Huk Planas Kenpo Form 4

[@Observer-kw7vu]

Good stuff and precision, especially and walk-through and teaching pace.

[@sgs3831]

Master Planas's footwork is just magnificent 😮

[@SecretsOfMartialArts]

The best Long 4 demo in so far!!! Pure technical performance for the Forms's reference.

[@MSTCND]

I'm APPALED at the lack of respect show here! Even if you're not a Kenpoist, this man is, most likely, your senior. Have some damn respect! And, trust me, get some mat-time with this "old man", and I assure you... at full-speed... Mr. Planas will make you feel what he's doing is NO JOKE. So easy for armchair warriors to speak of what they don't know. {shakes head in disguest}

[@mauriciomendoza7375]

Muy lindo videos uno de los maestros más representativos del kenpo karate saludos hermosa arte👍❤️

[@roysfavorites9663]

Awesome video of an awesome guy.

[@claudes.whitacre1241]

He's not doing the form at full speed. He's just walking through it. Kenpo isn't my martial art, but I have several DVDs of Huk Planas, and I can say that his knowledge of striking is deep. His movements are incredibly economical. His timing is perfect. And all fighters...all instructors...get old.

[@SuperKenster1]

I like Huk he's far Senior to Larry Tatum and Speakman yet he's to humble to wear anything but a Black Belt.

[@zenshinacademy4096]

a good clue this system comes from Chinese styles, really, really long forms.

[@vissco406]

Anyone who has "Super" in his name is too arrogant to know that 90% of what he is doing is "illegal" in your world. Most likely a statement from a MMA fighter. Suppose you feel that there is no good stuff that comes from "traditional" arts, MMA=Mixed "Martial Arts" All the arts in MMA are watered down for the rules. You "train" to feel some one "tapping out", not how to AVOID THE PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.

[@bahamondeskenpo]

exelente..

[@MSTCND]

Well said! {full salute}

[@kungfusansootsoilihofuthun8895]

You must include spirit with heavy power and speed. Be ravenous rabid tiger! Train as you fight, fight as you train

[@jlschuster]

Karate guys learn how to strike with timing, power and speed that is still useful; and Huk is teaching these principles via a form, again useful if you get it.But you are correct kenpo’s weakness is on the ground, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still useful. And it is a self defense art not a sport art. If you were fighting two dudes in a bar would you like to be on the ground with one of the two? Not everyone is going to be in the cage.

[@Deilgyre]

Thanks! Got Long Form 5 too? :D

[@VasiliSabanadze5432]

прекрасная боевая система

[@kenpoguy28]

Wow I have to agree the lack of repect here is aweful. This man is one on Parkers original students and I guarentee he can beat the snot out of all of you. This is an instructional video on a form, and for those actuall kenpoist out there you know there is alot of hidden information here and in all the forms for that matter and are not neccisarily the way that would be performed in a real fight. I don't think that Mr. Planas would want this on youtube being that he has no tapes posted himself.

[@gotmama2]

Amen. This is a very small portion of an instructional video that Master Planas put out with Master Rick Fowler many years ago (part of a series). The entire tape (I think it was only ever put out on VHS) goes on to explain the why's of every single move in this form ad nauseum. If you can find a full copy of this tape, and study it, you'll truly understand the form. I've attended a couple of seminars with Master Planas, and not only is he an awe-inspiring Kenpo practitioner, he is the best teacher if you really want to understand what the techniques and forms are meant to teach. That's probably why Ed Parker chose Planas to manage the Pasadena school.

[@Knight192]

i like the the first , eleventh . and fourteenth kick,poke,spin,thumb,cat,and back but i could do without the 27th kick,poke,elbow, sweep, back to front, down pow then pop...should be replaced with a in out, back, thumb, break and left to right poke and elbow double chop finishing off with a thundering fist foot slice

[@bartmormino907]

I wrestled in high school on a mat and I hear people say Kempo's weakness is on the ground. How many people want to learn how to fight if they had to do it on 130 degree asphalt with rocks. I will take my stand up any day. The ground cuts off a large plain of motion and mobility is a factor. A true Kempo artist would destroy a jujitsu guy if he could use all his weapons.

[@SuperKenster1]

Man this guy should be a Judge at a Chilli cook-off or a contestant in a pie eating contest!

[@gotmama2]

This "old fart" has influenced the way tens of thousands of martial artists move, through his years managing Grand Master Parker's school in Pasadena, through the thousands of students in his lineage, through his decades of seminars world-wide, and through his videos. I've attended Grandmaster Planas' seminars, and trust me, you did not want to be his uke. He would not need to have much endurance in a real fight, because he would probably kill or maim you in the first 15 seconds, especially if you make the mistake of dismissing him as "this old fart". In American Kenpo, btw, the forms are a sort of encyclopedia for study of motion and power principles, not a simulation of combat. The form is not designed to be pretty for tournaments, nor for your entertainment.

[@InformationIsTheEdge]

@@gotmama2 I hope you noticed your reply has more "likes" than the original post. Because yours was sincere, informed and respectful while the other was likely an ignorant troll.

[@RussellReinsch]

A little bit of Shoto kan similarities there. Seem to have skipped Long 3 though

[@VicNorth2023]

Interestingly enough he did Shotokan but then a number of styles have Shotokan roots as Shotokan has other roots which in turn can be traced back to Okinawa and China and Kenpo has a lot of Chinese influence

[@SuperKenster1]

Man this stuff is like Pro wrestling fun to watch but useless otherwise

[@sgs3831]

Anyone that thinks this is how he would fight does not understand what the purpose of this is. Forms or kata in this or other martial iare meant to teach principles. Real fights, spencially, life or death situations are chaotic so it is really stupid to think an experienced martial artists would use a predefined sequence of movements. However, if trained properly, memory muscle will take over when needed depending on the situation.