Appendix A - The Kenpo Kards

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Appendix A - The Kenpo Kards

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The Kenpo Kards is a project by EPAKS that presents all of the American Kenpo self-defense techniques, forms, and sets to a quick reference card, which can be used for study and entertainment. The Kenpo Kards were released in three (3) decks - beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Along with the Kards, EPAKS produced a guide book to help in the usage of both the kards and understanding of some of the foundational layout of American Kenpo.

 

Along with the physical version of the kards and guide book, EPAKS has released a digital version of each. The Kenpo Kards app is available in both the Google Play store and the Amazon App store. The digital guide book is available in the Google Play store, the Amazon digital book store, and the Barnes and Noble digital book store.

 

The Kenpo Kard app allows the user to quickly sort and / or choose kards to study, and allows for user to play back the list for practicing alone or with up to five (5) partners. The app has options to select the speed to play back the list, choose which yellow belt techniques to use in the sorting (old / new / both), and select the highest technique one has learned. This app is invaluable in helping to understand relations between techniques, and quickly grouping techniques by similarities - such as same attack, same side forward, same web of knowledge grouping, just to name a few.

 

One of the most important things the reader should be aware of is that it is not the intent of the Kenpo Kards project to teach the practitioner how to do American Kenpo. But, rather to help the practitioner in understanding and exploring the information contained in what they have learned from their instructor.