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I was just poking around and came across a website for a guy who I trained with up to 4th Degree Black Belt who is now a 10th Degree “Grandmaster” in Shaolin Kempo. (Funny how many of them are around teaching some lame-ass version of Villari’s Shaolin Kempo Karate).

He’s got fast hands and flexible kicks and I always though of him as an excellent martial artist- and a pretty good guy overall.

I watched some of video samples and to the untrained eye, his techniques look very effective.

The experienced martial artist sees that the moves are superficial, trading real power from the body’s core for flashy 6,7, 8 hand strike patterns. Great if your attacked stands there and let’s you slap him around. But we know better than that.

I have heard Grandmaster Villari say many times that “Sometimes crude is good.”

If a  folding chair to the skull is what puts your opponent down for the count, I’m all for it! Baseball bat to the kneecaps? You bet!

A weapon of choice.

Crude beats flash just about every time.

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