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From: dimmaktimmah <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
To: shaolinkempo@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, November 8, 2009 10:08:00 PM
Subject: [Shaolin Kempo] Re: Inner power

Believe it or not the art you practice translates very well into the internal arts.  Some of Valari instructors went through certification training in internal arts such as chi kung.  Many of the movements from tai chi forms are found in kempos and combinations.  My instructor has required his blackbelts to learn a tai chi form to better see the similarity.  He teaches one to us through frist degree and second degree black belt. 
If you know of Kimo Ferreira's Kempo Jutsu and that Master Ingargiola of NY (shaolinkempo.com) is his inheritor.  Kimo is very vocal and demonstrative of the tai chi applications in kempo.  So the application of internal arts are there.  It really depends on your instructor how much they go into internal arts and aspects of shaolin kempo.  Both my original and my current insturctor were learned in internal arts.
As you go through the blackbelt ranks it might be beneficial for you to visit a tai chi seminar or class with a good instructor to learn how your movements translate.  and with this information you can improve your martial arts ability. 

So- Yes. 

Did that help?



--- In shaolinkempo@yahoogroups.com, "Scott" <plante.scott@...> wrote:
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> I am a brown belt in shaolin kempo and have been practising the art for about six years, and believe me I have nothing against training but???
> Does shaolin kempo at one point concentrate more on inner strenght than exterior stenght. Such as Chi?
>




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