New article posted

This is posted for March in the Member section of my website at http://www.leewedlake.com/index.asp?PageID=29

In kenpo we teach what to do when the emergency is developing and changing. The ideal and what-if? Phases address the abnormal and emergency conditions of being physically attacked. Abnormal might be your drunken relative who takes a poke at someone at a party and you have to restrain them. But the person with a knife in the proverbial dark alley is a real emergency and it develops and changes and must be handled. What may be omitted in a lot of training is addressing what may have led up to the attack. I think we simply assume that we’re faced with the attacker and the particular attack and what is, is. There’s a lot to be said for scenario-based training. It’s used in many disciplines and some kenpo schools use it. It’s the couching of the technique into a developing situation and includes verbal assault, non-verbal change of attitude (that includes posture and movement) and environment (Ed Parker’s first combat consideration).