Mr. Ron Chapel on Positional Checks

(from a recent conversation on Facebook)

Mr. Parker inserted Positional Checks into His Kenpo Karate to avoid the more significant Pak Sao that he himself used instead of a Positional Check in the Chinese Kenpo that preceded EP Kenpo Karate, but few seemed to notice the difference between how the techniques sounded between the two if nothing else. It causes students to give equal consideration to what the attacker IS doing with what the attacker MIGHT do. In that world blocking a left punch with a Right Extended Outward Block required a Left-hand Positional Check at your right ribcage. Few seem to recognize it wasn't the best thing to split your resources when addressing an attack, and that doing so also eliminated and contradicted the Double Check Factor. And while Mr. Parker utilized the Positional Check in explanations of techniques when teaching in seminars, when he exploded to demonstrate the techniques in "real-time" the astute would recognize the Positional Checks totally disappeared in application. The term and application of the Positional Check however is still valid, just not when used in this manner.