After 10.5 years of training Kenpo Karate, a mixed martial arts which has supposedly numerous amounts of influences including, Hawaian, Filipino, Okinawan, Chinese and Japanese martial arts, I was accepted as a third degree of a brown belt wearer.
Performing this for over a decade and having been teached by dozens of instructors, professors and masters, I can say that the world of martial arts as I have experienced it so far has been pretty interesting. It's not my most passionate leisure, but it remains important to me.
I'm looking forward towards the next Kenpo chapter I will have, which will not only include learning about the new upcoming techniques and forms I am about to perform, but it will most likely also be the comeback of me returning towards tournament activities.
I am also now authorized to start teaching others officially about Kenpo Karate, obviously after this has been approved in the right amount of timing and planning. Although my hearing isn't the best, I absolutely enjoy teaching others when it "clicks" and then receiving their satisfaction as compensation.
Of course, since Kenpo Karate's future is truthfully uncertain, considering that grandmaster Ed Parker did not name a successor, and that every school in the world is interpreting the teachings, the motions and the philosophy in their own way, I wonder if it will remain relevant or even evolve.
The political and philosophical sides of this martial arts is a very hot debate among the schools, and perhaps I might write about those big topics next time. For now, it's time to relax my muscles, remember my positioning stances, and prepare myself for the next step on the martial arts ladder.
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