The Black
Belt Forms
These Forms comprise the forms at the
black belt level for Shaolin Kempo
They are relatively new forms, as the curriculum only
included up to Honsuki in the earliest versions, and Sho
Ton Kwok didn't appear until about 1974-74. The vast
majority of these forms entered the curriculum around 1981.
None can be found in traditional Chinese martial arts, and
most are presumed creations of Fred Villari or one of his
senior students at the time. Nick Cerio did a version of
Honsuki, and Fred Villari learned it from Frank Cerio. The
version done in Shaolin Kempo is reminiscent but not
extremely close to the form Honsuki in the Goshinjutsu
Chinese Kempo of Bill Chun Jr. There is also the Two Man
Kempo Fist Set, which was appropriated essentially verbatim
from Ed Parker's Chinese Kenpo, and can be found in his
book Secrets of
Chinese Karate.
