What is your favorite thing about your art? is it sparring? Self defense? Weapons? I like all three of the one's I've listed. If you like other things, type it in your reply!
I voted for sparring, because it is so much fun, but I'd also mention teaching.
I get a lot of joy out of finding ways to help someone "get" a concept or technique they had been struggling with.
Weapons! I love learning and doing weapons drills especially knife work. That's my very favorite. I'm also partial to a lot of the empty hand stuff we do, I enjoy that a lot.
I love weapons (nunchuckas especially), sparring is a GREAT workout - I just need to "unfocus" more and go with the flow of the fight, the self defense (one steps/ hapkidos) are very beneficial as they lay the ground work for more spontanious responses to an attack.
I am gimped up. So I am going to say my favorite part of class is working forms. I dig the other stuff, however I found that dumping as much energy into forms is an awesome workout.
For me, it's forms #1, then self defense. I'm a technique geek, and I love practicing a form till I get it right with good technique. If I don't think a tech looks or feels right, I'll keep doing it till it does. And the self defense is fun, too. Specially in Jujitsu (no forms there but lots of SD).
I am really hard pressed to pick just one,really..there's *so* much that I love to do in Hapkido. I just don't know.:idunno:
I know that I'll go through cycles of "current favorites",though..which I think is normal *quick glance around*..I'll get caught up in belt technique for a while..then I'll move on to really tearing apart all the wristlocks..move on to throwing. I love it all,ya know?:uhyeah:
I used to be afraid of sparring, now I really like it, I'm really bad at it, but I love getting out there and mixing it up. I like weapons because they are not something we do often.
What is your favorite thing about your art? is it sparring? Self defense? Weapons? I like all three of the one's I've listed. If you like other things, type it in your reply!
I have to agree. I love the solitude of working on forms. The time it takes to get that one little move that pulls it all together. When I took karate as a kid the instructor told us that each kata needed to be done 500 times before testing. I do not get that many times but I try to keep working on it.