We at Dark Dragon Kenpo™ Karate believe in the rapid response and quick disposal philosophy of Kenpo to include making the techniques familiar to the practitioner. Repetition is what allows the methods and movement to be implanted and available from the practitioner’s short term memory. Having the information in one’s short term memory is the key to having the technique work when it is needed. Familiarity is also a key to rapid learning, to rapid retention and to rapid response. Familiarity is developed thru the teaching of techniques that have similarities and build on and with basics and movements already practiced and learned.

Psychologists will advise that humans have certain basic needs that must be met. Safety/security is one of those needs in the hierarchy of needs. Thus to fulfill, that as well as the need to have the information immediately available coupled with a lack of confusion, Dark Dragon Kenpo™ endeavors to teach techniques only and techniques that get the job done, quickly, efficiently with the least amount of confusion from which to draw the response. We teach the why’s so that the what if’s are answered. It is our belief that some techniques in Kenpo take too long to develop and can create confusion when a defender needs the technique the most. Thus we draw our techniques primarily from the Ed Parker American Kenpo system, from other strains of Kenpo as well as techniques unique to Dark Dragon Kenpo™.