Kenpo Strike Does Some Good!

Stories of Good Will Pouring In.

For Good Karate Keeping Magazine I am taking names and... and I can't recall what to do after taking names. That might be a little out of my league for someone who is semi-retired, and preferring Margaritas However, I definitely did take names. There are too many names to mention this week, and that is a positive sign for a Kenpo Month with so many great posts. Today, I am simply enjoying myself but I am going to mention one special name: Masa. ;-)

This week I actually gained some knowledge and enjoyed reading UKA posts about fashion, manners, style, finance and living. One new piece of information is the post on Kenpo fashion and the checkered uniform. Who knew? Apparently they are famous. Perhaps everyone but me knew however, in any case, not me. I never saw them before. Other great posts came before and after the fashion one too. I read the post on Dojo Fees with great interest. The Kenpo Bow post was also packed full of information. I did not realize that they had so many different meanings in the same art. I had been told by my early instructor that different families have different bows and meanings. I also completely missed the Fred Ettish chapter on kenpo and the ring. Apparently, I am a little confused about kenpo and Fred Ettish since he is not American Kenpo and his school is called Matsumura Kenpo. I read Kenpo Joe's post and looked up the name of Fred Ettish's school. Sad news also came during this kenpo week. Leilani Parker, beloved wife of Ed Parker is ill with cancer and expects another six months to share with this world. The family, in a post passed forward from Edmund K. Parker Jr., asks for well wishes. I wish Leilani Parker and her family the best during this time.

Kick boxers did kick a little with Ernesto "The Rooster" Diaz-Gonzalez making a post comeback including some (more) unexpected poetry. In all seriousness, the kenpo posts did go from kenpo to fighting or fighting to kenpo in many instances. Thanks for all the great posts! It definitely was a great kenpo week with a spice of some other information mixed in.

Reporting with an umbrella drink,
Evonne the Storyteller
Good Karate Keeping Magazine