Additionally, you also have the problems that occur when one student mimics another. If you ask most martial arts instructors they will tell you that every so often they’ll look up at their students and they’re all doing a technique in a way that they (the instructor) never taught. The instructor will stop the whole class and ask where they all learned to do that particular technique that particular way and they will all swear the instructor taught them. What happens is one student has an incorrect observation or interpretation of something he/she saw the instructor do and now other students are now mimicking that student.

Alternatively, SubLevel Kenpo offers a different approach to the teaching process of the Martial Sciences called Body Index Training, or BIT Training. This type of training utilizes very specific, bio-mechanically sound, physical movements called Indexes. For example, when a student is first being taught an inward block they are taught to stand in a proper right neutral bow (that they have already been taught using BIT Training) facing 12:00. The student is then taught to execute a series of Progressive Index Movements, which are an Outward Downward Index, followed by a Lateral Wrist Index, followed by a Lateral Upward Index, which then puts them in position to thrust their forearm, at a 45-degree angle, as a Geometrical Path towards 10:30.

Using the very specific movements of BIT Training forces a student to learn the exact method and manner of execution of the SubLevel Kenpo curriculum. This type of training leaves little, if any, room for misunderstandings or incorrect interpretations of the curriculum. BIT Training also produces a high level of consistency in the material that spans the entire student body. One of the first things you may notice of the students within a school that utilizes BIT Training is that from beginner to the most advanced students they all have the exact same basic execution of basic material. However, as we all know, there is no such thing as material that is only “basic” – only a basic understanding. So, as students progress in their SubLevel Kenpo training, their understanding, and therefore their execution progresses as well. They learn more sophisticated indexes that increase the proficiency of their execution.

Friday night we had our first seminar followed by another Saturday afternoon and several small classes with Vivion and his students.

The positive response from attendees was very much appreciated and I’m hoping everyone enjoyed themselves as much as I did. I’m already looking forward to our next event that’s being planned now for some time next year.

When the body achieves correct biomechanical structure organ systems function more properly, blood (and chi) flows more smoothly, the nervous system functions optimally, and emotional balance can be restored. Proper biomechanics are the cornerstone of yoga, tai chi/chi gong, chiropractics and osteopathy.

Dynamic: pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active or forceful; energetic (www.dictinary.com)
Isometric Exercise: exercise or a program of exercises to strengthen specific muscles or shape the figure by pitting one muscle or part of the body against another or against an immovable object in a strong but motionless action, as by pressing the fist of one hand against the palm of the other or against a desk. (www.dictinary.com)

A seeming contradiction in terms, Dynamic Isometrics is the implementation of tension and/or resistance by placing the hands on specific parts of the body during a physical movement to achieve positive biomechanical structure.

The positive structure generated by Dynamic Isometrics has its place within the martial science system of SubLevel Kenpo, however when taken out as a stand-alone component the healing aspects are revealed. In a Dynamic Isometric Form (or Kata) opposing resistance is placed on every movement and the focus and objective is switched from martial application to promoting regeneration.