Promotions and New Learning

We now have 10 students in the Mon-Wed. adult class. Chris joined us recently. He's a black belt in Shotokan and he wants to learn Kenpo. He's been doing a great job and was recently awarded his yellow belt. So far so good, but he's not too keen on the hugging part! Aaron was given his second stripe, as well as Mitch. Claudia has been showing some tremendous improvement and even ventured into an inter-school tournament where she sparred and did very well.

The new motto of the school is, "When you miss a class, you miss a lot." Every class we've been going over key kenpo principles, learning new techniques and generally having a good time.

The tennis ball drill is a great favorite and our 'point of origin' drill was an interesting learning experience. We got in a stance facing each other and one person would throw and block and/or a strike or two strikes, doing their checks as appropriate, then freezing. Their partner would then do the same. We practiced finding the closest weapon and moving from point of origin.

These guys are doing an outstanding job. It's great to see Matt and April improve each time they come, Marcos knows everything (just ask him) and Mario is getting better all the time. I always enjoy Trisha and it's encouraging to see how much better she is getting at her neutral bows and closed-kneel stances. And Corrina -- she's so quiet, but yet she says so much. It's a joy to have her in class. I feel quite lucky to have such a great group of students.

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Sacramento Kenpo Karate is located in Sacramento, CA and we teach the traditional American Kenpo Karate as taught by Ed Parker.  If you're looking for a great Sacramento Karate school, please come by!

Sacramento Kenpo Karate Class

For a holiday, we sure had a great turnout. It was great to have Marcos back in class. He's been out for a few weeks working hard on his studies.

Justin has started training in earnest for his black belt.

We had a visitor, Ryan, visiting again from Redding. He and Amy ran through a bunch of blue belt techniques and the rest of the crowd worked on Locked Wing.

We ran a new drill where one partner throws a pad and the other partners either kicks or punches it out of the air. Great fun, helps with focus and keeps students from reaching with their punches.


American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style designed to promote good self-esteem, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. We teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility under the direction of Mr. Jeff Speakman.

Our students get better and better!

Our students are getting better and better. We worked on a variety of new skills during our last class and it's great to see the tremendous progress being made. We have two students who are getting ready to test for their yellow belts and we continue to learn new Orange belt material weekly.

Most of the students are working to master the Long Form One kata and we've had a great time adding new drills to our class routine. We'll be having class this Monday, so we'll see you there!!

--Amy

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American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style designed to promote good self-esteem, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. We teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility under the direction of Mr. Jeff Speakman.

New Student - And Yellow 1 kata

At class last night, we had a new student, Aaron (my husband), who joined us. Mitch, Matt, April, Tricia, Corrina and Mario all were there working on Yellow 1 kata, short one and two new Orange belt techniques. We learned Repeating Mace and Crossing Talon. We missed Marcos last night and hope to see him at the next class.

April and Tricia looked especially good doing their punches. I can tell they've been practicing!

As usual, a good time was had by all. Again, we'd like to welcome Aaron to the class. --Amy

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American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style designed to promote good self-esteem, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. We teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility under the direction of Mr. Jeff Speakman.

More Pictures from Las Vegas

Larry Tatum's Summer Kenpo Camp Kenpo Martial Artists hamming it up and striking a pose.

Kenpo people love to smile for the camera. We had a wonderful banquet on Saturday Night.





American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style designed to promote good self-esteem, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. We teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility under the direction of Mr. Jeff Speakman.

American Kenpo Karate in Vegas

Larry Tatum's Vegas Camp 2005

Lots of choking, blocking, hitting and other fabulous kenpo things happened at the Tatum Vegas Summer Camp.

There's nothing better than getting in your gi, meeting a group of like-minded individuals and hitting each other a bunch. Gotta love it!

Much karate happened here at camp. Twelve interesting seminars and a lot of learning. We enjoyed demonstrations from Canada, fabulous food and great company.






American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style designed to promote good self-esteem, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. We teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility under the direction of Mr. Jeff Speakman.

Kenpo Karate

Las Vegas Summer Camp 2005

Techniques were happening, lounging was happening and lots of learning was happening at the Las Vegas Summer Camp. We all made lots of friends and learned a ton of interesting information.

A Kenpoist takes it easy before the Friday Night test.


Kevin Kuliga works with Amy Long.

Camey pins Amy during a seminar.
Camey Psaromatis works with Larry Tatum at one of his seminars in Texas.

Mike Lambert teaches a student about kenpo control and Camey hams it up with Mr. Tatum.

The Camp was an amazing amount of fun and we're all looking forward to Summer Camp 2006 in Las Vegas as well.



American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.    

Kenpo Camp Seminar Pictures

Las Vegas Summer Camp 2004

In June of 2004, we all met in Las Vegas for kenpo fun and much sharing of knowledge.

These are some of the pictures from the First Annual Larry Tatum Las Vegas Summer Camp. Amy Long and Cal (don't know his last name) tested for their black belts. Cal is from Canada.





The awards banquet was fun. People dressed up and looked fancy and awards of recognition were given to all the instructors. Juan Serrano was one of the instructors, as was Darryl Liner.

There is a group shot of all the instructors as well as a group shot of the brown belt class -- this one taught by Patrick Kennedy, who came from Ireland to share his knowlege.






After the test, several black belts struck a pose. Typical kenpoists -- hams to the core.
Amy and Cal buddy up, as well as Amy with her instructor right after the test.

Since Amy is the one who put this blog together, naturally, she's in a lot of these pictures. Amy and Billy Lear take a few moments of rest between seminars.


American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style designed to promote good self-esteem, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. We teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility under the direction of Mr. Jeff Speakman.

Sacramento Kenpo Karate

Still More Pictures From Summer Camp!!

At the awards banquet, Mr. Hibben displayed the beautiful knife he created for the event.




We learned some amazing take downs and 'kenpo control' during Mr. Lambert's seminar, as demonstrated by these two black belts at the seminar.

All the participants in the seminar had a great time watching and learning.

Note the technique with Kevin Kuliga! (below)

Gil Hibben -- Premiere knife maker honored us with his presence and his amazing knives created just for the event.

Amy Long and Camey Psaromatic Looking tough. The demo team did a great presentations for all of us. We really enjoyed seeing their Kenpo in action.



American Kenpo Karate is a hard/soft style of martial arts, created by Ed Parker, designed to promote good self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance, excellent defensive skills and is a lot of fun. If you want to learn the ultimate in self defense, we teach Kenpo Karate in Rancho Cordova at Mather Sports Facility.