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Why isn't Paul Mills Kenpo System worthy of his name. I know he's changed, forms, sets, and techniques for his guys... and they seem to work rather well for them. Why should Ed Parker accept responsibility for Mr. Mill's innovations?
From what he has told me, he doesn't feel comfortable claiming Kenpo as his. I think he likes thinking of what we do in the AKKI as belonging to the association. We simply call it AKKI Kenpo. It is kenpo the way the AKKI chooses to practice it. We don't call it EPAK. It is not EPAK (exactly what Mr. Parker taught at his death) but as similar to EPAK as it is different.
Certainly, Mr. Parker's place is special. But if you really know Kenpo you realize that "EPAK" is an evolution of what Chow taught Mr. Parker and Mr. Parker taught the Tracy's. Mr. Parker innovated and changed and created and organized. But Delayed Sword is in the Tracy system, it is in EPAK and it is in AKKI Kenpo. So many of the EPAK techniques, forms, etc. are borrowed directly from "traditional kenpo" as enshrined by the Tracy organization, or borrowed with little variation, that I often have a hard time seeing any lines between traditional kenpo, EPAK and my own AKKI, where one ends and the other begins.
Long answer to a short question.
Derek