Shorinji Kempo?

Question

hi, i have to do a report on Shorinji Kempo for karate, and do u know any good websites where i can find this info:

Motivation and Goals for the Founding of Shorinji Kempo

Key Attitudes Toward Training

The Five Elements of Atemi

The Three Essentials of Ken

(gi,jutsu,ryaku)

thanks! (this is all Shorinji Kempo)

Answer 1

The three main aims of Shorinji Kempo are:

Healthy Body - Improved physical fitness and health

Healthy Mind - Spiritual development

Self-Defense

Shorinji Kempo teaches a wide variety of techniques, ranging from goho (hard techniques) such as kicks and punches, juho (soft techniques) such as grappling and throwing, to seiho (correcting methods) acupressure techniques for revival of unconscious persons. These three types of techniques are further divided into kogi (offensive techniques), bogi (defensive techniques), shuho (defence methods, mainly against soft techniques), tai gamae (body position), sokui ho (foot position), umpo ho (footwork), and tai sabaki (body movement).

Techniques are seldom practiced in isolated form. Often a technique is put into a context, or pattern, also known as hokei. The hokei is typically a defense paired with an attack.

Hokei is practiced either in isolated form, or during randori (free fighting, a more literal translation being "to bring Chaos under order", which is philosophically rather different from simply fighting for its own sake).

The relationship between technique, hokei and randori is similar to that of the relationship between words, sentences and essays. A word forms the basis of the sentence, just like the technique forms the basis of hokei. The sentence forms the basis of the essay, just like hokei forms the basis of randori. In order to master the art of writing good essays, one must first have a good vocabulary (words), and how you put them together to form sentences that conveys meaning. Similarly, in order to master the art of randori, one must know how to perform techniques, and how to put them together into hokei.

Answer 2

nah...i'm not that smart~lol

Answer 3

There are a couple of sites giving information on Shorinji Kempo although one of the best has recently gone down. Here is the best of the rest:

http://www.shorinji.co.uk/kempo/shorinji...

(This is the official Shorinji Kempo site for the UK. It covers most of what you will probably need to know and will link you to sources where you can get the rest of the your information)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorinji_Ke...

(This is the 'answer-on-a-page' version. The links will give you a great access to other sources around the world.

Doshin So wrote a few books on SK as well. It might be worth getting them through a library. Personally, I would seriously consider (if you can't get the information from the sites above) contacting some of the instructors/clubs listed via email and asking them the questions. Instructors will usually enjoy providing such information.

Hope that helps