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The Parker system is online here to supplement your learning experience. Master instructor Lee Wedlake, along with Tom Fanelli (web) and Bill Spearman of the Spearman Resource Group (video), have created a site that’s not designed for you to get rank here but will enhance the training you get in your home studio or help you keep your hand in if you are unable to attend class due to distance, time or other factors.
Free videos are linked on the left side of the “Media” page. See a selection of videos from the various sections for beginner, intermediate, skilled and advanced levels as well as basics, principles, sets, and Instructing for Instructors. These are rotated from time to time, so if you can’t make a decision, watch this page for a few weeks. You can see the lists of what other videos are available as a guest but until you subscribe you won’t be able to watch them. Here’s how they are arranged.
Kenpo 101, the beginner level, includes the first 42 self-defense techniques of the original Yellow and Orange belt curricula set down by Ed Parker. Each technique in all four levels has three dedicated segments. One shows the technique “in the air”. The instructional segment shows how it is applied along with instruction on targets, weapons, basic theme, principle and terminology. The segment labeled “A Closer Look” adds more related information such as family groupings and variations. General Rules and Principles videos lay the groundwork for Kenpo motion. Other rules and principles are incorporated in the technique segments. The basics videos describe fundamentals in detail and context.
Drills/Sets/Freestyle detail components of the singular moves. Drills are helpful to develop skills and are easily learned and practiced. Instructors will find them to be popular classroom tools. Sets include items such as Stance, Elbow, Two Man, Staff and Spear Sets, among others. The standard freestyle sparring techniques are also shown and taught. KENPO 101 and DRILL/SETS/FREESTYLE are part of the basic package.
Kenpo 201, the intermediate level, has more from Purple and Blue. 64 self-defense techniques in the same three-part arrangement. More general rules, forms and principles. Same format as Kenpo 101.
Kenpo 301, the skilled level, Green and Brown is in this section, giving you more techniques and forms instruction. Kenpo 101, 201,301 and drills can be purchased together.
Kenpo 401, the advanced or expert level, includes extensions to the techniques. Instruction in higher level forms will soon be added.
Instructing for Instructors will give teachers insight into how to be an effective instructor. Too often those responsible for passing on knowledge have received little or no training in how to teach. An entire science, pedagogy, has grown up around the subject of teaching. These tips cover laws of learning and forgetting, how people learn and ways to transmit information effectively. Kenpo 401 and this instructor section can be added for an all-access subscription.
What do you do next?
You can be a guest, a member or a subscriber. A guest is anyone who comes to the page and can browse the site but can only watch the videos on the “free videos” page without registering. When you register only and do NOT select a paid package you become a member. You can still see only what a guest sees but will now get the periodic newsletter we send out. You are a subscriber if you register, then select a subscription package and pay through Pay Pal and will be able to see the videos appropriate to the package you picked plus get the newsletter.
Packages
Right now the best deal is the Charter membership. It’s all-access and saves money. Choose “Intro Promotion” package when you register and pay. Your credit card will automatically be billed monthly and you can cancel anytime. This is the same package as the Kenpo 401-Instructing package but is discounted until we have 100 Charter members. There are not many of these packages left.
Kenpo 101 and Drills is $30/mo. You can upgrade later, too.
Kenpo 201-301 adds those levels to Kenpo 101 and Drills and is $50/mo. This can be upgraded later also.
Kenpo 401, Instructing is $70/mo and is all-inclusive.
Testimonials
“I just want to let you know how much I love your KenpoTV. It has answered so many questions already and I have only scratched the surface. Extremely informative. I need to sit down with my notebook and start from the first one. Thank you so much.”
Barb Barnhart (Black belt, Oak Lawn, IL)
Hi Lee,
Just wanted to let you know that you have certainly left a legacy with the launching of KTV. What an enormous undertaking this must have been. It's simply outstanding, Lee.
I must congratulate you too on your balanced views whilst acknowledging the differences in those ways different instructors may run their forms or techniques. I like the way you presented the reasoning behind your views without being critical of others. I can't begin to tell you how many different ways I've been shown is the "right" way to run the long line in Long Form 2 - all from very senior instructors, too - particularly with the 3 pushdown block sequence. I found this section alone very informative.
Tony Perez (Black belt, Australia)
Lee,
See, your kenpotv rocks! I viewed your new segments on Broken Gift and found my problem [learning opportunity] right away. I just went back and checked my manual. My original manual states " step forward with your left to 1 o'clock" and doing this, I was stepping in front of the opponents right leg. This changed the angle of cancellation of bad guys left. Watching your demo on "kenpotv" I saw you step to the outside of opponents right foot. I found making this correction made the BIG difference canceling the potential left punch. I'm going to bring my manual home and go over all of my techniques viewing them along with the web site. Thanks a bunch.
Tim Walker (Black belt, Florida)
“Thanks for taking the time energy for this project, it’s a great way to show honor to Mr. Parker.”
Steve Hatfield (Black belt, Mt. Vernon, OH)
“Like getting a private lesson.”
Carlos Weil (Black belt, Ft. Myers, FL)
The new website that Mr. Wedlake and the team have worked very hard to put together and are constantly refining is an amazing resource of information, regardless if you are a student of his or not
(and I am, so a little biased), with the ability to go there anytime and reference techniques, sets, or groups of moves and how these are related and be able to go there and look again and again to revue or see differences. Coming from someone who relates to distance learning and has had to travel extensively to gain knowledge, this website will be a huge advantage to anyone looking to gain insights and knowledge not only Mr. Wedlake's local students but anyone, anywhere! I cannot recommend this site enough.
Regards,
Jack Nilon, P.K.S Australia
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