Has anyone ever thought about using American Kenpo Concepts in Splashing Hands ??

Wild,

I dont know much about American Kenpo, other than the attribution to Ed Parker. Perhaps you can evaluate? Thanks. Do you train in this system?

Yes. I have taken Kenpo, BaGwaZhang .Kenpo has several concepts from Erect posture,Good Balance,Relax,Speed,Accuracy,Angles,Body Alignment,Back up mass,Economy of motion,Timing,Telegraphing,Coordination,Focus,,Power,Torque,Body momentum,Gravitational marriage,Penetration,Transition,Distance and Cover.I

Kempo in the US is greatly influence by Splashing hands. Just read Ed Parkers Bio on Wikipidia. I you had seen Parker in his early days he moved like a hard style Karate person. Later he moved much more like a splashing hands person might. Though Kempo has many other principles it follows.

Parker's Training

Parker's father enrolled him in Judo classes at the age of twelve. Parker received his Shodan in Judo in 1949 at the age of eighteen.[2] As a young man, Edmund Parker, Sr. came to study at Brigham Young University from his native Hawaii and began to teach the martial arts. By the time he achieved the rank of brown belt, he was already interpreting ideas he had learned from his Chinese-Hawaiian teacher, William Kwai Sun Chow.

It was during this period that Parker was significantly influenced by the Japanese and Okinawan interpretations prevalent in Hawaii. Parker's Book Kenpo Karate, published in 1961, shows the many hard linear movements, albeit with modifications, that set his interpretations apart. While most karate instructors were executing one- or two-move techniques, Parker was using linear rapid fire multiple strikes as well as jujutsu-influenced grabs and holds.

All of the influences up to that time were reflected in Parker's rigid, linear method of "Kenpo Karate," as it was called. Between writing and publishing, however, he began to be influenced by the Chinese arts, and included this information in his system. He settled in Southern California after leaving the Coast Guard and finishing his education at B.Y.U. Here he found himself surrounded by other martial artists from a wide variety of systems, many of whom were willing to discuss and share their arts with him. Parker made contact with people like Ark Wong, Haumea Leiti, James (Jimmy) W. Woo (a.k.a. Chin Siu Dek), and Lau Bun. These martial artists were known for their skills in arts such as Splashing-Hands, San Soo, Tai Chi, and Hung Gar, and this influence remains visible in both historical material (such as forms that Parker taught for a period within his system) and current principles.

Exposed to new Chinese training concepts and history, he modified his teachings as reflected in his second book, Secrets of Chinese Karate published in 1963, just two years after "Kenpo Karate." Parker drew comparisons in this and other books between karate (a better known art in the United States at that time) and the Chinese methods he adopted and taught.