Sacramento Martial Arts

Not necessarily OUR version, but it is A version:

1. CLUTCHING FEATHERS (front left hand hair grab)

• 1. Standing naturally, step back with your left foot (into a right neutral bow), simultaneously pin opponent's left hand (to your head) with your left hand as you deliver a right middle finger fist to opponent's left armpit (have your fist strike vertically).
• 2. While in a right neutral bow, strike to the inside of your opponent's left arm with first a left inward and then a right outward block as your left hand immediately continues its course of action and cocks to your left hip.
• 3. Shift to a right forward bow as you deliver a left heel thrust to opponent's jaw. Simultaneously convert your right outward block into an extended outward block, keeping your right extended outward block in place for protection, as well as in position for the next move.
• 4. Immediately shift into a right neutral bow as you deliver a right raking knuckle strike to bridge of opponent's nose. Without any loss of momentum pivot into a right reverse bow while continuing your right hand in a counter clockwise circle, slightly changing the orbit, and convert it into a right downward hammer fist to opponent's groin.
• 5. From the right reverse bow deliver a right rear scoop kick to your opponent's testicles.
• 6. Right from the kick go into a right front crossover and cover out twice.

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American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem.  We teach Sacramento Martial Arts and Amy Long is putting together another copy volume of the Kenpo Continuum.

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 Thanksgiving is Over!

Now on to Christmas!

Time Flies when you are having fun!

KENPO 101 –

Borrowed Force - An opponent's force which is used to defeat him. This can be accomplished by going with the opponent's force or, upon occasion, going against his force. The concept allows your opponent's force to enhance the effectiveness of your action.
Borrowed Reach - You can have Borrowed Reach without Borrowed Force, but not the other way around. Use Borrowed Reach to get Borrowed Force. A kick to the groin, gives you Borrowed Reach (bends attacker over and gets them closer to us) but we don't get Borrowed Force until you follow the kick with a strike.

SKK Monthly Update –

To everyone in our children class, I would like to extend our thanks. I really appreciate your patience and understanding.

We would like to welcome, Yevgeny, to our class.

Our adult class has just picked up a wonderful couple, Ed and Lee Anne. Please say hello, if you have not.

Please note, if you have paid Cordova Recreation and Park District, bring in your receipt to confirm that they have you on their roster. Lately, they have been hit and miss on recording students who have paid.

SKK REMINDERS

• All students must wear a karate uniform or workout clothes. Male students must wear a groin protector.
• Hygiene is a good thing. Please make sure your karate uniform is clean, finger and toe nails are trimmed, and remove jewelry in class. These reminders are for the safety of your fellow students. Thank you.
• Please, let us know by phone or e-mail if you cannot show up for class.
• Ms. Long’s information
• Cell – 916-690-1682
• Email – kenpokaratechick@gmail.com
• Mr. Nakamoto’s information
• Cell – 916-832-2882
• Email – ronnak4967@gmail.com
• Dues paid by the 10^th of every month.
• We charge a $10.00 belt fee for all belt promotions.
• The SKK patch is on sale for $10.00 each or $16.00 for two.
• Karate uniforms range from $20.00 to $25.00 depending on size.

American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.     

Sacramento Kenpo Karate

Lee Wedlake at Graham Lelliott's Kenpo School
Hello All!

Just a quick note to tell you all that you're doing a terrific job. I thought I'd throw out a few pictures from Lee Wedlake's seminar held at Graham Lelliott's in Fresno. Ron was there too, but I couldn't seem to get him to pose for any pictures!

Gary Arnold at Lee Wedlake's Seminar

Working on Long Three

Amy, Pete and SukYee

Amy and Suk Yee

Amy and Graham

Amy and Lee 2010

American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.     

Sacramento Martial Arts

November 2010

Upcoming Seminars for this Saturday Nov. 6, 2010 are:

Lee Wedlake seminar @ Graham Lelliots – 2139 Shaw ave, Suite E8 Clovis, CA 93612

John Sepulveda seminar @ Sher Khan – 8936 Elk Grove Blvd. Elk Grove, CA 95624

KENPO 101 –

Economy of Motion - Any movement that takes less time to execute and still causes the intended effect.

SKK Monthly Update –

Woohoo! We promoted Gianah to yellow belt, she definitely earned it. If you have not congratulated her please do so. Our children class is very large 18 +/- students. I really appreciate everyone's patience. I am trying to get to all of you parents at one point or another to let you know how well they are doing.  

We have 3 new adult students starting up with us, if you have not met Jona, Mark, and John please introduce yourselves.

Please note, if you have paid Cordova Recreation and Park District, bring in your receipt to confirm that they have you on their roster. Lately, they have been hit and miss on recording students who have paid.

SKK REMINDERS

• All students must wear a karate uniform or workout clothes. Male students must wear a groin protector.
• Hygiene is a good thing. Please make sure your karate uniform is clean, finger and toe nails are trimmed, and do not wear jewelry in class. These reminders are for the safety of your fellow students. Thank you.
• Let us know by phone or e-mail if you cannot show up for class.
• Ms. Long's information
• Cell – 916-690-1682
• Email – kenpokaratechick@gmail.com
• Mr. Nakamoto's information
• Cell – 916-832-2882
• Email – ronnak4967@gmail.com
• Dues paid by the 10^th of every month.
• We charge a $10.00 belt fee for all belt promotions.
• The SKK patch is on sale for $10.00 each or $16.00 for two.
• Karate uniforms range from $20.00 to $25.00 depending on size.

American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.     

Sacramento Kenpo Karate

October 2010

Yayyy!!!! Instructor AMY LONG has been promoted to 3^rd Degree Black, a full instructor of the arts. Please congratulate her, if you have not. Gary Arnold has been promoted to Green and Morgan Shaw was promoted to Yellow belt, make sure you congratulate them as well.

Ask us about upcoming seminars.

KENPO 101 –

Lemniscate (Lemniscate of Bernoulli)–

Most of us recognize this symbol as the infinity symbol, a figure 8, and in some cases as the ouroboros. This symbol has been at the forefront of our training lately.

Torque -

"Moment" is the general term for the tendency of one or more applied forces to rotate an object about an axis (the concept which in physics is called torque). Rotational analogues of force, mass, and acceleration are torque, moment of inertia, and angular acceleration, respectively.(Taken from Wikipedia)

SKK Monthly Update –

Wow! Our children's class is growing. We are now up to 18 children. If you have not had a chance to say hello to our new children, please do so. SKK would like to thank Tyler1, James, Matthew, Gianah, and Joshua for their help in class.

We have a handful of students out there that have not shown their bright and cheery faces these past few weeks or even months. You know who you are, and know that you are missed.

SKK REMINDERS

• All students must wear a karate uniform or workout clothes. Male students must wear a groin protector.
• Hygiene is a good thing. Please make sure your karate uniform is clean, finger and toe nails are trimmed, and do not wear jewelry in class. These reminders are for the safety of your fellow students. Thank you.
• Let us know by phone or e-mail if you cannot show up for class.
• Ms. Long's information
• Cell – 916-690-1682
• Email – kenpokaratechick@gmail.com
• Mr. Nakamoto's information
• Cell – 916-832-2882
• Email – ronnak4967@gmail.com
• Dues paid by the 10^th of every month.
• We charge a $10.00 belt fee for all belt promotions.
• The SKK patch is on sale for $10.00 each or $16.00 for two.
• Karate uniforms range from $20.00 to $25.00 depending on size.

American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.     

Sacramento Martial Arts

Graham Lelliott's Kenpo Camp May 2011 Not only did I receive it, I'm posting for all to see.  This is a terrific camp with some of the warmest people I've ever encountered.  We will absolutely be there if finances allow.  Well worth the money. Hi Amy, Just letting everyone know that we will be doing the camp Wonder Valley again next year in May 2011.  It would be great to see you and if you can pass the word around i would be very grateful. I am sending you an attachment of a poster that you could possibly use to advertise the event at your Dojo.  Also if you click on the website www.glkenpo.com there is information on the event, but you will need to register an interest via the Jot-form on the site. This does not lock you into any financial obligations until such time as we will require a deposit. Im sure you can appreciate that the room space is limited, so an earlier response would help my wife Jaydean tremendously. The Jot-form will go directly to her from this link and she will correspond with you. I would appreciate that you would send myself a reply acknowledging that you have received this email at glkenpo@hotmail.com . Take care and be safe. Graham American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.

Sacramento Kenpo Karate

KENPO 101 –

Shuffle –

Shifting the body forward and back to close or increase the distance between you and your opponent.  In Kenpo there are four methods that accomplish this: push drag, drag step, step drag, and pull drag.

SKK Monthly Update –

Please say hi to James, Alyssa, and Rodney Jr. our newest members to SKK children's class. Kudos go out to Alex, Matthew, James G, Joshua and Gianah for their continued attendance and enthusiasm in class. Keep up the good work! It is really a pleasure working with you guys.

SKK would like to welcome Brian to our adult class, if you have not had a chance please welcome him to the SKK family. It is always a pleasure to see Morgan, Bryan H., Andy and Jessica in class, you guys are doing excellent. We would like to extend a very warm thank you to Bryan P., and Eugene for their support and help with all of our students. Gary, Jeff and Ron S continue to show improvement.

We have a handful of students out there that have not shown their bright and cheery faces these past few weeks or even months. You know who you are, and know that you are missed.

SKK REMINDERS

• All students must wear a karate uniform or workout clothes. Male students must wear a groin protector.
• Hygiene is a good thing. Please make sure your karate uniform is clean, finger and toe nails are trimmed, and do not wear jewelry in class. These reminders are for the safety of your fellow students. Thank you.
• Let us know by phone or e-mail if you cannot show up for class.
• Ms. Long's information
• Cell – 916-690-1682
• Email – kenpokaratechick@gmail.com
• Mr. Nakamoto's information
• Cell – 916-832-2882
• Email – ronnak4967@gmail.com
• Dues paid by the 10^th of every month.
• We charge a $10.00 belt fee for all belt promotions.
• The SKK patch is on sale for $10.00 each or $16.00 for two. 

American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.     

Wonder Valley Camp

This is happening in May of 2011. We hope to be attending! American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.

Sacramento Martial Arts

AUGUST 21 – BELL'S KENPO KARATE IN FRESNO, CA IS HOSTING THE "TIGER'S DEN". MOHAMAD TABATABAI, RICHARD HALE, AND DAVE CROUCH ARE THE INSTRUCTORS. TIME IS YET TBD.

YAYYY! AMY AND I ARE BACK FROM VACATION.

KENPO 101 –

Inward Parry –

A blocking method (usually with an open hand) that requires your blocking arm to travel from outside in as it redirects a blow or kick by riding or going with the force.

Toe-Heel –

Method of determining the proper width of a neutral bow stance where the toe of the forward foot is in line with the heel of the rear foot.

 

SKK NEWS – HELLO!!

SKK children's class continues to grow. We are currently up to 14 students for our children's class. Yayyyyyyyyyy!!!! To the students who have been there for more than 2 months, please introduce yourselves (if you haven't already) and show them the SKK hospitality.

Our adult class is getting back to its former glory, slowly but surely. It is nice to see Gary and Michael back. Bryan, Eugene and Jeff continue to be our mainstays. Ron and Rob have been busy with life situations but it is good to see them. We really enjoy Bryan and Jessica's enthusiasm for Kenpo, you guys are a delight to teach. We now have Morgan who has prior experience with a similar Kenpo style. It is going to be a pleasure working with him.  Just want you'all to know that it is a pleasure to teach, work and in some cases learn from you guys. Thank you!

SKK REMINDERS

• All students must wear a karate uniform or workout clothes. Male students must wear a groin protector.
• Hygiene is a good thing. Please make sure your karate uniform is clean, finger and toe nails are trimmed, and do not wear jewelry in class. These reminders are for the safety of your fellow students. Thank you.
• Let us know by phone or e-mail if you cannot show up for class.
• Ms. Long's information
• Cell – 916-690-1682
• Email – kenpokaratechick@gmail.com
• Mr. Nakamoto's information
• Cell – 916-832-2882
• Email – ronnak4967@gmail.com
• Dues paid by the 10^th of every month.
• We charge a $10.00 belt fee for all belt promotions.
• The SKK patch is on sale for $10.00 each or $16.00 for two.

American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.     

Sacramento Martial Arts

Dennis Conatser Seminar

HEADS UP EVERYONE – DENNIS CONATSER IS GOING TO GIVE US AN IMPROMPTU CLASS ON JULY 8^TH, 2010 – MATHER SPORTS FACILITY BETWEEN 7:15 AND 7:30 – WE ARE ASKING FOR A $25.00 DOLLAR DONATION AT THE DOOR. PLEASE COME SEE AND LEARN FROM ONE OF THE TOP AMERICAN KENPOIST AROUND.

ALSO – BOTH AMY AND I ARE GOING ON VACATION FROM JULY 16^TH TO JULY 30^TH WE WILL BE UP NORTH AT THE R-RANCH.

KENPO 101 –

The 3 Stages of learning –

Embryonic: You know nothing about karate and are just beginning to learn the basic steps involved in techniques and forms.

Mechanical: You understand the mechanics of running techniques, but not necessarily the flow between techniques and you can't react instinctively to an attack.

Spontaneous: You understand both the mechanics of running techniques and how they flow together. You properly react to an attack without thinking.

Torque –

Twisting and rotating action used to position your body and muscles to work at maximum efficiency.

SKK NEWS

Hello!

It appears that I did not post a blog for the month of June. Oops! I apologize for that little mishap.

SKK wants to congratulate both Matthew and James they were promoted to yellow belt on June 10, 2010. (please forgive me if I have the dates wrong)

SKK children's class has grown in the past month. Please welcome Adam, Jaden, Jonathan, Austin, and Giana to our school. We also want to throw out a "Hello!" to both Tyler M. and James G., they are both out of town and we do miss them, hurry back guys. Thanks to Alex, Matthew and Travis for being outstanding students, as well as, helpers for their instructors.

Our adult class is starting to shape up again. Please welcome Jessica Nguyen and Bryan Hill to the class. It is good to have Jeff Lane, Michael Cole and Rob Fillpot back in class.  Bryan P and Eugene are still gracing us with their presence. Everyone please keep up the awesome enthusiasm and lets keep it fun.

REMINDERS:

• All students must wear a karate uniform or workout clothes. Male students must wear a groin protector.
• Hygiene is a good thing. Please make sure your karate uniform is clean, finger and toe nails are trimmed, and do not wear jewelry in class. These reminders are for the safety of your fellow students. Thank you.
• Let us know by phone or e-mail if you cannot show up for class.
• Ms. Long's information
• Cell – 916-690-1682
• Email – kenpokaratechick@gmail.com
• Mr. Nakamoto's information
• Cell – 916-832-2882
• Email – ronnak4967@gmail.com
• Dues paid by the 10^th of every month.
• We charge a $10.00 belt fee for all belt promotions.
• The SKK patch is on sale for $10.00 each or $16.00 for two.

American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.