[The Axe Murderer]

Isn't Chinese Boxing like Kempo?

[Gong||Jau]

I think Chinese Boxing is a somewhat outdated term. Older translations of art names and words in general translate some words into "boxing" that refer more to fighting in general (I think the current accepted translation is "fist"). Example: Xingyiquan = Form Mind Fist/Form Mind "Boxing". If you have a more in-depth question about this, ask Wilhelm, not me, since he's the resident expert on the language (I don't even speak it - I just know a few words).

[BLACK PANTA]

Wouldn't Chuan Fa be closer to Kempo?

[Wilhelm von Wankenstein]

Quanfa and kempo are exactly the same when written - the characters are just pronounced differently depending on your choice of language.

[lakan_sampu]

I just read now something about Feng Wei in Tekken 5....His art is Chinese KENPO, yes, kenpo...I thought kenpo was japanese but...It's a little bit misleading...
Is there such a Chinese Kenpo?

[Hengest]

Originally Posted by lakan_sampu

I just read now something about Feng Wei in Tekken 5....His art is Chinese KENPO, yes, kenpo...I thought kenpo was japanese but...It's a little bit misleading...
Is there such a Chinese Kenpo?

Don't read too much into the word "kenpo" mate. It's a very broad term and, contrary to popular belief, doesn't actually refer to a single style in the original Japanese.

I have the Japanese edition of Tekken 5 and I just checked the instruction booklet to see what Feng Wei's style is in Japanese. As I suspected, it's simply "chugoku kenpo", which, roughly translated means "Chinese ch'uan fa" or "Chinese boxing". What's happened here is that whoever translated the info on the game from the Japanese got sloppy and translated the "Chinese" part, but not the "kenpo".

To answer your question directly, I suppose you could say there's such a thing as Chinese kenpo: it ch'uan fa or kung fu, nothing more.

[BLACK PANTA]

yeah one of those fighting games has a dude and a chick's style as JKD, when it was Jun Fan.

[Stg]

Originally Posted by BLACK PANTA

yeah one of those fighting games has a dude and a chick's style as JKD, when it was Jun Fan.

virtua fighter 4. not really much of jkd though, just the jab/cross(and sloppy looking at that) and one kick. the rest is stuff that bruce either did in the movies or just made up stuff.

[lakan_sampu]

Oh I see...thanks guys...

that one leads me to another question...what's Jet Li's style? I read that he's one of Beijing's wushu team members in his youth....
1 more thing...what's the style he used in "The One"? the harder one...the "bad" Jet Li's....

[Gong||Jau]

He uses a pretty ubiquitous style known as Ko Re Ogra Fe. He was a member of the national wushu team I believe, but that's all gymnastics and forms competition, not combat. Everything in his movies is just movie fu.