Vocab.
Si-Gung - Instructors teacher or Grandfather.
Sifu - Instructor or Father.
Sihing - Senior ranking student.
Chaun Fa - Way of the fist.
Ken Po - Law of the fist.
Gwoon - School.
Sijo - Founder of the system.
Kung-Fu - One who strives for perfection. To work hard to obtain a skill. Kung-Fu is Mandarin and Gung-Fu is Cantonese.
Sillum - Shaolin Kung-fu. The largest style of Kung-Fu in China. It originated from the Shaolin temples. It's taught as both hard and soft styles. (Tiger and Crane.)
Tai Chi Chaun - Grand Ultimate Fist Style.
Hard Style - To overcome with force.
Soft style - To overcome using an opponents force against them.
Lung - Dragon
Dim-Mak - Death touch. This technique can kill someone with little to no physical power applied.
Hung - Power.
Sot - Death.
To Di - Student.
Wu Shu - Military Arts.
History and Basic Knowledge.
Sash ranks and meanings:
White - Purity
Purple - Bruise
Blue - Sky
Green - Grass
Brown - Earth
Black - Death
Red - Blood
White - Enlightenment.
Break down:
Ka - Korean Tang Soo Do. Karate - Thrust kicks.
Ju - Jujutsu, Judo - Nerve pokes, Joint locks, grappling; Sweeps, throws, Take downs.
Ken - Chinese Kenpo (Law of the Fist) - Rolling techniques, Southern Short Range (hands), Hand strikes.
Bo - Chinese Boxing - (Northern and Southern; Northern Praying Mantis.) Western Boxing - North and South, Soft and internal sets, Animal techniques.
Motto - Through this fist style, one obtains long life and happiness.
Kajukenbo is the system and Tumpai is the style. It is the only soft style of Kajukenbo.
4 Styles:
Tum Pai
Original Kajukenbo (Kajukenbo Kenpo or Kenpo Karate)
Chaun Fa
Wun Hop Kuen Do
Colors:
White, Red and Black. These are the three highest sashes.
Our uniforms are black because in the Chinese culture, black is associated with life and white with death. Black is worn to weddings and white to funerals.
Tum Pai means "Central Way".
Your belt is a symbol of your knowledge and is not to be washed.
Kajukenbo originated in the Palama Province of Hawaii between 1947 and 1949.
Our salute is a sign of respect. We salute to show respect to the Sifu, to signify the begining or ending of training, to show respect to a higher rank, and to show that we are leaving our aggressions on the training floor unless absolutely necessary.
Tony Ramos brought Kajukenbo to the main land states in 1959.
Al Dascos brought Chaun Fa in 1964. In 1969 he developed Wun Hop Kuen Do meaning "combined fist and style."
Angles of Attack
Direct - Hit
Indirect - Fake, Hit
Combination - Hit, Hit
Immobilization - Trap, Hit
Broken Rhythm - Fake, Fake, Hit.
You gain power through Rotation, Penetration and Back-up Mass
Professor Bob Heur and Doug Bailey developed Tum Pai in 1971 - 1979. In 1984, Professor Emperado certified it as Northern Tum Pai.
Sillum Kung-Fu is the oldest and most widely practiced style in China, Practiced for centuries by the Shadin Buddhists. It teaches Hard and Soft styles; Tiger and Crane.
We do forms to practice our self-defense in a series of moves, rather one move at a time.
Our salute says "I cover my aggressions and mean you no harm." or "Peace over power." The fist Is yang and the knife-hand is yin.
Si-Gung - Instructors teacher or Grandfather.
Sifu - Instructor or Father.
Sihing - Senior ranking student.
Chaun Fa - Way of the fist.
Ken Po - Law of the fist.
Gwoon - School.
Sijo - Founder of the system.
Kung-Fu - One who strives for perfection. To work hard to obtain a skill. Kung-Fu is Mandarin and Gung-Fu is Cantonese.
Sillum - Shaolin Kung-fu. The largest style of Kung-Fu in China. It originated from the Shaolin temples. It's taught as both hard and soft styles. (Tiger and Crane.)
Tai Chi Chaun - Grand Ultimate Fist Style.
Hard Style - To overcome with force.
Soft style - To overcome using an opponents force against them.
Lung - Dragon
Dim-Mak - Death touch. This technique can kill someone with little to no physical power applied.
Hung - Power.
Sot - Death.
To Di - Student.
Wu Shu - Military Arts.
History and Basic Knowledge.
Sash ranks and meanings:
White - Purity
Purple - Bruise
Blue - Sky
Green - Grass
Brown - Earth
Black - Death
Red - Blood
White - Enlightenment.
Break down:
Ka - Korean Tang Soo Do. Karate - Thrust kicks.
Ju - Jujutsu, Judo - Nerve pokes, Joint locks, grappling; Sweeps, throws, Take downs.
Ken - Chinese Kenpo (Law of the Fist) - Rolling techniques, Southern Short Range (hands), Hand strikes.
Bo - Chinese Boxing - (Northern and Southern; Northern Praying Mantis.) Western Boxing - North and South, Soft and internal sets, Animal techniques.
Motto - Through this fist style, one obtains long life and happiness.
Kajukenbo is the system and Tumpai is the style. It is the only soft style of Kajukenbo.
4 Styles:
Tum Pai
Original Kajukenbo (Kajukenbo Kenpo or Kenpo Karate)
Chaun Fa
Wun Hop Kuen Do
Colors:
White, Red and Black. These are the three highest sashes.
Our uniforms are black because in the Chinese culture, black is associated with life and white with death. Black is worn to weddings and white to funerals.
Tum Pai means "Central Way".
Your belt is a symbol of your knowledge and is not to be washed.
Kajukenbo originated in the Palama Province of Hawaii between 1947 and 1949.
Our salute is a sign of respect. We salute to show respect to the Sifu, to signify the begining or ending of training, to show respect to a higher rank, and to show that we are leaving our aggressions on the training floor unless absolutely necessary.
Tony Ramos brought Kajukenbo to the main land states in 1959.
Al Dascos brought Chaun Fa in 1964. In 1969 he developed Wun Hop Kuen Do meaning "combined fist and style."
Angles of Attack
Direct - Hit
Indirect - Fake, Hit
Combination - Hit, Hit
Immobilization - Trap, Hit
Broken Rhythm - Fake, Fake, Hit.
You gain power through Rotation, Penetration and Back-up Mass
Professor Bob Heur and Doug Bailey developed Tum Pai in 1971 - 1979. In 1984, Professor Emperado certified it as Northern Tum Pai.
Sillum Kung-Fu is the oldest and most widely practiced style in China, Practiced for centuries by the Shadin Buddhists. It teaches Hard and Soft styles; Tiger and Crane.
We do forms to practice our self-defense in a series of moves, rather one move at a time.
Our salute says "I cover my aggressions and mean you no harm." or "Peace over power." The fist Is yang and the knife-hand is yin.
