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How is Kenpo 5.0 different vancement and advice, peo- 5.0 system. From the distance
from Kenpo Karate? ple like Steve LaBounty, John it looks like a controlled MMA
Sepulveda and Bob White to fight with a few exceptions.
Kenpo 5.0 is the execution of name a few. Howev- Those are no striking to the
the mandate set forth by Ed er I travel all over the face, the groin is a full con-
Parker in many of his teach- world and see that tact target, and the tap out is
ings and writings since its Kenpo is fragmented not the end of the fight. It is
inception. And that man- and not adapting to the only thing you can earn 3
date is that Kenpo evolve the current state of af- points on. Below brown belt it
and change over time to fairs of the world and is a single 2 minute round of
adapt to the changing en- needed to separate continuous fighting
vironment and situation of myself from it, so the both stand up
current street defense. In or- Kenpo 5.0 family was and ground. If
der to answer that mandate born. We now en- you are brown
it was necessary for Kenpo joy a very hard and above it is
to adapt to current earned a single 2
ground fight- minute
ing application.
The overwhelm-
ing and obvious
current street
conflict would
definitely include
an applicable and
working knowledge
of ground fighting
for Kenpo to remain in
the position of “ultimate
street defense” that It al-
ways enjoyed in years
past. In that endeavor it round with
was necessary to care- a 1 min-
fully evaluate the appli- ute rest and
cation of the art against a 1 minute
the “new threat” on the round. We be-
street today. So the continu- lieve we have
ing endeavor to adapt Kenpo the system of
the new threat of a trained martial arts
MMA fighter in the street is completion for
really what Kenpo 5.0 is all the future of all
about. I chose to remove the arts. Everyone
word Karate from the phrase is welcome to
Kenpo because in the ensu- compete with
ing years following the tragic us in this are-
loss of Mr. Parker I saw clear- na and now we
ly the down fall of the exist- have and an-
ing structure and I just didn’t status of fr anc hise nual Australia/
want to be associated with Jeff Speakman Kenpo 5.0 New Zealand
most of what I saw happening schools in 19 countries and national cham-
in the Kenpo world. Of course growing. pionship, a Eu-
there are still many pockets of ropean national
outstanding groups of practi- wHat is tHe 5.0 figHter championship,
tioners in Kenpo Karate, and system all about? a South Ameri-
those people have been and can Champion-
remain now my dear friends The 5.0 Fighter system is a di- ship all culmi-
and seniors I look to for ad- rect outgrowth of the Kenpo nating in a World

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