Components of the KaliKenpo System (some is common to other Kenpo systems)

The ultimate goal of Kenpo: Use your energy and your opponent's energy and guide it with sound guidelines and principles

The concepts and principles allow you to teach yourself how to do Kenpo 

• 45 Degrees 
• 9 Dimensional Movement 
• Anatomical Alignment 
• Angle Of Deviation 
• Attention
• Attitude 
• Bermuda Triangle
• BAM - Body Alignment Mechanism
• Bamboo - bends but never breaks, flexes, and when it hits it hurts like hell
• Body Fusion 
• Borrowed Force
• Breathing 
• Cause Pain 
• Check Dimensions 
• Chi = 9 Dimensional Movement + Anatomical Alignment + State of Engagement
• Circles: Follow, Reverse, Cut 
• Contouring 
• Control The Centerline 
• Cutting The (<Dimension>) Zone In Half 
• D1 & D2 Movement 
• Diagonal Drop (or rotational/spiral - drop/lift/thurst....)
• Damage - Intentional and Unintentional
• Dimensional Stages (Of Muscle Action) 
• Dimensions: Height, Width, Depth 
• Directional Harmony
• Disruption 
• Dumog
• Economy Of Motion 
• Elastic Recoil  (Internal and External)
• Elongation
• Energetic Conversion Wave

  • thought

  • plyometric twitch - the spark

  • big toe

  • legs/lift

  • hips/torque

  • body depth then arm

  • gravitational marriage

  • thrust

• Every Technique Must Have:
  • Create Pain
  • Control The Centerline
  • Check Their Dimensions
  • Control Your Dimensions
  • Seek The Timing Drill
• Explosive Movement 
• Eye of the Storm
• Fast Twitch/Slow Twitch 
• Fishtail
• Formulation Phase 
• Go For The Guns 
• Ideal Phase 
• Index
• Intention
• Liquid Neutral 
• Mad Blitz
• Margin For Error  (Path)
• Master Keys
  • Life = Breathing
  • Basics
    • Punch = Uppercut, Kick = Knee, Stance = Neutral
  • Methods of Execution = Hammer Whip Lift Thrust
• Miolactic reflex
• Mirroring 
• Neutral Bow Stance
  • Height, Width, Depth, Orientation, Distribution
• Open Ended Triangles 
• Opposites 
• Path Vs. Line  (See Margin For Error)
• Pain is fear leaving the body
• PAM - Positional Alignment Mechanism
• Pause For Effect 
• Piston
• Principles of Motion
  • Gravitational Marriage, Torque, Backup Mass, Rotation
• Purposeful Compliance, Purposeful Defiance 
• Rebounding 
• Reverses 
• Ring of Fire
• Seek Depth
• Same Ting 
• Shimmy
• Shellac 
• Solidify the base
• Spirals And Diagonals 
• Squeeze the Grape
• Stages of refinement
• State Of Engagement
  • Knees bent, relax, breath, aware of surroundings and exits
• Structurally Sound
• Subcutaneous Angle Of Incidence 
• Target of opportunity
• Timing Drill 
• Timing Pattern 
• Top of the Circle
  • lift, uppercut, torque, drop/down makes the top half of a circle
• Twitch 
• Unscrew the lightbulb, drop it on the floor
• Violence Of Action 
• Weapon of choice
• What If Phase 
• Where the head goes the body will follow
• Zone Of Obscurity   (ZOO)
• Zone Of Sanctuary  (ZOS)
• Zones Of Contact
  • No Contact
  • Contact
  • Contact Penetration
  • Contact Manipulation

Kali Concepts

• 50/50 rule
• Palusut (open)
• Palibas (closed)
• Mano-Mano
• Largo
• Occupy all weapons
• Quadrant
• Deception
• Baiting
• Responses: Natural Reaction, Conditioned Response