Shaolin American Kempo Karate

Dear Martial Arts Friends,

Remember those Kempo Karate combinations you learned? The ones that seemed... impractical? You're not alone. After the success of my previous series, I was flooded with questions: "Why don't these work in real fights?" "What are they really teaching?"

Frankly, I was alarmed by how little even high-ranking black belts understood. I get it. I was there too, back in the '70s, thinking: "They'd never just stand there!" "No one attacks like that!" "Why can't I use these in sparring?"

The truth? It wasn't the teachings that were flawed—it was the teacher.

My journey took a dramatic turn when a new Sensei, a student of an "old school inquisitive Master," took over. He revealed the real teachings hidden within the movements, the secrets encoded in the numbers, and the true purpose of each attack.

Think of Gene Hackman's line in Superman: "Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe." That's the difference between instructors.👌

One teacher showed me ten techniques. Another showed me ten things in one technique. If they can't TEACH you anything, they'll SHOW you everything.

The knowledge is there—you just need the right guide. And now, I can be that guide.

By popular demand, I've created a series of videos that will decode the hidden knowledge within your Kempo Karate combinations. Prepare to breathe new life into your skills and your understanding of the art.

WARNING: You'll have to unlearn a lot of what you thought you knew. 

Just like I and the Masters I trained with did.

These lessons reveal not only how to win in life-or-death situations, but also what not to do.

Imagine flying to me for these lessons, costing you $500-$1000 in travel and expenses.

OR…

Download them NOW for just $19-$29 and unlock the secrets instantly!

Each 30-minute lesson is packed with groundbreaking insights, and you'll also receive exclusive BONUS videos!

Don't miss out. Scroll down to learn more and transform your Kempo Karate forever! 👇👇👇

Vol. 1

WARNING: If You’ve Been Taught To Use Your Kicks This Way in a Real Fight, You Are Giving Your Aggressor a Free Ticket To Take Your Balance, Put You on the Asphalt, and Smash Your Face In!

Dear Friend,

It happens in a split second.

You’re forced to defend yourself. You decide to use your legs—the absolute most powerful weapons on your body. You throw what you think is a lightning-fast front kick straight into the guy's groin or the inside of his thigh.

But instead of dropping to his knees, he catches your leg.

Now you’re on one leg. Your balance is instantly completely gone. And you know exactly what happens next. You are in the single most dangerous situation a person can face in combat.

Why did this happen? It happened because you were taught a lie. You were taught by an instructor who told you to focus entirely on the extension of your kick.

Well, I was already a 4th-degree black belt when I finally learned the real secret from a true Master. And what he told me changed everything I thought I knew about the "art" of karate. He looked at me and said:

"Anybody can throw a kick. I can take a guy right off the street, tell him to bend his knee, snap it, and he can throw a kick. But landing in a perfectly solid stance, prepared to continue the fight immediately... now that is the art."

If you want to know how to make your kicks 100% impossible to grab, how to inject a sudden 40% boost of pure kinetic energy into your strikes, and how to use the hidden "master keys" of combat movement, then this might be the most important letter you ever read.

Here is the truth:

Most martial artists throw a kick and let it "linger" out there for a fraction of a second. That fraction of a second is all a street-hardened thug needs to scoop your ankle and dump you on your head.

The secret to a street-safe kick isn't how fast you throw it out—it's how fast you snap it back.

Think of a whip. Or think of a regular bath towel. If you want to snap someone with a towel, it’s not the forward motion that creates the bite—it's the violent, sudden pullback. That exact same principle applies to your leg. The pullback of your front kick must be significantly faster than the extension. 

When you master this "whip" effect, your strike transfers 100% of its energy into the target and vanishes before your opponent even realizes he’s been hit.

It makes your leg all but impossible to grab. Even Bruce Lee wrote about this exact concept in his private Jeet Kune Do notes years ago!

Have you ever noticed your kicks missing the target under high-stress sparring or pressure? It’s because you’re looking at the foot.

Here is a minor lesson that yields major results: Your knee is the gun sight for your front kick.

Wherever you point that knee is exactly where your kick is going to go. If you point it low, it goes low. If you point it high, it goes high. If you want to drop a man instantly by driving the ball of your foot into his groin or shattering the nerves on the inside of his leg, you don’t aim with your foot. You aim by driving your knee directly at the target first, then letting the whip snap.

When beginners kick, they look like they're walking a tightrope. Their hands flail out wildly to the sides just to keep them from falling over.

But if you want to turn a standard front kick into an advanced, devastating "Combination Number Six" masterpiece, you have to look at how God designed the human body to move.

When you take a normal step forward with your right foot, your right hand naturally sways back a little bit to counterbalance, right? You don't walk like a stiff robot. Your body naturally seeks equilibrium.

When you learn how to intentionally counterbalance your upper body during a kick—dropping one hand back into the perfect kinetic chain while the other hand guards or strikes—something incredible happens:

• You instantly inject 30% to 40% more torque and raw energy into the kick compared to keeping your shoulders square.
• You automatically set your hands up for the next two or three strikes, exactly like a professional pool player who positions the cue ball perfectly for the next shot.
• You unlock the "Opposite-Reverse" effect. While you are completely focused on destroying the guy in front of you, that counterbalancing hand dropping backward becomes a highly effective, unexpected strike to the groin of any secondary attacker trying to sneak up behind you!

All of this critical information comes directly from a rare instructional video that strips away the fluff and hands you the raw, mechanical truths of combat.

You’ll see exactly how to utilize the traditional Horse Stance as an isolation training tool to master your balance (and learn why you should never actually fight from it). 

You'll discover how to keep your hands fully "on guard" without moving a single muscle in your upper body while your legs do the damage.

Stop throwing dangerous, slow, lazy kicks that put your life at risk on the street.

Claim your copy of this powerhouse instructional video today, master the "Master Key" kick, and ensure that the next time you deliver a strike, you land perfectly solid, fully balanced, and completely ready to end the fight on your own terms.

Vol. 2

THE DEADLY "HALLWAY OF 108 TRAPS" AND THE MASTER KEY TO KEMPO FIGHTING POWER!

If your martial arts teacher told you that a standard front kick is going to stop a 250-pound raging bear dead in his tracks... you need to find a new teacher right now.

Here’s the cold, hard truth most instructors are too afraid (or too weak) to admit to their students:

From: Grandmaster Jim Brassard

Dear Friend,

If a 225-pound New England Patriots linebacker comes charging at you on the street with murder in his eyes, your standard commercial studio "point karate" kick isn't going to do a damn thing. You are going to get run over, stomped, and left on the pavement.

Most of what is being taught on the internet and in strip-mall dojos today under the name of "self-defense" is complete garbage. It’s got no timing, no anatomical leverage, and zero understanding of real violence. That’s exactly why Kempo isn’t as popular as it should be—because people are being taught fantasy instead of lethal reality.

But it doesn't have to be that way for you.

Years ago, deep inside the ancient, blood-soaked history of the Shaolin Temple, there was a final test. A test so brutal, so unforgiving, that legend says many priests were killed just trying to pass it.

It was a long, dark corridor. Set into the floor were 108 hidden planks.

When a warrior stepped on a plank, it instantly released a heavy wood-and-iron attack dummy from the wall—striking, kicking, and lunging from the blind spots. The heavier the warrior was, the harder and faster those dummies flew out. The warrior had to defend, evade, and strike back through 108 consecutive traps.

If they survived the 108th dummy, they earned the right to lift the burning iron urn of coals with their bare forearms, branding the Tiger into their right arm and the Dragon into their left.

The Tiger gave them the power to kill like an animal. The Dragon gave them the spiritual wisdom to control it.

Today, those 108 traps are preserved inside the 108 Combinations of Shaolin Kempo. But here is the secret almost nobody understands:

Once you learn how to "tease" the true lesson out of the combination, you unlock an unfair advantage on the street. You gain the exact rules and regulations that keep your body safe while turning your limbs into an unstoppable fighting machine.

I have just finished burning a revolutionary, deep-dive instructional video series. It's called Going Deep Inside the Shaolin Kempo Combinations.

In my original videos, I only gave brief, 2-to-3-minute overviews just to teach the basic movements. 

But in this masterclass series, we go microscopic. We explore the hidden anatomy inside the techniques, how they trigger hidden master keys across the entire system, and how to weaponize them for brutal street encounters.

Here is a small taste of what you will discover the moment you pop this video into your player:

• Why We Start with Combination 6 (And It’s Not Just Because It’s Easy): The ancient Pythagoreans called 6 the first perfect number. St. Augustine wrote that God created the world in 6 days because the number itself is perfect. On the 6th combination, we begin creating a Master.
• The Advanced "Master-Level" Incarnation of Combination 6: Released to the public at a select seminar in 1984, this variation is hated by "so-called" instructors because they simply do not have the athletic timing to pull it off. I break down the exact physics of how a defensive hand parry spring-loads your lower body for an explosive kick—and how the momentum of that kick hitting the floor automatically whips out a devastating backfist to the temple.
• The Secret of "Folding the Spine": How to use your opponent’s upper-body aggression against him to break his height, bend him in half like a piece of cardboard, and force him to feed his own face directly into your oncoming fist.
• How to Uncork the Deadly "Snake Kick": A vicious, hidden variation of the front kick designed for the street. When executed with a heavy, steel-toed shoe, this move acts like a knife slicing right through the groin area. It is incredibly nasty, highly painful, and stops fights instantly.
• The "One Thing, Know 10,000" Matrix: Borrowing from the legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi, I show you how the single, simple mechanics of Combination 6 show up everywhere in combat. You'll see how to modify it by just a few degrees to smash an attacker's shins, destroy a circular roundhouse kick mid-air, or counter a front kick.
• The "Up-And-Out" Punch Deception: A wicked trick that ruins sport-guards. I'll show you how to chamber a kick so your opponent expects it to rise to the face—and then instantly drive your weight forward and through his block before he even realizes he's been hit.
• The Grandmaster Ed Parker Principle: Why distance is your absolute best friend in a street fight, and exactly how Combination 6 and 7 keep a 250-pound bear at bay so he can never land a punch or an elbow on your body.
• The Master Key Hidden Inside: I will show you exactly how Combination 3 lives silently inside Combination 6, and how to seamlessly transition into a devastating drop-weight twist stance to deliver maximum power without sacrificing your balance.

This video is like having me right there in your living room, acting as your personal coach, stripping away the useless fluff, and giving you the raw, unedited combat secrets that were passed down to me by the old-time grandmasters like Art Singer from the late 1970s.

Look, you can keep practicing the same robotic, stiff forms that will get you creamed in a real parking lot brawl. Or, you can learn how to make your body move with an organic grace and lethal expertise that handles any attacker automatically.

This instructional media is not available in stores, and you won't find these master-level breakdowns on YouTube. It is available exclusively through this offer for martial artists who are serious about protecting themselves and mastering the true art of Shaolin Kempo.

The investment for this deep-dive training video is only $49.

To order, simply click the link below right now, fill out your shipping details, and I will personally make sure a pristine 2 DVD copy is packaged up and rushed to your address....👉 OR you can download it NOW!!!!

Don't let your self-defense strategy rely on a fairytale. Learn the real laws of combat distance, timing, and devastating power today.

Sincerely,

Grandmaster Jim Brassard

P.S. Remember what the ancient Chinese masters always warned: "Take any strength too far, and it becomes your own weakness—and it will kill you." Don't get obsessed with just one move. Add this entire bag of master-level skills to your arsenal today before this limited production run sells out. Click the link above now.

Vol. 1

IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY TEACHING YOUR STUDENTS THE “BOX STEP” IN KEMPO COMBINATION #5… STAND BY TO WATCH THEM GET THEIR TEETH, NOSE, AND JAW BRUTALLY SMASHED IN A REAL STREET FIGHT!

From: The Desk of a First-Generation Master

Dear Friend,

If you are a martial artist who believes that every single move taught to you by your instructor is 100% gospel truth… stop reading this ad right now. 

This letter is not for you. Go back to your fantasy world where street fights look like beautifully choreographed ballets.

But if you are someone who wants the cold, hard, bloody truth about what actually happens when a violent, beer-soaked Neanderthal tries to take your head off outside a bar… then what you are about to read will be the most eye-opening, and perhaps terrifying, message you have ever encountered.

Here is why.

There is a dangerous virus spreading through the American Kempo and martial arts community. It is a mutation. A mistake. A deadly illusion passed down by second- and third-generation instructors who have never had to use their hands to defend their lives in the real world.

And if you are practicing Kempo Combination #5 the way most schools teach it today, you are actively training yourself to get knocked unconscious.

Let’s talk about the “Box Step.” You know exactly what I’m talking about. You’re in a left half-moon stance. The attacker launches a punch. And instead of executing a direct, brutal, efficient counter, you are taught to take a double step—a little dancing “box step” or T-step.

It looks fancy in the dojo. It gets a lot of nods from judges at tournaments.

But in a real fight, it is financial suicide for your face.

Think about it logically. The thug in front of you is throwing a fast right hand, and he’s immediately following it up with a vicious left hook. He is taking one step to hit you. If you are trying to take two steps to his one just to set up a block, you have mathematically guaranteed your own defeat. You are increasing his speed and drastically decreasing yours.

If you try that ridiculous box step against a seasoned Western boxer or a trained Chinese boxer, you are going to swallow your own teeth before you even finish your first step.

I didn't just guess this. I did the homework. I went back and dug up the rare, grainy footage from the 1950s and 1960s of the original Grandmasters executing Combination #5. Do you know what I saw?

👉 There was absolutely no box step.

None. Zero.

If you look at the men who actually created and refined this system—the ones who taught the man who taught the man who taught you—they didn't dance. When the punch came, they used a simple, direct "Gate Step." They stepped straight back, opened the gate, cleared the line of fire, and delivered immediate destruction.

The box step is a mutation. It’s a messed-up movement that sneaked into the system underneath the first-generation masters. And it’s going to get people hurt.

Now, let’s look at the first movement of Combination #5: that unusual, open triangle block where the hands rise up like the classic crane system.

Up until now, you’ve probably noticed this is a very strange way to block. But let me give you the real insight. If you take the low block you do in standard katas or pinans, and you simply bring it up into the air with open fingers (the classic Chinese hands), you create an Open-End Triangle.

This is one of the most powerful trapping tools ever devised by the ancient masters—but only if you use it for its exact, intended purpose.

This block is an absolute masterpiece against circular blows.

• When a massive, wild haymaker comes flying toward your skull…
• When a tight, vicious hook punch is aimed at your jaw…
• When a brutal right roundhouse kick is launched at your head…

The Open-End Triangle gives you a massive window of room to pick up the strike, trap the arm, and neutralize the threat instantly. It fits perfectly.

But if someone throws a laser-straight, lightning-fast jab or cross directly down the pipe? It is incredibly tricky. 

You would need an unbelievable, almost impossible amount of superhuman skill to capture a straight punch inside that triangle.

The original masters knew this technique belonged to the Crane system. The Crane is designed for when you are caught off-guard or surprised—perhaps with your hands folded across your chest, or down by your sides. 

When you turn around and a punch is suddenly in your face, your hands naturally flash up to protect your eyes. That is the point of origin for the triangle.

Here is another massive mistake I see taught in modern dojos: instructors telling their students to put 100% of their maximum power into every single strike.

That is dead wrong. If you fight like that, you will blow your engine and get spent within seconds.

Real martial arts is like music. You have major chords and minor chords. In boxing, you don't try to knock a man out with a jab; you use the jab as a minor chord to set up the devastating right cross.

In Combination #5, after you trap the attacker's circular strike with your triangle block, you do not wind up for a massive, heavy back-fist. If you wind up, you telegraph the move, give him time to intercept you, and add a huge, useless circular beat to your own counter.

Instead, you use a minor strike to "tenderize" him.

You instantly flip your hand down—without winding up—like the lightning-fast snap of a dragon’s tail. And you pop him right on the tip of the nose.

You don't need 100% power to break a man's nose. A sharp, untelegraphed snap will immediately shatter the cartilage, cause his eyes to instantly flood with tears, and force his hands to reflexively fly up to his face in agonizing pain.

And the very second his hands go to his nose, he is going to lean backward to compensate for the pain.......And look what is left completely wide open.

The moment he stumbles back holding his bloody nose, his entire midsection and ribcage are completely exposed. Now, and only now, do you bring in the major chord: a devastating, bone-shattering side kick.

For those of you who have already studied my Inside Combination #7 course, huge bells and whistles should be ringing in your head right now.

Why? Because when you pop his nose and he stumbles backward away from you, you don't just stand there. You execute a crossover side kick to chase him down and finish the fight.

Suddenly, you can see the truth: Combination #7 is woven directly into the DNA of Combination #5. They are not separate, isolated dances. They are parts of the exact same lethal language of self-defense.

Look, don’t take my word for any of this. I don't want you to just blindly believe me the way people believe the instructors who teach the box step.

Go do the research. Go look up the footage of the old masters like Fred Villari or the early pioneers of Shaolin Kempo Karate. Watch them perform 

Combination #5. 

You will see them stand on guard, step straight back, block, snap the strike, and deliver the kick. No dancing. No box steps. Just pure, unadulterated efficiency.

If you want to truly master the inner mechanics of these techniques—if you want to know the advanced brown-belt variations of #5, or exactly how to execute that brutal arm-breaking variation from the 1950s where you come right underneath the trapped elbow—then you need to look inside my advanced training series.

If we work together personally through these videos, I can promise you we will have some incredible things to talk about. I’ll show you exactly why the box step will cost you your teeth, how to snap a back-fist with zero telegraphing, and how to transition effortlessly from #5 into the chasing crossover kick of #7.

Unless, of course, you’re planning on fighting Mike Tyson. If a prime Mike Tyson is throwing tight, explosive hooks inside your guard, this technique won't save you. In fact, I don't know many techniques that will help you beat Mike Tyson in a street fight. Let me end it with that!

But for the common thug, the bully, the haymaker-swinging street fighter? This original, unmutated sequence is pure gold.

Check out the advanced Inside Combination #5 and Inside Combination #2 videos today, do the homework, and stop training for the dojo—start training for reality.

Sincerely,

A Veteran of the First-Generation Masters

Vol. 2

The Secret “Hidden Geometry” of Kenpo That Slaughters any Haymaker, Street Hook, or Spinning Backfist instantly... Even if you are Outsized, Out-muscled, and Caught Completely Off-Guard!

Dear Fellow Martial Artist,

Let’s stop playing nice and talk about what actually happens when some psycho in a bar, a parking lot, or an alley decides he wants to tear your face right off.

He isn't going to bow. He isn't going to step into a textbook, lunging forward-punch.

He is going to throw a savage, looping haymaker, a wicked street hook, or if he’s got a little bit of training, a blinding spinning backfist.

And if your muscle memory is trained to step back, do that rigid, double-pattern "Chinese Box Step" (or what some systems call the lock-step), you are in deep, deep trouble.

Why? Because that double-stepping virus does not translate to a real, chaotic street fight. While you are giving 100% of your two-handed attention to blocking his first punch, his other hand is already on its way to shatter your jaw.

Good fighters know this. The old masters from the 1950s knew this.

Yet, I see instructors teaching this broken, watered-down garbage every single day.

They are adding a "beat" to the movement. They block... then they chamber... then they punch. In the street, that extra beat is the exact millisecond that gets you carried away in an ambulance.

But what if you didn't have to guess where his punch was landing? What if you had an "iron triangle" with a margin of error so massive that even if he throws it high, he's blocked—and if he throws it low, he's still blocked?

And what if—the exact moment his strike hits your shield—his own body mechanics force his target right into your weapon, without you ever having to chamber a punch?

That is the raw, unadulterated power of the Inside Five Combination. And it contains a hidden martial science very few practitioners alive truly understand.

Think back to The Karate Kid. Mr. Miyagi had Daniel Larusso waxing cars and painting fences. Daniel thought he was just doing chores. He didn't realize his muscles were being wired for lethal defense until Miyagi cross-referenced the movements and threw a punch.

The Five Combination is the ultimate cross-reference in Shaolin Kenpo.

If you’ve been teaching or practicing these combinations as separate, isolated movements, you are missing the entire matrix.

• The DNA of Number Three: If you change the timing and intention of the hands at the beginning of Five, you realize it is the exact same hand motion as the Master Key Number Three.
• The DNA of Number Seven: If you isolate the devastating side kick, the crossover, and the guard from the end of Five... it is a dead ringer for the Number Seven Combination, just executed on the inside rather than the outside.

When you master the Inside Five, you aren't just learning one technique. You are unlocking a universal geometry. You stop thinking about "Step A, Step B, Step C." Instead, you adjust the depth, re-time the pace, and eliminate the block entirely by turning the block into the strike.

Look at the mechanics: When an attacker swings his right shoulder forward to throw a major haymaker, his left shoulder must pull back to torque and feed that energy. He is completely opening up his own line.

By dropping directly back like a hinge on a fence—no fancy footwork, just pure leverage—you catch his strike on your massive scissor block. You don't add a beat. You don't bring your hand back to punch. You deliver a lightning-fast backfist or an immediate eye-skewer right into the socket before he can even think about his second hand.

Most traditional karate systems teach an arm break that relies on a hard, snapping motion against the joint. It requires perfect leverage and a cooperative opponent.

But inside the vintage, unfiltered version of Five Combination lies the Kung Fu Type Break.

This isn't a clean snap. This is a brutal, crushing maneuver designed to smash the artery, trap the nerves, and tear the tendons. It is entirely internal. If you execute this hard strike correctly on a straight punch or a hook, you don't just stop the attack—you instantly snap the wrist and deaden the entire arm. When you apply this kind of pressure, the fight is over before it even begins.

This isn't theory pulled out of a modern, over-commercialized martial arts school.

I recently came across a piece of absolute history—rare, vintage footage from the 1950s and 60s showing the original pioneers of Shaolin Kenpo executing these techniques the way they were meant to be used.

No box steps. No watered-down sport karate rules. Just pure, predatory efficiency.

We have taken this incredibly rare film, broken it down frame-by-frame, and combined it with an elite masterclass that goes deeper into the Inside Five Combination than any video ever produced.

Here is just a fraction of what you will discover:

• The Massive Margin of Error Shield: How to form the perfect "Open-End Triangle Block" that catches hooks, haymakers, and backfists whether they are thrown too high or too low.
• The "Hinge" Footwork Secret: Why you must abandon the L-step virus immediately and how a simple, single-hinge drop completely robs your opponent's punch of its steam.
• The Elimination of the "Beat": How to transition from a beginner’s block-and-strike to a master-level simultaneous execution that uses the opponent's own momentum to impale his face onto your fist.
• Target Selection for Real Conflict: Why striking the jaw like most sport fighters can ruin your hand, and the exact soft targets (the temple, the cheekbone, and the devastating "ear-clap") that drop attackers instantly.
• The Spinning Backfist Antidote: Why Five Combination is the single most effective, unbelievable defense against a spinning backfist, and how to introduce it to your students the moment they master the basic hook defense.

Let me be entirely honest with you: Do not teach this to a yellow, orange, or purple belt. They do not have the control, the skill, or the confidence to pull this off safely, and they will likely hurt their training partners.

This information is a gift intended for solid black belts. It is the type of deep-dive, conceptual training that should be reserved for fourth-degree masters and above—or those rare, dedicated practitioners who are actively preparing themselves for master rank.

If you are ready to stop collecting superficial techniques and start understanding the deep, interconnected web of Kenpo geometry, this video is your blueprint.

We have digitized this rare vintage footage alongside our complete, modern frame-by-frame masterclass analysis. You can stream it instantly on any device.

To claim your copy and gain immediate access to the hidden secrets of the Inside Five Combination, click the link below right now.

Don't let your muscle memory rely on outdated, sport-style movements that will fail you when the pavement is wet and the stakes are real. Learn the hidden geometry. Master the timing.

See you on the inside,

GM Jim Brassard Shaolin Kenpo Practitioner & Instructor

P.S. When you watch the vintage footage at the end of the video, pay close attention to the way the master drops his weight. You can literally slow the film down to see the exact moment the Kung Fu break is applied. It is a masterclass in itself.