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- From: roberts@pogo.wv.tek.com (Robert Stroud)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Kenpo
- Message-ID: <14151@pogo.wv.tek.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:42:44 GMT
- References: <BzDDE4.B1K@world.std.com> <12234@cayman.COM>
- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR.
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- In article <12234@cayman.COM> mccoy@cayman.com (Michael McCoy) writes:
- >In <BzDDE4.B1K@world.std.com>, eclipse@world.std.com (Mark Urbin) writes:
- >>Kempo (or kenpo, it's an accent thing. How you pronouce
- >>depends on what part of Japan you are from) is the
-
- >blocks and more training in kicking. The instructor emphasized we were
- >studying keNpo, not keMpo -- white belts were required to spell it as part
- >of the first test. So.... are the two styles variations on a theme, or are
- >they really different styles? (Or is kenpo/kempo so generic that it covers
- >almost any style?)
-
- Am I the only one in rec.martial-retorts who finds the
- kenpo v. kempo a bit silly?
-
- If you right the n and the m in phoenetic (kana) Japanese
- is is done with the same character. I really believe
- that someone started calling it keNpo because his teacher
- wrote is that way in English. And someone else had the
- luck of the draw and ended up with keMpo. It is just
- like the use of Mr. Okawa and Mr. Ohkawa they are just two
- different ways of writing the same thing in a foreign
- language.
- --
- Robert Stroud Robert_Stroud@simulacrum.wv.tek.com
- Obukan Kendo Club Portland Oregon USA
-