Tae+Kwon+Do++Karate

=**Kenpo Karate**=

Karate, which originated in China, means "fighting with no weapons." Divided into many different styles, Kenpo Karate has emerged as one of the most popular forms of karate. Over the centuries, generations of martial artists modified Kenpo into the style that is practiced today. Consisting of forms and sparring, Kenpo Karate requires both mental and physical strength, as well as discipline. Martial artists perform forms, a series of movements and attacks, from memory in front of an audience forward and backwards. These forms include techniques, poses, and stances, and as a result, teach the martial artist fighting strategies. The pressure of presenting memorized forms both backward and forward in front of an audience develops the mental training, flexibility, and self-confidence needed in a martial artist. Furthermore, the stamina needed in order to maintain a steady rhythm while doing multiple forms strengthens the physical ability of the martial artist. Discipline, which develops through forms, comes from having to consistently practice the same form over and over again. Apart from forms, sparring also teaches important techniques. Sparring, a form of training in which actual combat takes place, challenges the strategies learned by a martial artist through forms. In street fighting, the bigger opponent generally emerges as the winner, overlooking strategy and speed. In Kenpo, however, the person with the quickest attacks and the most knowledge of techniques emerges as the winner, not the bigger opponent.

As a result, Kenpo Karate develops combat skills, self-confidence, mental discipline, and physical strength, which are carried over into all other aspects of the person's life, shaping the person unlike any other sport.