I have read that list very recently, and most of the techniques were in the Tracy's curriculum when I was learning it.
Originally Posted by Dr. Kenpo
I've read several times in other forums about "Lost Techniques."
Does anyone have such a list, and why are these not into circulation anymore?
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I have read that list very recently, and most of the techniques were in the Tracy's curriculum when I was learning it.
Originally Posted by Dr. Kenpo
Quality outweighs quantity every time.
Spreading the Branch came from Reprimanding the Bears and was replaced by Captured Twigs.
The techniques Sword and Hammer, Alternating Maces, and Grasp of Death came from Jim Mitchell but the original techniques were The Pincher, Intellectual Departure, and Aggressive Twins.
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John M. La Tourrette (05-09-2007)
Dr. Kenpo
Were you referring to the EPAK techniques or the Tracy techniques, knowing that you are a Tracy stylist I was assuming you were asking about the Tracy techniques.
Quality outweighs quantity every time.
I am not certain if any were lost, per se. I teach Intellectual Departure and Spreading Branch, both found later on in Brown Belt or Black Belt extensions. The history of where the techniques are is out there. My first Kenpo Black was in a Traco or Tracy derived system. More techniques, more variations, but not necessarily more sophisticated.
Doc, Mr. Conatser, or any of the genuine Mr. Parker students can give you the "history" and where the techniques went or why abandoned or modified. For example Inward Defense became Delayed Sword, rearranged to teach and take advantage of and to teach principles, not just the movement. I particularly like the principle of Borrowed Force as applied in Delayed Sword, as v. Inward Defense (which is also fine for what it does).
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John M. La Tourrette (05-09-2007)
True Michael...but I think most people aren't still teaching these techniques.
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The studio I'm involved with teaches Aggressive Twins, Spreading Branch, and Intellectual Departure. We don't have Alternating Maces, Captured Twigs, Sword and Hammer, Circling Windmills, Reversing Circles, Fatal Cross, Or Unfurling Crane. It's not that we took those particular 7 out because we do them from time to time it's just that they are not in the curriculum. No room for the last 4 except in general practice in the studio.
Having read the rest of the thread, I cannot tell whether you are referring to Parker's Kenpo or Tracy's.Originally Posted by Dr. Kenpo
My understaning of Parker's tells me that he pared the system down to the 154 plus extensions and basically kept only the techniques that could be linked to the Master Keys.
As far as Tracy's, I have heard that there are roughly 200 techniques that are not in the Tracy's curriculum that are taught most often as routines in group classes.
Al Tracy has talked about putting them on paper in the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th degree manuals, not as requirements, but as references for those that may want to learn and use them.
Dave
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Tracy's Kenpo!Originally Posted by Kenpodave
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A listing of techniques described as "lost" may be found at www.kenpousa.com/missbelt.htm. They are Chinese/Tracy's techniques, and as stated on the site, they are still taught at some schools (including the one where I was a student).
The Missing Belt Techniques I read on that Website,are still mostly used in the Tracys System today...
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All of the techniques listed are still a part of the Tracy's curriculum. Falling Heel is now called Falling Blades, and Spreading the Reeds is Double Blades.Originally Posted by Randy Strausbaugh
There are, however, approximately 200 other techniques, that, according to Ted Sumner, never made it into the belt curriculum. Dr. Sumner, as well as a few others that have the techs written down, still use them in group classes.
Dave
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Mr C told me that these techniques aren't really lost, they just aren't required as a part of the belt charts. What he told me that as we become more comfortable with the system and understand the process better, we go back periodically and reexamine it. In each of our reexaminations we look at the different points of view of how the system was developped. Intellectual Departure may have been deemed a bit sophisticated for a yellow belt learning the system for the first time, but what about a black belt that is reexaming the system?
Just because you do something one way, does not mean that everyone else does it that way, or that it is even the correct way.
This is why I am lost on whether we are discussing Tracy's or Parker's. Intellectual Departure is one of the Master Keys of EPAK, but is not currently in the system. Circle of China is the Tracy's technique that most closely resembles Intellectual Departure. It is taught in blue belt from the left knee down position.Originally Posted by Seig
Regarding lost techniques and curriculums, I agree with Mr. C's assessment above. There is also only so much that will fit into a curriculum without it getting too bogged down. I once asked Al Tracy why there were 5 variations of Front Bearhug. He responded with, "I didn't want to write the other 85 of them down."
Dave
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Well since this the Tracy's section and Dr. Kenpo said it was the Tracy's techniques I will assume we are still discussing the Tracy's curriculum.
Quality outweighs quantity every time.
Correct young one, now drink up!Originally Posted by Rob Broad
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Jim "contributed" to the creation of these techniques, however Mr. Parker created several versions of the actual technniqes himself. Jim performed his versions of these techniques on video and do not resemble the final versions as I know them.Originally Posted by Seabrook
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Minor correction. Many of the techniques in Tracy's were changed to intentionally, at least in name only, differentiate from the Parker material. In many cases the technique itself was essentially the same but the names were changed. In other cases, names remained the same with minor variation on technique themes.Originally Posted by kenposatori
The stories of Parker "stripping" the system and leaving out techniqes is only partially true. Parker never installed certain elements in his commercial versions of Kenpo whereas Tracy commercial versions counted every variation on the same technique as a separate technique. What Tracy called a separate technique was addressed in the Parker commercial versions as "what if's." It is simply a numbers game and neither number reflects the true nature of either material.
What is more important is to address how the most popular version of commercial and motion based Kenpo is actually a divergence from the Parker material as opposed to being THE Parker material.
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There are NO LOST TECHNIQUES......... only ones you are not aware of......Originally Posted by Dr. Kenpo
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