I train in EPAK because
1. Its practical. Its based on realistic attacks and responses
2. Its natural. Once you get to a point, you find yourself flowing very naturally from one motion to the next. (I discovered myself at this stage yesterday when I accidentally grafted the end of crossing talons onto the beginning of grip of death and found that it actually worked)
3. It works. Every time I've needed it to, except once, its worked. If anything, it gives you the instinct to move rather than stand there and panic, because when you see a punch coming at you, it isn't a new thing, and you know how to move, and shed, and parry and block.
I did take TKD for a time, but it was because I couldn't find kenpo nearby. I found a lot of the TKD principles directly contradicted many of the kenpo principles, and many of the reasons I chose kenpo, so it did make things difficult, but it was MA, so I stuck it out til green belt, then went back to kenpo (got a car, so I could drive to kenpo instead of walk to TKD) and promptly forgot all of my TKD. I'm a kenpoist at heart, I guess.
-N-
1. Its practical. Its based on realistic attacks and responses
2. Its natural. Once you get to a point, you find yourself flowing very naturally from one motion to the next. (I discovered myself at this stage yesterday when I accidentally grafted the end of crossing talons onto the beginning of grip of death and found that it actually worked)
3. It works. Every time I've needed it to, except once, its worked. If anything, it gives you the instinct to move rather than stand there and panic, because when you see a punch coming at you, it isn't a new thing, and you know how to move, and shed, and parry and block.
I did take TKD for a time, but it was because I couldn't find kenpo nearby. I found a lot of the TKD principles directly contradicted many of the kenpo principles, and many of the reasons I chose kenpo, so it did make things difficult, but it was MA, so I stuck it out til green belt, then went back to kenpo (got a car, so I could drive to kenpo instead of walk to TKD) and promptly forgot all of my TKD. I'm a kenpoist at heart, I guess.
-N-
