What are the scoring conventions? Or are there any?
Aside from the leg strikes, it's kendo with a bit of Korean flair. Thanson02, the Dari; are you wearing a reinforced kapsang? It looks like the...
Congrats!! That's awesome!
That's fantastic! Congrats!
That's about what I'm after, though six hundred is more than I was looking to spend.
There is aiki-ken (sword) and aiki-jo (medium length staff). This may vary depending upon which Aikido organization you're talking about.
No kata; just rolling, falling, and light groundwork.
I have a big stack of puzzle mats, but they're more for gym and weight bench use (I got these at Dicks as well). I hope to be in my own space...
The last set of exercise mats that I got from Dicks were very inadequate for rolling and falling, though they were not the same ones you posted....
I'm preparing to teach in a location that does not have mats. I'm looking to get a folding judo mat for rolling & falling. Is anyone here familiar...
After further research, this: AncientKorean code of conduct associated with the Hwarang Sagun Ee Chung 사군이충/...
Chodan/ildan: Congratulations! You've just earned a degree that says you've learned the basics. Hardly a proclamation of maturity and mastery....
Basics wins fights. Basics makes champions. Kudos to you for sticking to your guns and coming up with a creative way to teach the lesson!
I suspect that very few people train for only one element. Though it may be a single element that drew them to the class, it is likely multiple...
I totally missed this post! At about the 028 mark, where he slows down and shows the rotation/crouch prior to the kick, is how I learned this kick.
Small independents are no guarantee of quality either. The thing people don't understand with large organizations is that their main purpose is...
That sounds like my experience as well. But without the element of international/Olympic level competition, the need for a large, centralized...
Hapkido was first used by Dojunim Choi, though it was supposedly suggested by his partner, Seo Bok Seob. The last evolutionary name prior to...
Probably for the best. Not like TKD, but there is definitely a lot of cross pollination from HKD to TKD. Probably not so much the other way...
Thanks! I was unsure of the ratio. I had also heard that there was some amount of animosity between Hwang Kee and General Choi.
That is correct. MDK split, with half of the kwan going with Hwang Kee (MDK TSD) and half going with the Kukkiwon. Hapkido never went in, and I...
No worries, though that was really just an aside. The meat of my post was, well, pretty much everything else.
Good idea, though in this case, the OP question has been answered, and then some! :D
I can show you that, and the wrist. These are from the Kukkiwon textbook:
With all due respect, while I normally find your posts very interesting and insightful (even if I disagree with you), but the position you're...
And probably isn't a lethal attack that would necessitate a tracheotomy.
I'm well aware of that. This is the part that I was talking about; there was a fairly prominent effort at the outset to tie taekwondo to...
To bring this conversation back onto point (as much as it can be, given that the OP's question regarding the name of the technique has been...
The most vehement part of the hapkido origin stories are the protestations of DRAJ exponents about Choi's exposure to DRAJ. Unlike TKD, HKD's...
Here is Koryo Pumse. After he does the two lines to the side, he performs this one twice when going "north." It's a head on view. [media]
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