American Kenpo Explored - When Jerry Met Donnie Jeffcoat (2015) 

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I remember when I was training under Wong Fei-Hung, he used to get me drunk on rice and plum wine because he told me it would give me strength to take on 200 men from the Axe Gang with a ginseng root. Though I never came across anyone from the Axe Gang, let alone 200 of them, I did become a raging alcoholic and needed a liver transplant by age 12. So there's that.

I'm a 2nd Degree Black Belt in American Kenpo and studied it for 10 years. It has its fair share of impractical techniques that would almost never work in the street or against a skilled opponent, but it does have enough tools in its curriculum to teach you how to protect yourself against real danger. It's a fun mix of both traditional and modern in my opinion :)

Donnie Jeffcoat and Kenpo Karate - two parts of my childhood in one video. Thanks for uploading, this is great!

By the way I really enjoy your videos specially the actual fight commentaries it's really fun following along

I've been watching your stuff since you were pretty low in subs and I gotta say that you have improved a lot. I'm enjoying your stuff more than ever Jerry, keep it up!!

This was great, brings back memories of when I took Kenpo years ago. I still do knuckle pushups sometimes :)

Mr. Jeffcoat is a very kind and skilled Kenpoist. Full salute to him.

Kenpo is freaking cool dude! Great street self defense Martial Art! I did it for about 2 years. Now my main focus is Judo with lots of emphasis on Newaza. I was lucky enough to get a Japanese instructor that trained in Kosen Judo in Japan.

This was great. More like this please

Love ur channel... Fight commentary breakdance!!!

this is great! share more about the shaolin kenpo

7:09 YOU GUYS REMEMBER THE PERFECT WEAPON WITH JEFF SPEAKMAN? I WANTED TO GET INTO KENPO JUST BECAUSE OF THAT MOVIE!

Dear comment section and Fight Commentary Breakdown, I am intrested in your honest opinion of Americain Kenpo karate on its legitimacy, practicality and effectiveness as a street self defense, a martial art and as an entry into MMA? To all who reply, thank you and can't wait to see what you think

There they are, sitting in Seiza. It takes some getting used to. Sankaku Dai Gang.

I'm mainly shocked that Jerry is probably about my age

Saludos desde Paraguay!!

Do you guys ever watch Active Self Protection channel on RU-vid??? Great channel. Presents video of actual violent encounters. Very educational.

Please tell us more! I would like to see what happened to this art

Seriously I’ve always wanted to do kenpo because of the movie perfect weapon with Jeff speakman.

Sorry for the digression from the video, but this morning i discovered something real with the wing chun chain punches, in boxing they call that shoe shining, and i just thought it was fascinating that its a technique that has merit, although its not the same exactly, its still eerily similar, and effective, im about to start drilling for the shoe shine lol sorry youre probably the only person i could have told this who would care lol maybe not, i just thought it was worth sharing 🙏 i just grabbed this from my notifications instead of trying to find the right video to comment on lol

Yeah. Go back there. That would be cool.

Yo Jerry , my friend said he read from Chinese social media that Yilong is trying to challenge Mike Tyson loooool. Check that out

I commented this Chael Sonnen esc rap about Jerry a while ago. Maybe it counts as a poem. Jerry, dressin like an Asian star with that Chinese charm! Kung Fu ambassador and commentating muscular hustler! The man with the Gucci who the girls wanna smoochy! The mean lean machine behind the clean screen breaking down routines and scenes, bringing the fight to the ground, it’s fight commentary breakdowns! Poem/haiku: Coffee, bittersweet Addictingly painful Like blocks in kenpo It’s about how most people originally hate coffee because of the sharp taste, but eventually you get addicted because of how it makes you feel. It’s like Kenpo’s conditioning of the forearms to block. It burns a little, but the doing it makes you focused and attentive in the long run and eventually you enjoy it.

yeah that's make sense that's what a lot of people don't seem to understand nowadays they want to compare everything to MMA spiders boxers to Jutsu practitioners versus everyday real life you don't walk in a boxing stance in karate stance to the bus stop or until work or in the grocery store you look ridiculous or like you're looking for fight or you're begging somebody to attack you that'll make people uncomfortable or actually make somebody attack you find meteorologist people walk with their hands down most typical people not ready for fight

He mentions gaurd. I practice praying hands when talking to an aggressor. Wirh my feet in a stance

I'd like to throw in a little something about the phone thing when being out walking around. Rather than actually being on your phone and paying attention to which on your phone I will often pretended to be on my phone where in reality I'm using my peripheral vision and my hearing to pay attention to the people near me while making them think that I'm not paying them direct attention

Is this the same Donnie Jeffcoat from that nickelodeon show Wild and Crazy Kids?

Like when I go to work I know I could be attacked at any moment somebody at my job on the street on my way there but you're so damn tired at 4 something in the morning, that's I'm not going to be walking to the car with a karate stance I'm not going to go into my job and do my job in a karate stance because I just can't do that not because it'll make other people uncomfortable or wonder what's his problem but simply because a karate stand to a boxing stance or any fighting stance that all is not the proper standing style to do a physical labor job or a desk job even a doctor cannot walk in ready for fight to look at a patient because it's just that you can't multitask in that type of way

Hey come to santa maria California I want to show u Ed parker kenpo there are 5 or more main kenpo please man come to my town n check out American Kenpo Karate it different n modernize it not tradition it moden!!!

Now you can train your body to have a natural fighting and defensive reaction like Ruth we mentioned years ago with years and years of training in and focusing on that that could be possible and maybe practical but unless you have super speed you know somebody catches You by surprise you and you're going to get hit even if you are in a fighting stance but I definitely agree hands up at all times but don't hold your hand while you're talking because you could look intimidating and I've had people talk to me like that come to me to ask me something they got their hands like they're rubbing lotion on their hands and stuff and I already know they're ready for me to do something and because of that they're ready for certain things that I already know which leaves them open for other types of attack and when somebody comes to me like that that lets me know he's ready for a fight so is he really interested in talking to me in a nice way which makes me needs to be ready for a fight

Where is the live resisting sparing in this gym?

Oh man. I'm going to see an neurologist for my neck

Ha that little slap that was maybe a bit harder than he intended at around 13:00 reminded me of back when I was doing martial arts as a child, the teacher was demonstrating how quickly you could regain your guard after a certain a roll technique and was probably farther forward than he realized and I got an arm in the face. Not really a strike, but some part of his arm caught me in the corner of my eye and thinking back on it now probably did some minor nerve damage as I had an occasional eye twitch or tick, particularly when I would get a cold. I imagine that's what caused it as it was happening for a few minutes right after the incident. It wasn't like an observable twitch, just that type you feel.

Bay Area "Chu'an Fa" guy here. I grew up practicing Kajukenbo from 2nd grade on because of my uncle. My uncle was part of an 80s bay area Kajukenbo gang lol and eventually opened his own school that we were all part of. High school gyms and restaurant tournaments in the mid 90's ...Those were the days lol. Weird as a kid I was told Kajunenbo was superior to Kenpo lol. I thought it was cool that one of my favorite martial artist Mark Dacascos "Only the Strong" pops was an OG in Kajukenbo. Kids in school didn't understand when I told them I was learning the Gaylord method. IT was fun doing while young and I felt like I was part of something really cool, plus it was a family tradition. For some reason we were taught to look down on other forms like taekwondo... Fun taking a trip down memory lane. The horse stance got interesting when people would climb on your legs and you had to hold them up with you lol. throwback vid from a family member, he got hit in the nuts in lion heard by van damme. It was so cool whenever he was around lol. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YEeVNUiZYIs.html

Much love for this channel and never knew you work with American Kenpoists! Kenpo is my base art (going on 17 years in martial arts) I’d love to work with you🫡❤️

Kajukenbo - sensei or Sifu?

I want to know why Shaolin is in it as a Shaolin practitioner!

17:38 tell us that story!!!!

14:07 _"We were learning, like, palm-strike to the nose, grab the throat, rip the trachea out. We were learning kill moves. We were learning, like, Special Forces killing moves....when I have to use it in real combat, then I'm actually going to grab this person, or I'm actually going to break their trachea."_ I was waiting for the punchline, but it never came. Sounds like some serious Dim-Mak level bullshit there. :(

Speaking of training to go into a fight mode, have you seen this vid being colloquially called, "The Jeff Goldblum Fight" because one of the combatants is tall, gangly and wears glasses. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UqTClrThzSg.html This is epic! It answers the question will karate and traditional striking arts work in self-defense? The answer is, YES, IT CAN, against an untrained and unskilled goon. Many people call out traditional striking arts as "bullshido" and ineffective in a real fight but, really, the chances that you are going to be facing a pro MMA fighter or ground grappling expert in a street confrontation is slim. The chances are that you will be confronted by a goon who throws haymakers and hasn't practiced fighting at different ranges. As long as you have pressure tested your art, even in point sparring, gives you an advantage than you would otherwise have with no skills at all. Although I'm currently more into BJJ, I have total respect for well trained strikers. The guy in this video doesn't even look like a black belt. He looks like maybe a green or blue belt grade karate or TKD guy and look at the damage he does against an untrained, unskilled street thug. Props.

Hey come to santa maria California I want to show u Ed parker kenpo there are 5 or more main kenpo please man come to my town n check out American Kenpo Karate it different n modernize it not tradition it moden!!! Porfavor man cuando caba este quaratina please come check it out we have boxing wrestling n kenpo in santa maría

Thank you for advertising Kenpo in a good light. It is so badly hated on these days. Most arts like Kenpo are shat on by MMA keyboard warriors who haven't trained anything but their fingers to type. And of course Fighting art students also shit on these arts. Kenpo won't work in MMA, or against trained fighter's. And that doesn't matter. It will work against untrained everyday attackers. Those people you can come across; anytime, any day, any place. Those who don't take the time to understand won't ever understand.

First!

True kenpo..EPK....not all muddied stuff

Million Dollar Question is, can he handle MMA?

New york jab roy jones jab

No man

The parker progerssion is good as far as more n more co ordination the typical translation o those forms is a joke

The Triangle base / method used in aikido, judo in fact all forms of Jujitsu. I've been teaching it and using it for years . The thing is all traditional systems work ( it's where all MMA comes from ) . But they have lost the meaning of there function most often . Rendered nothing more than dance . Most self defence is fear mongering nonsense.. TMA needs to find its function fight training combat sports etc . Will give some of what you need . Aggression, taking a punch , defending against and attacking a resisting opponent . But its function is sport fighting .you go to the floor in a riot your dead . Take someone down in a multiple attack scenario. That's a bar stool across the back of your head . In self defence situational awareness, environmental awareness, fight indicators etc are more important than techniques. Know many sports fighting gyms that teach that? No ofd course not it's not its function. I teach panatukan , aikido, Japanese Jujitsu, wrestling.. as a hybrid self defence system My base is aikido. I thought it was good and worked until I started to work in a prison . 17 years ago . Holy shit you learn fast TMA has lost its function. Did I leave aikido? No . So I adapted it dropped what didnt work . Took on what did . And I mixed it up with the other stuff . My tested functional ( not stuck in a fantasy aikido) has saved my life countless times . All self defence is the same if done properly. As we can only move so many ways functionally. And there are only so many gross motor skills the brain can fire off . When you've just woken up , or been ambushed while getting your car keys. TMA works but only if its tested . Aikido works if you already know how to fight . Or train striking and grappling alongside it . It always makes me laugh when you call out aikido, systema etc . When you dont understand what is happening. Aikido taught to most police forces and prison services in the world . ( I know because it was my job in the prison service) to deliver the training. Systema taught to the Russian special service or spetnatz . I have trained with them too . Punching power is unbelievable. So 2 things 1 I have a challenge do a video like this at a systema course .( not the bullshit systema . Wait to one of the real deal spetnatz instructors is running a course ) 2 make a video like this of you actually training with an aikido instructor. Not the bullshit dance variety . But look em up train with someone like Bruno orozco, lenny sly etc . While your at it check out videos by Mick coup Lee Morrison ( urban combatives) Jeff Thompson. . Would love to see that . It's all about being fit for purpose. 99% of TMA isnt . But some definitely know there function. Love your videos even if you sometimes come across as naive. But how can you know the truth of a system if you have never tried it?

Hey come to santa maria California I want to show u Ed parker kenpo there are 5 or more main kenpo please man come to my town n check out American Kenpo Karate it different n modernize it not tradition it moden!!! Porfavor man cuando caba este quaratina please come check it out we have boxing wrestling n kenpo in santa maría