This clip shows two beautiful clips of Television appearances by SGM Ed Parker. The first clip is from the famous Lucy Show from 1963. The second is from The Courtship of Eddie's Father from 1972.
This is amazing historical film. Very interesting to see Ed Parker before the 1964 Long Beach International Tournament. I had no idea he made guest appearances on TV in the 1960s and 70s. Thanks for posting.
+Joe Smith the only time i see mr Parker performed ok in RU-vid was a knife technique The only kenpo master i see who has good kicks was Chuck Sullivan when he was young
Parker looks like he's about to laugh his head off during the kicking bit. Too bad the general rule back then was to not save the outtakes. Would be cool to see just how much laughing they all did while filming this bit.
Let me ask you this, who deserves more respect. A man with 2 black belts behind him and made a world famous martial art and trained millions and even hit Hollywood? Or tough guy on the internet
Looked like Ed Parker was hamming it up throughout this scene. . . With the exception of the breaking technique segment. Nice to know he had a sense of humor!!
The "father of American Kenpo" on the I love Lucy Show. :) Needed to pay the bills for his Karate school? Who was the "Sensei"? Was he actually a known martial artist? I've only head of Ed (of the 3 martial artists) in this clip. Live seeing name martial artists make guest appearances. Just for the fun of it. But they rarely make them look good.
I became involve in martial arts about thirty years ago, and I always posses a strong level of respect, and admiration for all the pioneers in martial arts as a whole. Ed Parker did such a tremendous contribution to martial arts, period and no one can deny this known fact. Now, with so many videos on youtube, you can clearly see in this video, either he was being a clown, or was a fake black belt. His foundations, and levels of executions mimic a white belt period, and anyone with experience can clearly see this.
agree. he can't even do a proper front kick. His moves were all fake like a kid pretend to be a karate master in front a mirror. Yet everybody believed he was a master :(
So Ed Parker developed a whole new system to help defend and save people's lives by enchanting Chinese Kenpo and even hit Hollywood and even trained millions of people, tell me that man doesn't deserve respect?
I agree with you Michael Kenpo. It's beyond distasteful when someone will run their mouth about another when the other party isn't able to respond. To me that kind of behavior is cowardly.
Not to say a completely inexperienced actor could come in and "play" the part of a Karate black belt like this with only a bit of rehearsal, but his demonstration certainly looks closer to this than you'd expect from a Karate master. It might have been impressive in 1963 when Asian Martial Arts were an underground novelty, and viewers wouldn't have know better. But by today's eyes, a novice white belt would look more impressive. That spinning kick was completely amateurish and laughably uncoordinated. It should be a move performed thousands of times but looks like a one off for the camera. That jerky gyrating movement movement during the sparring scene looks like someone who doesn't know what real Karate looks like. He's not even kicking at one point, and is just awkwardly jumping up and down with his knees like he has no ability to kick above his waist. And that spin kick... shows he didn't have the true flexibility and dexterity of a real Martial Artist who performs those moves thousands of times. He was a fraud and a con-man.
Let me ask you this, who deserves more respect. A man with 2 black belts behind him and made a world famous martial art and trained millions and even hit Hollywood? Or tough guy on the internet?
Michael kenpo. six year old kids have black belts. one can learn under a fool with students who doesn't know any better. many martial artist are better writers and not great a martial artist.
It's true what you said, Ed Parker cn't fight and was bullied during his teenage years in Honolulu so that is took up martial arts just to hide away from his cowardly instincts.
Esto es el orgullo americano? Suerte que mi maestro solo uso la representacion de kenpo,pero nunca enseno kenpo. Ni hablar de los nombres de las tecnicas, patada de gallina,por ejemplo.Que verguenza
It was clearly a TV show... and Let me ask you this, who deserves more respect. A man with 2 black belts behind him and made a world famous martial art and trained millions and even hit Hollywood? Or tough guy on the internet
+Michael Kenpo and during a TV show you should hide all your true skills? Meaning in this video Mr Parker pretend he cannot kick? Why he can train millions is because he can dupe millions
