Kenpō
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Sep 11, 2026
ChrisHOST
Survivors, like, committee, whatever they called it.
ZachHOST
Where they're watching, like, it's like the Kenpo, like, fight between...
ZachHOST
No, Kendo.
ZachHOST
Kendo,
Jeff SpeakmanGUEST
At that time, that was Kempo 1.0. Then Parker evolved it to Kempo 2.0. And that's always been the thinking.
Jeff SpeakmanGUEST
Then there was a 3.0 and a 4.0. And of course, here we are at 5.0. And the big difference is Kempo 5.0 is a hybridization of ground fighting and stand-up Kempo.
Jeff SpeakmanGUEST
So it's both those worlds made into one cohesive system.
Justin HillHOST
And I guess it'll feature in the film.
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Suck my dick.
speaker_18SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, I took Kempo Karate way back in the day.
speaker_18SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And me and my girlfriend wound up taking it.
speaker_18SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We had this chick, and we wound up taking it together.
Jeff SpeakmanGUEST
You know, and I've got franchise martial arts schools in 19 countries.
Jeff SpeakmanGUEST
We're the largest Kempo, which is the type of martial art I do, organization in the world.
Jeff SpeakmanGUEST
I have this great, great history being trained by some of the greatest martial artists in the world who are no longer here.
Jeff SpeakmanGUEST
So I have a... clear sense and feeling of legacy and to carry on.
Joe R. LansdaleGUEST
to this in a way i remember if i remember right in the movie morgan and i may not remember this exactly but morgan freeman quoted something hemingway said about life was you know worth it and worth fighting for and he said i agree with that second all right worth fighting for yeah life isn't that good i i tend to believe sometimes it's the direction in which you look Because I can look at some things and see a lot of good life.
Joe R. LansdaleGUEST
When I look at my kids and I look at what they're doing, I look at my friend Chef and how he handles his life and his family.
Joe R. LansdaleGUEST
And I look at Jeff and the fact of his Kempo family and what he's trying to do.
Joe R. LansdaleGUEST
I see a lot of good.
KleeHOST
yeah and it was enough like personally i felt like that's way way worse than anything else that and also like truth right um Pandy with my very intimidating five foot one height.
RafiHOST
Hey, hey small and mighty so that's true I had a I had a friend I had my friend Lisa was four foot tall and Lisa took Kempo Jiu-jitsu and I forget which Kempo is the one with the sticks she was scary she was scary so like it was funny because i remember we were out one night and like somebody started something with me this big dude like started something just out of the blue like one of those things where he's like i don't like your face and i was like come on dude oh man i'm just out like whatever and then like lisa stepped in between us and she just looked at him And he backed off and went away.
RafiHOST
And I was like, I don't even...
RafiHOST
I'm just gonna take Lisa out, my forefoot friend, with me to everywhere.
SantagataGUEST
Taekwondo Chunda Kwan.
SantagataGUEST
And then I studied Kempo from Nick Serio.
SantagataGUEST
And then I studied Praying Mantis from Grandmaster Manuel Agrela.
SantagataGUEST
So I've been around a little while, and I also have a 10th down in Kempo, 8th down in Chundaquan, and a 10th down in Praying Mantis, which is Tonganong.
speaker_2HOST
Steve, you're up.
Steve MillietGUEST
All right.
8 MINS LATER
Reggie DardenGUEST
And kind of like you mentioned, the color belts were added into... uh, to be that carrot on the stick, the, the money thing, uh, uh, especially, sorry, uh, uh, sorry, America, I'm going to throw us under the bus here, but, uh, you know, we have to have that, oh, let's, that thing to, to keep us motivated to go in, just, just getting kicked by your friends is, is not enough.
Reggie DardenGUEST
Uh, and so, yeah, the, the whole changing, uh, of the, the colors because of the wear and tear, no, that's, That's not a thing.
John CollinsGUEST
You know, when I got into adulthood, I wanted to get back into it.
John CollinsGUEST
So I met these guys at a Kenpo karate school.
John CollinsGUEST
Two of the characters that I based in the story were based on two of those guys because we have,
Scotty MilderHOST
it
JohnHOST
though.
JohnHOST
I did Kenpo, and they did do some throws.
JohnHOST
It was never...
JohnHOST
I don't ever remember being as technical as judo or even in jiu-jitsu, but I do remember, I think I got the orange belt or something like that.
James MooreHOST
I was gonna be able to do that.
James MooreHOST
But getting into Kenpo, uh, Master Williams, the guy that I told you we had in common.
Keith R. SantagataGUEST
Uh-huh.
James MooreHOST
That stuff right there that he's teaching is amazing.
Steven MillietGUEST
Over the next several years, I studied various arts, focusing on them one at a time until either I didn't feel like I was getting anything else or moved on.
Steven MillietGUEST
So I studied Southern Five Animals Shaolin, Kenpo, Tang Soo Do, Kali, Pakiti Tosia to be exact.
Steven MillietGUEST
And I was a 15-year disciple of someone learning Yen Kae San Wing Chun.
Steven MillietGUEST
There's not many of us in the U.S., but I am one of them.
22 MINS LATER
Steven MillietGUEST
Absolutely.
James MooreHOST
Absolutely.
James MooreHOST
So how was Kenpo? You said you took Kenpo.
James MooreHOST
How was that?
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