Warriors

 Two of our guys, Greg Schreffler of GA and Aaron Kentros of FL. You have my thanks for serving our country.

Functional Anatomy for Martial Artists

Doc Rowe and I took our time but we have Part Two scheduled for Saturday, August 4 in Ft. Myers, FL.

Functional Anatomy for the Martial Artist, Part Two

A team-taught seminar on how hands, wrists and chest structures work and what can happen when they are subjected to force. The yin and yang of this is how you can hurt yourself by improper body mechanics or how the martial techniques may be applied to injure the joints or chest.

WHO: Kenpo professor Lee Wedlake and Marc Rowe, M.D. will team teach this seminar. Dr. Rowe is Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Pittsburgh and a retired surgeon with years of practice of Yang tai chi.

WHEN: Saturday, August 4, 2012. Noon to 5:30pm

WHY: Students in our tai chi and kenpo classes expressed interest in the basics of functional anatomy we taught. It is important to know how your joints are designed to work best to prevent damage from repetitive, incorrect movement or trauma induced by impact and twisting as is taught in martial applications. This is needed to protect oneself in training or to gain insight as to what is actually happening when you apply defensive techniques.

HOW: Participants will get classroom work through lecture and PowerPoint presentation mixed with supervised hands-on practice of technique application. This makes it much easier for those unaccustomed to such hands-on training to gain insights into the “why” we do what we do in a safe, controlled environment. 

WHERE: Location: Imperial Dragon Kenpo Karate, 12451 Metro Pkwy, #104, Ft. Myers, FL 33966

Registration and fee: $80/person. Space limited, pre-registration required. You can register by e-mail or phone.  Or  PayPal to lee@leewedlake.com.

Recommended Text: Netter’s Anatomy Coloring Book by John B. Hansen. Buy from Amazon for under $15 or download the pdf elsewhere.

After the seminar: We plan to meet at Tim’s Magic Wok, Daniels and Six Mile Cypress.

More information contact Lee Wedlake at lee@leewedlake.com or 239-839-9380.

Kenpo Karate 201

My book of this title is on sale on my website for the rest of the month. www.wedlakekenpotv.com/leewedlake
It's also being translated into German and should be out this year. I'm excited!

Mt. Vernon, OH this weekend

I'll be at Steve Hatfield's Panther Kenpo Karate this weekend. Mr. Hatfield hosts me every year and this Saturday I'll be doing seminar at his studio in Mt. Vernon, near Columbus. The adults will be working on the club defenses and I'll do a class for the kids, too.
   Steve has been with me since the early 1980's, he's one of the old-timers. He was with me at Mr. Parker's funeral in 1991 after driving through a snowstorm from Ohio to fly to California with me.
  You can reach him at 740-392-3846 for info on the seminar.

July article excerpt

Here's an excerpt from my July website article entitled More Random Points.

Jim Deery in Pennsylvania asked me about street freestyle. I’m glad he did because it’s a training method we don’t use enough. It’s the bridge between doing the standard technique patterns and sparring. Spontaneous self-defense is a degree of it, too, and even that doesn’t get done enough either. I think when people practice spontaneous (or extemporaneous, as Mr. Parker called it) they don’t have the attacker working very actively throughout the technique. It’s more that they throw one or two things and you pick them off and work. Street freestyle typically allows you both to throw when the opportunity presents itself.

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Something to think about

I've been reading about a CIA operation to stop nuclear proliferation. There's a line in there that the CIA was more interested in gathering information than taking action. I've heard that said about martial artists as well. John Graden, who studied with Joe Lewis, said Mr. Lewis would say "Less yak and more smack". I've met many a kenpo person who is guilty of talking the techniques to death and even Mr. Parker commented on it. Nothing susbstitues for time on the body.

Podcasts on knife work

I've posted two podcasts about my background with knife training and how I see the Parker knife techniques.
It's a shame that we have instructors out there telling people they don't work.
Links at www.wedlakekenpotv.com/leewedlake