(from a a recent conversation on Facebook)
Category Completion is a teaching concept but more importantly, a constructive concept to allow the three-dimensional creation of the system and how concepts and principles interact with each other from any point of observation. Relationships build family groupings, families groups build sequential flow and position recognition during a confrontation.
Category flow builds a holistic kenpo system that fits the individuals needs.
Choice of what you like and don't like is made available to the student to make comparisons and choose what fits their body and emotional content. - Mr. Larry Tatum
Category completion is designed to make kenpo EASIER to understand, not complicate it. It is done to simplify the relationship between attacks, various techniques and cross referencing them. The phrase Mr. Parker would say often was "For every move, concept, principle of definition, there is an opposite and reverse". - Mr. Joe Rebelo
It teaches you position recognition and helps understand the system, which in turn makes you faster at responding once you have contact. - Mr. Jason Arnold
My teacher, Mr. Planas, often says “you learn to be spontaneous only by being spontaneous”!! I don’t think there is a better comment on the subject. To reiterate, Category Completion is not a magic pill that makes kick a$$ if you just memorize all the relationships in the system! There is NO replacement for quality basics drilled numerous times, and spontaneous training. Perceptual speed aside, where Category Completion is intended to aid is mental speed, by facilitating efficient motion within the Universal Pattern, as you respond to the attack. Strong basics should take care of the rest.
With regards to the Equation Formula, the Equation Formula tells you what to do, Category Completion shows you how to do it! But like Billy Mays used to say, “there’s more”. Instead of just showing technique modification, it addresses footwork, attack angles, strike patterns, opposites and reverses, etc. so to conclude, Category Completion combines concepts, such as Equation Formula, opposites and reverses, and so on, and puts them within physical context within the Universal Pattern. - Mr. Max Bychkov
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