Take a step back

and look at why you do what you do. I am a Kenpo Specialist, an expert if you will :) But the more I look into other styles and systems, the more I appreciate what I have learned, and from whom. To me ( Insert Sly Stone song )Kenpo is a family affair. My father and uncle taught me from when I was a pup. I dont care what people say that Kenpo" should be." In my family it boils down to rapid fire striking from any angle. I know that what my Kenpo lacks in flash, it more than makes up for in substance. I have defended myself and my loved ones with Kenpo, and that is all that matters.

I love to compete, but my Kenpo is not about competition. Competing is fun, but it can lack in some subtle ways. Most people cannot get into the next level of their training, because to them, martial arts is synonymous with competing. Now, I also know how to FIGHT. Not just self-defense, but FIGHT. If as a grown man, I am drawn into a physical altercation I cannot get out of, I am okay with that. I know that I am prepared to go mentally to places that are normally only associated with sadists and psychopaths. I can kill you. I am not proud or ashamed to say it. If you physically threaten my mother, and I have a knife, I will kill you. If I had a child and his life was in danger, I will lose no sleep if I have to stab you in the heart with my knife. I know it sounds gruesome, but...it is what it is.

Anyhow, I am glad to be a part of my Kenpo family. I mean my real family. Not Ed Parker, Tatum, Spry, or any of those other "masters." In my family, it is always Kenpo For Life.