KEMPO FUNDAMENTALS

The detailed educations will provide more than you may ever want to know about each of the stances, but you can’t say that we weren’t thorough!

This is your most foundational stance.  Pay attention to the detail here to set yourself up for success in the rest of your stances!

Loading your weight to one leg allows for explosive movement out of the stance while simultaneously leaving your front leg free to kick very quickly.

One of the more traditional stances, the Forward Stance is great for building strength in the legs as well as developing power in your strikes.

The most frequently used movement, the half moon is one of the foundational pieces of a large majority of your material requirements.

The Side Shuffle is an excellent tool to defend and counterattack while keeping your most vulnerable target areas away from your opponent.

The box step allows us to close the distance on our opponent while moving around their attack.

Learning to roll safely is an extremely important skill to develop.  Make sure to keep your body tucked tightly to ensure a smooth roll.

Learning how to fall safely is not only critical for Self-Defense, but for everyday life as well.

Side Slap Outs are important if you happen to fall on your side vs on your back (which utilizes the regular slap out).

A proper forward recovery allows you to keep you hands up while getting back to your feet.

The tactical recovery moves backwards instead of forwards.  This one is not a rolling motion.

Shuffling by itself may seem like no big deal. However the goal is to successfully coordinate the footwork with well placed strikes and kicks.

Hinge Steps are critical moves to quickly get you out of harm’s way and effectively blocking, striking, and kicking will further ensure your success should you have to use this move.

Step Drags are an integral movement that will allow you to advance while being able to strike.

The pull drag is a difficult motion to develop, but you want to be able to do it off both the lead and rear legs.

These strikes are your foundation for developing good technique with all of your future strikes.

The intermediate strikes start to incorporate more circular strikes along with more open handed variations.

The advanced strikes tend to target more vital areas.

These are the initial 8 blocks that include outward, inward, upward and downward.  

Being able to pair blocks together on a single arm is critical for developing speed, timing and fluidity with your blocking.  

Off counters are strikes thrown with the hand that is not blocking.  

On counters are thrown from the same hand that does that block and they start from where the block finished.  

Combo counters simply refers to blending both the Off and On Counters.  

Open blocking means to use an open hand variation rather than a closed fist version of the block.  

The 10 Point Blocking system uses two hand for each block.  This principal creates a decision point in each block thus making it very versatile.  

Similar to the standard 8 blocks, these Off Counters are also done with an open hand strike.  

These counters are all done with open handed strikes as well. 

The combination of the Off and On Counters continues with the open variations.  

Never before released, the Elbow 8 Point system works the same model of blocking as the standard 8 point systems, but from a much closer range.  Each of the counter strikes is also an elbow strike variation.  

Just like the other On Counters, these are all elbow counter strikes.  

The order of Off then On allows for a simultaneous Off Counter while executing the block.  

This game helps in developing your reflexes.

Learn a number of ways to take your opponent down to the ground.

Need to take them down with a little more authority?  These ones get your opponent off the ground before they slam into the ground!

This section covers each of the three primary wristlock variations.

Being able to quickly fire off complex strike combinations after your block creates much faster reaction times as well as developing your accuracy.

Having solid footwork and sound fundamentals with your kicks will help in developing your reflexes to kick in any direction in an instant.

You don’t always get to start in an ideal way so mixing up your approach to your techniques creates reflexes that otherwise may not get developed.

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This three strike combo can be mixed and matched to create a variety of reflex training drills.