Christian Kenpo Fellowship

03/15/2022

Finally got some pictures for Sigung Dennis Stewart

02/06/2022

Here begins a critical look at the Self-Defense Patterns of Christian Kenpo

As I go through the patterns, there will be new terms that are temporary until or unless a better term is used.

This series should be looked at as a Christian Kenpo Wiki.

Clark

01/31/2022

Inside and Over the Line of Entry – these two lines are linked so closely that their descriptions are combined.
Inside the Line is important to keep the opponent from accessing your target zones that you have left open while covering others. Unlike On the Line, Inside the Line contacts the opponents' arms and legs.
Over the Line of Entry is a shift of weight and a stance change, or posture change, that pushes, pins, but always checks off the opponents' actions. Over the Line can also be a knee strike to keep the opponent from rising up to the feet after you have knocked them down.

Skip to 32:48 TO SEE what Chris does with this right leg and foot.

https://youtu.be/sFgjD-ipIKo?t=1896

Inside and Over the Line of Entry is used in the Christian Kenpo Pattern, Obscure Kimono. It is an equalizer when done properly when big grabs little from slightly behind.

I hope you enjoy the videos that were meant to be shared and the topics discussed. The point is not to teach the patterns a whole, but to highlight those small Snippets of Actions that are the lesson with the pattern. As always, your results may vary. LOL

Clark

Professors Cole and Stewart walk through the last 3 techniques in yellow belt.

01/31/2022

On the Line of Entry – any position or posture that puts one or more of your limbs in front of and in the way of your opponent’s easy access to them. We do this to make the opponent go around those limbs, denying the direct line to them.

While training both self-defense and sparring patterns Christian Kenpo divides the body in to 3 zones, Height, Width and Depth. On the Line of Entry obscures your vital target areas. Your front hand is up at your chin level, in horizontal zone 1 to make the opponent go through or around it, or, by using stance changes to thwart that tactic and use your eyes to track to the target. The same thing applies to the back hand and the legs. The back hand covers the kidneys and the liver from direct line or path of attacks.

Christian Kenpo uses the photos of Frank Trejo in various defensive fighting postures from book 3 of the Infinite Insights series as our guide to the topic of On the Line of Entry.
I said defensive postures not fighting stances because we switch through various postures that are intended to hide our intent when sparring. Postures change constantly whether sparring or defending oneself.

Related conceptual methods:
Zones of the body
1. Horizontal, from the top of the head to the Xiphoid Process.
2. Horizontal, from the Solar plexus to the groin.
3. Horizontal, from the bladder to the feet.
Zone 2 wraps around the side to access the kidneys with a hooking action of the hands or feet.
Zone 3 overlaps Zone 2 to kick above the groin to the bladder.

Related conceptual methods,
Weapons to Targets Vocabulary
A) The front hand is designated number 1that hits the top horizontal zone.
B) The back hand is designated number 2 that hits the middle zone primarily, and occasionally into horizontal zone 1.
C) Both feet are designated number 3 that contact the top of horizontal zone 3, the entirety of zone 2 and rarely top zone 1.

All of this will be thwarted by the strategic placement and postures that get in the opponents' way to hitting your targets. Look closely at the Line and Paths of Action involved in a basic upward block. Specifically the downward return motion. Can you say Collapsible Deflection?

Clark

01/31/2022

Post Modern and Christian Kenpo define Line of Entry this way.

Line of Entry - the strategic use of your Weapons to Targets Vocabulary, and Sophisticated Foot Maneuvers.

Weapons to Targets Vocabulary - the basic punches, kicks and strikes that are used to your advantage while practicing the sequential flow of a Self-Defense Pattern, or the sparring patterns that are adapted from those SD Patterns.

Sophisticated Foot Maneuvers - ant foot maneuver that is combined from the Basic Foot Maneuvers and Foot Maneuver Methods as seen in the Christian Kenpo Sparring Manual.

A Line of Entry can be seen with your eyes, or with the weapon itself when the limbs of the opponent obscure them. When we teach sparring, we assign numbers (123) to the hands and feet, this is the first half of the Weapons to Targets Vocabulary. The second part is assigning numbers (again 123) to the striking zones of the body.

The sparring concept of 'Window of Opportunity' is one way to present a 'SEEN' target that is intentional. Each CK Instructor 'opens' temporary Windows of Opportunity for students during live sparring.

Self Defense Patterns use the concept of Contouring the body to hit targets that the eye cannot see, but the mind knows are accessible. It's almost as if the fist knows that it can contour, with a closed fist, up the opponent's back to strike the Mastoid or base of the skull.

A Line of Entry dependent upon being in close proximity, the relevant ranges are Contact Pe*******on and Contact Manipulation ranges.
I am constantly amazed at how many things are happening and the sheer number of concepts that are inter-related when working Patterns be they self-defense or sparring.

Clark

01/27/2022

Post 4

Contact Manipulation – here we take a less traveled path and stress open hand manipulation rather than grasping hand manipulation. The concept of Push/Pull shows how leverage and fulcruming are used to follow up the previous range. Environment now comes fully back in to play. As you manipulate the opponent, your sense of touch allows you to ‘feel what is on you, you ability to control your breathing is that thing that is in you, and any secondary attacker is what is around you.

The same video that taught Attacking Mace can be viewed from the beginning because Mace of Aggression IS Contact Manipulation entirely.

https://youtu.be/sFgjD-ipIKo?t=36

I will let the video speak for itself.

This has been a fun project for me because the ability to embed video has been something I have wanted to add to my lectures. If not for Chris and I walking through the PMK patterns I would not be talking about this stuff.

Next, the Four Lines of Entry, then after that, the relationship of Ranges and Lines.

Clark Cole

Professors Cole and Stewart walk through the last 3 techniques in yellow belt.