He doesn't do American kempo, it's okinawan kempo (pretty much just a traditional karate style) it has no connection to James mitose or the arts that descended from his style (which would be William KS chow's Kara ho kempo which ed parker learned and created american kempo)

@@gnos1s171 My mistake, you're right it is Okinawan Kempo for both Seth and his father (who is Seth's master).

@@gw1357 No problem, man, a lot of people get them confused.

Their "championship tournament" really showed that no one should be takin advice from any of them expect maybe jeff lol

when I studied Wing Tsun 30 years ago, even after 5 years I wasn't even allowed to touch the dummy...

All depends on the teacher and the school a d how they were teaching at that time. Chu shong tin would let you walk in on day one and try anything you wanted, but he would also just laugh at you if you picked something stupid you aren't ready to do. Like the dummy or the long pole and so on.

But in reality within any martial art you legitimately would spend several years doing other things before you ever reached that point. We did mostly just stance training, forms and developmental exercises, qi gong exercises etc for 2-3 years.

That is because in most schools, the dummy is only for decoration.

It was used daily but you had to be at a certain level

Barry Lee is a name everyone in Wing-Chun should know, yet most do not.

I also would like him to review Grandmaster Wan Kam Leung

Dave! How the hell are you!?

I'm good my friend. It's good to see you in my feed!

Just speaking for my own lineages, we have the uppercut in 2nd form and my current teacher used a movement from 3d form as a hook. A former teacher, Bagua background, told me not to be too literal in interpreting forms, a "block" can be a strike and vice versa, but think of the forms as training your body to move and express kinetic energy for any purpose, block, strike, throw, grapple/chin-na... that's view had helped me develop my Wing Chun.

​@@Spikebert you can trust that Bagua fellow. Forms are meant to showcase the essence of the art, traing the practitioner's mind and body, allow the practitoner to easily memorize certain things that may become useful later and teach them how to generate power in many different ways. Depending on the martial art, some of these things may not be true, and some others might be added. For example, martial arts like Kenjutsu do have forms that are meant to teach you how to fight! Some other martial arts like Judo or Aikido have forms in which 2 or more practitioners are present and so on... But those are the general rules. Forms traing your body (like how some forms will make you hold certain stances that make your legs stronger), teach you what the style is about (For example, Xing Yi quan's forms show explosive power that goes straight into the opponent, you are supposed to use the art like that, kinda), train your mind and character (constantly practicing a form will teach you about self perfection, discipline and other things), will give you body coordination (self explanatory) and will teach you to generate power in many ways: Bagua palm changes teach how to generate power vertically, horizontally and diagonally while moving around, also teaches about redirecting energy Xing Yi teaches how to give different properties to what would otherwise be the same technique or almost the same plus teaches you about creating power in different directions while moving forward, also teaches about redirecting energy Bajiquan's forms teach you how to generate power by sinking down as you perform your technique plus teaches you about some other things that the other 2 arts do And so on so forth. The moves in the forms are (generally) not supposed to be applied directly to fighting

Sifu Alan is my sifu as well. Were you at the flatbush school ?

I believe he was referring to breathing and breath cardio heart rate stamina that kind of thing

@@jarrodpelrine7229 indeed, that's what I'd like to hear more about! :)

The dummy was definitely NOT meant to harden your arms 😭

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