Kembudo-Kai Kempoka
Senior Master
Mr. Parker was constantly modifying and changing the technical cirriculum for kenpo, his active mind always looking for deeper and more multiplicated applications of techniques.
Some of the old break-aways even quoted their reasosn for leaving as "I didn't want to re-learn the entire systems requirements for the third time", and the like.
I've seen comments in threads where folks insist that a lack of absolute faith in EPAK to have all the answers reflects a lack of understanding the depths of kenpo. IMHO, this reflects a blind faith that SGM had created a final, perfect product, with no room for change or improvement. I believe...and I have no hard evidence to back it up, just my own views...that if Mr. Parker had not been taken so soon, we would have seen one, maybe two more "re-writes" of kenpo before simple aging returned him to the stars.
Was denkst du? Is kenpo a perfect, finished product? Had SGM Parker reached the limits of his creative and rational abilities with the "final edit" of AK we were left with?
Dr. Dave
Some of the old break-aways even quoted their reasosn for leaving as "I didn't want to re-learn the entire systems requirements for the third time", and the like.
I've seen comments in threads where folks insist that a lack of absolute faith in EPAK to have all the answers reflects a lack of understanding the depths of kenpo. IMHO, this reflects a blind faith that SGM had created a final, perfect product, with no room for change or improvement. I believe...and I have no hard evidence to back it up, just my own views...that if Mr. Parker had not been taken so soon, we would have seen one, maybe two more "re-writes" of kenpo before simple aging returned him to the stars.
Was denkst du? Is kenpo a perfect, finished product? Had SGM Parker reached the limits of his creative and rational abilities with the "final edit" of AK we were left with?
Dr. Dave