what is the difference between shaolin kempo kung fu and kenpo karate is it that kempo kung fu is more kung fu based and kenpo karate is while a karate style has some kung fu to it
Are you meaning Shaolin Kempo karate? If so, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Kempo_Karate I looks like Shaolin Kempo Karate came from Kenpo Karate but more kung fu was integrated into the system.
A rose by any other name... I think you need to provide us some more information – a specific website or did you visit a nearby school? Making an assumption but by those very names it implies some type of Americanized hybrid style. For you are using Chinese – Japanese – and Okinawan sourced terminology. If you drop Shaolin and just use the terms kenpo and karate together – on translation: Fist Law Empty Hand – worthy of placement in the Department of Redundancy Department, eh? Not to be obsessed entirely on semantics vs. efficacy - just as many a legitimate TKD dojang back in the day had “Korean Karate” on their school signage. Now nails on a chalkboard for me is the term: “Samurai Karate”
If you mean the system(s) descended from American Kenpo it's American Kenpo with some other stuff,including a lot of marketing to convince people there's a lot of good Gung Fu in it.We've had threads on SK before,including vids of their improperly executed traditional Chinese forms.Use the search function. I've yet to meet a CMA practitioner who recognizes it as a modern Gung Fu system.I think maybe the Shaolin Temple recognizes it,but what does one expect of the Shaolin Temple?
One if the only shukokai dojo's in Australia is called this. I dislike it because it was one of the Okinawans only weapons against the oppressive rule of the Japanese Satsuma Samurai clan.
