Kenpo sets. Kenpo jr techniques. American Kenpo Karate training. ED PARKER'S AMERICAN KENPO BELT REQUIREMENTS. The comparison is very simple - if an instructor is NOT teaching what Ed Parker set up as the MINIMUM requirements for each belt in Volumn V Infinite Insights into Kenpo, Mental & Physical Applications Pages 71 through 87, then he or she is not teaching "American Kenpo".
Now when an "INSTRUCTOR" or "Association" claims to be teaching American Kenpo all a student has to do is compare Ed Parkers "MINIMUM BELT REQUIREMENTS" against what is being taught by any instructor of association. The comparisons is very simple: Yellow belt has 10 required self defense techniques; all belts Orange through 3rd degree Black Belt have 24 self Defense techniques. This differs from True Kenpo which originally had 40 techniques per belt, but was changed to 30 techniques (and variations) when True Kenpo belt testing included 5th degree (Godan) which requires 40 techniques.
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