The Five Swords Kenpo Karate Technique

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Summary: Learn the Five Swords Kenpo karate technique in this free American Kenpo martial arts training video.

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Joe Palanzo Joe Palanzo is a tenth degree black belt in Kenpo, and has operated a successful martial arts school in Baltimore,MD since 1969. He has long enjoyed an intern... read more

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The Five Swords Kenpo Karate Technique

Hi! I am Joe Palanzo from the World Wide Kenpo Karate Association in conjunction with Expert Village. This technique demonstrated is called five swords and it is the demonstration of how to defending. It is right round house punch. The first move is stepping inside the round house using two hands, striking higher on the arm with the hand sword or the hammer fists, immediately going to the side of the neck and chopping. This acts as a sliding check. We are going to go to a foward bow and poke him in the eye. As we stretch him back, we are going to change back to a horse stance and drive a punch to the solar plexus, positioning this hand here so as his head falls forward; it actually falls into this hand sword to the throat, checking the shoulder, chopping to the side of the neck. Now one of the interesting things about Kenpo Karate is the three elements of self defense technique. This was the ideal stage. The what if stage is, is as I go to do my second move, if it was blocked, blocked here I would not be able to do it. So I would take and change this and use this move here, the third move as my offense and I continue with the combination as planned. Let us go further, let us say that I manage to get the first two moves in, and as I go to do the third move, he punches I need to change from the face to the arm so I went from offense to defense and I can continue my combination. If we went through the first three moves, at this point as I want to punch here he punched to my face as the punch came in the left hand, coming back to do the check. If the punch came low, this punch going into the solar plexus, on top of his arm could d the check. Now the next move is a hand sword. So if I have gone through the first four moves and as I step off the side he punches at my face, the blocking hand picks it up. If he punched with the other hand, the chop would go here and the block actually hits and then I would finish. So the techniques are very flexible and allow the ability to change as needed. This technique is five swords.

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