Company: AJT Video Productionss
Name: Intermediate Grafting
Tape
Cost: $39.95 (buy 2 get 1 free)
Length of Tape/Time: 40 minutes
Number of
Moves/Techniques: 14
Return Policy: for damages and defects
Experiences
in dealing with this company: very polite and friendly
Instructor: Tim Bulot
Company's
Address: 1045 Cutoff Rd, Ennis TX, 75119
Company's Phone Number: 800-460-8799
Web
Page: http://www.ajtvp.com
E-Mail: ajtvideo@gmail.com
Main Grading Criteria:
1. Production/Tape
Quality: 10
2. Instructors demonstrated skill level: 10
3. Comprehension
Score/Immediate Understandng: 10
4. Degree to which this will make someone a
better Martial Artist: 10
5. Score on delivery vs. hype: 10
6. Degree to
which we'd recommend this product: 10
7. Wasted Time (The higher the number,
the less "fluff" and repetition): 9
8. Playback Score/Watching it over-and-over
again: 10
9. Would I purchase more of this company's or instructor's products:
10
10. Overall grade based on cost vs. value: 9
Total: 98% (Excellent
= 4.5 stars)
Secondary Grading Criteria:
1.
Beginners: Excellent
2. Intermediate: Excellent
3. Advanced: Excellent
4.
Time to benefit: Immediate
5. The need to buy additional tapes to understand
this one: a very minor concern, however some things were mentioned that might've
required previous tapes to fully understand.
Written Summary:
Kenpo,
TKD, and Grappling....all are well represented on the tape market in terms of quantity,
but alot fewer stand out in terms of quality. Tim Bulot has some of the best Kenpo
videos I've seen. Whereas many Kenpo video instructors attempt to show all the various
Kenpo self defense techniques and/or forms on video, Bulot takes it to the next level,
showing how to make all that stuff REALLY adapatable for any street situation. He
addresses the "what if's", so in case a street situation, angle of attack,
or an attackers response, is less than ideal, you still have alot of rapid options
available to you. And speaking of rapid, Bulot has some of the fastest hands I've
seen, and a sidekick that would make many TKD masters wish they could claim him as
their creation. Anyway, addressing the "what if's" in detail, is something
I've yet to see any Kenpo video instructor do well. In fact, if you own a set of
Kenpo videos by some other instructor, and feel after watching them that you're not
"street ready", I highly recommend Bulot's videos. I'll even go as far
as to say this, if I could roll back the clock 20 years, to the beginning of my own
martial arts training, this is the kind of guy I wish I'd started taking lessons
from. He's a thinking man's martial artist. He's not one of those guys who tells
you just to do something because he says so. Bulot explains things in superb detail,
and encourages people to ask questions. Just watching him made me see and think about
tons of different possibilities. In my opinion, as I've said before, the mark of
an excellent video instructor, is one who can help you see past the core contents
of what he's teaching you.
OK, enough praise about Mr. Bulot. Let's get to
what's on this video.
Each belt in American Kenpo has self defense techniques,
similar to what TKD'ers would call "one steps". Depending on the instructor,
there can be anywhere from 6-24 Kenpo self defense techniques required per belt.
Grafting, in terms of what Mr. Bulot teaches here, is adding one Kenpo self defense
technique on to the end of another, in such a way that it flows and makes sense.
Bulot does this extremely well by showing how one can combine the following Kenpo
self defense techniques:
1. Five Swords and Crossing Talon
2. Gift of Destruction
and Grapping Talon
3. Locking Horns and Circles of Protection
4. Thrusting
Prongs and Swinging Pendulum
5. Buckling Branch and Leaping Crane
6. Raining
Claw and Heavenly Ascent
7. Lone Kimono and Glancing Wing
A great video
for not only any Kenpo enthusiast, but anyone who wants to learn how to combine techniques,
so they have tons of possibilities for the street. Highly recommended.
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