if the club in question is in chins there should be chinese, once the club comes to america (or where ever) the flag is american. Is'nt that suppossed to be the deal? Allegence to the country you are in? I47MartialMan said:
The Kai said:
MOST of the TKD guys I've met couldn't fight. They had pretty kicks, but fighting was not their forte'. Of course, I'm not talking about the point sparring matches, but rather boxing gloves, free sparring.Old Fat Kenpoka said:
Danjo said:
now thats funnyDavidCC said:
DavidCC said:
Thanx for the compliment. That was the school I attended in the mid to late '70's. We were Gaylord method but Sigi left as a brown belt and eventually ended up under Joseph Bautista.Old Fat Kenpoka said:
I mean to you think that people, other than Korea, take Japan or France, whom practice TKD, many display the Korean Flag?The Kai said:
That's coming from someone who can see that this guy hasn't made one coherent argument to support his negative comments.Old Fat Kenpoka said:
Shaolin Kempo has been around a long time. It's a direct decendant of Kajukenbo. Kajukenbo black belt Sonny Gascon broke off and established Karazenpo Go Shinjitsu. One of his black belts, George Pesare went to New England and taught there. One of his black belts, Nick Cerio, taught Fred Villari who changed the name to Shaolin Kempo and taught it in his studios. Depending on when one learned it, and from whom one learned it, Shaolin Kempo is a very solid martial art. Unfortunately, most of what is taught these days is watered down in terms of the requirements for technical proficiency as it has become far too comercialized. That's what OFK meant when he said that about SK making fun of TKD (though I don't think that's what Dave was doing. I think he was saying that Michigan TKD was shown to be wrong about Kajukenbo). The solid Shaolin Kempo that's being taught now a days, is usually found in privately owned break off schools where they can be strict and not conflict with a larger organization that's more worried about making money than producing good students. You're all wet about Kajukenbo though. Those guys never compromised their standards.MichiganTKD said:
I think GM Castro was inspired by the naming of Tae Kwon Do, after all, wasn't Choi the one that heard the name Tae Kyonn from a Caligraphy teacher and with never having studied the art was so inspired named the Shotokan system he was studing Tang So Do (which is of course the Koran pronouncation of the Karate), which later would become Tae kwon DoMichiganTKD said:
SGM Castro is a Chow student, not a parker student.MichiganTKD said:
Not only that. Emperado has set his system up with the 9th degree Grandmasters. I'm sure he did it on purpose so that after his passing each Grandmaster has his own line and "no need for self promotion and infighting."Danjo said:
You've never heard of Shaolin Kempo? haha I don't know if that was an attempt to zing me or my style LOL it didn't work. If you count number of schools or number of students, it's in the top handful of popular styles in the US. It's just not that popular in the midwest. So, you having never heard of it tells more about you than about Shaolin Kempo.MichiganTKD said:
Not to be too nit-picky, but Pesare was only ever ranked to purple belt by Sijo Gascon. Well, later on, like in early 2000's, he was given some high dan rank... but when he moved from the west coast to east in the 70s he was a purple belt. Clearly a talented Martial Artist, don't get me wrong... but he was not a black belt when he started teaching (and promoting people) in New England.Danjo said:
