There are stories about Sokaku Takeda, but that is Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu, not hapkido, so someone else will have to share those.
I DID hear a story once that I think is about Won, Kwang-Wha — but I'm not positive.
My instructor was told this story by his instructor, Lee H. Park.
The story, as best as I can remember it, goes like this:
The Musulkwan hapkido dojang was known for its flying kicks. One day, while they were practicing some particularly difficult kicks, one of the students fell on his head and his fellow students were sure he had broken his neck and was dead.
The master was called or showed up at that time, and did something and the guy woke up and was fine.
Yea, I know ... it isn't much
That's as close to mystical as we get. Pretty much all physics and physiology for us
Ok now I
personally have what could be mistaken for a mystical power, but I think I have a rational explanation.
I have, on very many occassions, had my cell phone ringer off — not on vibrate, but off — and have reached in my pocket to answer an incoming call.
My rational explanation is this: Pavlov's Dog. There is SOMETHING going on inside cell phones when they receive an incoming call, or perhaps just the radio-wave itself, that I (and presumably others) am able to perceive at a subconcious level.
There is still a bell involved and then removed, but instead of salivation I have been conditioned to answer my phone — audible ringer, vibrate or not.
