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06-23-2008, 01:06 AM
To answer your question, you determine the "parent" of a martial art by learning about the people who created the art in question had learned and in what environment it was developed.
The "parent" art of American Kenpo is Karate. The man who developed the system started in Karate and ported what he'd learned in that style into his own system.
Kendo developed out of Kenjutsu; Kenjutsu was what people were studying when the Katana was still weapon of choice in Japan, and it was deadly. Kendo uses the same principles and movements, but it is not a combative style.
TKD, iirc, was developed after the Korean military's system fell out of use, but there were still people who practiced it that later developed TKD from their own knowledge and that of other people from other styles. (iirc)
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Originally Posted by noodle
But, that's always f-ed up individuals that kill in secluded areas up high in the mountains. Thats neither the army nor the governments agenda! I hope those people rott in hell, but an army or government shouldn't be judged by psycho individuals.
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