About the Author: Ryan Wheaton has been teaching American Kenpo since 1991 and is the chief instructor at Arrowhead Martial Arts Studio in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is an internationally certified 6th degree black belt and personal student of 10th degree black belt Paul Mills. Ryan sits on the Board of Directors for the American Kenpo Karate International (AKKI) and is also a regular seminar presenter at AKKI National & International events.
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Many do not realize that in addition to being a martial artist and an author that Mr. Ed Parker, the founder of American Kenpo, was also an actor. He appeared in many films and shows over the years.
Here are some of the films and television shows Mr. Parker was in (taken from imdb.com). I have also included shows where he appeared as a stuntman.
Actor:
Stunts:
He also choreographed “The Perfect Weapon” using 100% American Kenpo but was not personally in the film.
Which ones have you seen? Leave your answers in the form of a comment below.
Here is a classic Jim Carrey Living Color sketch. He plays a Karate instructor who is teaching a women’s self defense class. A friend of mine has a piece of this clip (”Like A Lot of Beginning Students, You Attached me Wrong”) as my custom cell phone ring. After asking a few people if they saw it last night in class, I thought I would post it after finding out no one had.
Like it? Hate it? Leave your opinion in the form of a comment below.
Finally, a reality show worth watching!
If you haven’t yet heard about “Human Weapon” on the History Channel, you’re not alone. I just heard about it last week and set my TiVo to record it.
It’s a show about two guys who travel the world learning various martial arts. I just watched the “JUDO” and “KARATE” episodes back to back. All I can say is “Wow!”
The hosts, are Jason Chambers and Bill Duff. Jason is a mixed-martial-artist and professional fighter while Bill is a former professional football player and wrestler. Quite the odd couple but still it shows how two people from different backgrounds adapt and put their moves to the real deal test. They learn from various masters in a particular discipline then at the end of show they choose which one is to fight one of the systems top black belts (or equivalent). What a great concept!
New episodes come on every Friday either at 7pm or 8pm (thanks to TiVo, I don’t have to keep track of when shows come on!). This season, the hosts train and fight in following martial arts:
Who knows, maybe next season they will feature AKKI Kenpo?! Now wouldn’t that be something.
Has anyone else seen the show? Let me know in the form of a comment below.
