American Chinese Kung Fu

09/14/2025

01/25/2025

Tom n tj
Wouldnt want to get in that mix

01/18/2025

Jk junior student obtained brown sash status in 37 classes. Street octagon ACKF course is a strictly related to realistic street applications course requiring 50 classes to finish with black sash status.
All ACKF black sash and above holders are qualified to teach the Octagon course. Jk earned
Black sash (sifu status) on April 29 2025. Officially recorded date of rank will be may 6th 2025. Congrats to an accomplishment
Well deserved in the upper academic level of performance.

01/09/2023

ACKF proudly awards HM Blackbelt (sifu) on Jan 8 2023. Authority of issuance GM Rick Rockburn.

12/12/2022

My tall sensei

12/12/2022

Back on salvadore. Blood castle

06/29/2022

“Excited delirium is not recognized by the World Health
Organization, the American Psychiatric Association,
the American Medical Association, and not listed as a
medical condition in the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders or International
Classification of Diseases.
W https://en.m.wikipedia.org » wiki
Excited delirium - Wikipedia”
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Sooooooo!

Excited delirium has been used in many cases involving law enforcement and other civil situations. But it not being accepted by the above mentioned i.e. APA, then what are the legal issues in a court of law? Simply stated ED is a state of mind, (my opinion)And a simple response is: that is the legal issue-your state of mind in a self defense situation that might have involved “deadly force”. Look into it. Knowledge might inhibit hesitation
Gm rockburn

Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828–1901) was a Canadian-born New England oil painter of the American Barbizon school. He and his wife Christiana were active in the African-American abolitionist community in Boston. Bannister won first prize for his art at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition a...

06/28/2022

Rote(memory)Training

You learn kicks,punches, takedowns etc. what is needed for your next test so you can pass. Relaxed conditions for the most part. No threat of physical harm. The only fear that is created is in your own mind when you dont remember the technique

Similar to passing firearm training on the range. Again no physical threat of harm.

The term “Zen Combat” combines a mental state along with the physical state. So when one spars against another (kumite) there is a physical threat of harm. Or if someone is shooting at you, obviously, thats a threat.

So my point is -your state of mind in a real threatening situation is not by the rote principle of training.

Gm rockburn