The Kenpo Styles

Due to Kenpo’s long history and its lineage in China at the Shaolin Temples where it was known as Chuan Fa (both meaning the first fist law or law of the fist in which the Bodhisattva warriors fist was the protector of their land and religion), and the fact of it being a big blanket term for martial arts like wu shu means martial arts in Chinese, because in the Shaolin Temples they used whatever was necessary much like before in the Han Dynasty during times of war.

With this said, in Chinese Kenpo, you can take just about any segment out of this vast system and it would make a single style of expression (either if it is the kicks, strikes, chin na, tai chi, ground fighting, weaponry, or the five animals).

The five animals are in our advanced training since the animals were derived during its reign in the Shaolin Temples which was later than the feudal wars in early China during the 200-400 A.D. rule of the Han dynasty that was later broken apart. Beginner training in our Chinese Kenpo consists of war like defense for survival. Today it is street defense.  

• The Five Animals are:
• CRANE
• SNAKE
• TIGER
• LEOPARD
• DRAGON 

 

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