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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 research, study and entertainment. The Kenpo Kards were released in three (3) decks - beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Along with the Kards, EPAKS produced a guidebook 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 guidebook, EPAKS has released a digital version of each. The Kenpo Kards app is available on both the Google Play store and the Amazon App store. The digital guidebook is available on 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 the 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 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 as well as to quickly group 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 understand is it is not the intent of the Kenpo Kards project to teach the practitioner how to do American Kenpo. Rather, it is to help the practitioner to explore and understand the information contained in the parts of the system they have learned from their instructor.