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whats the difference between combat hapkido and normal hapkido? the only thing i can find near me right now is something called hankido, i think its from the same familly from hapkido or something, sorry for the ignorance XD

honestly im not looking for something i can learn fast, im looking for something practical. for example im in kung fu and i practise animal forms and bamboo sticks fights, how is that going to help me in a real fight? not too practical in my opinion, unless i become a samurai with a bamboo stick or something. i dont care about taking the time to learn, i just dont want to waste my time and money in something im never going to use. if u know about a good style, and if ur kind enaugh, i would apreciate if u could help me find a dojo/gym of that style in santiago of chile (south america)

what do u guys think about hankido (hapkido derivation), i heard its quite self defence based, but i heard some comments that its not that really practicall or useful in the street for example if someone punches u, u wont be fast enaugh to grab his fist or something, just an example

between kickboxing and shaolin kung fu what would u rather learn? asking for opinions, not wich one is the best maybe some explination about the reason would be good =)

whats the most practical and faster to learn MA?, not asking the best one, i jsut dont want to spend 2 years and become "good", i want to learn some things and become decent at self defence kung fu so far is all fancy kicks and needs time to be good at so im looking for soemthing else =) any advice?

thats where i got a conflict, because with hankido i get 3 classes a week of 1 and 1/2 hour each class, and its far from my house, but kung fu is in a very big gym, i can go 6 days a week if i want to the classes and its 1 1/2 hour too, its really close to my house so i can go walking so i dont know if i should sacrifice all the comfort for hankido instead of going to kung fu lol

ya thx that makes hankido preety much clear, im still wondering how effective kung fu shaolin is tough

thx for the answer but that wasnt my question lol, what i asked is how is kung fu shaolin and what is hankido, + if being 4 thuan on kung fu is good or bad for a teacher sorry for the trubles

thx for all the answers fellaz but there is some things u didnt mention. what does 4 thuan mean and wtf is hankido lol i read its confused with dancing so im like wtf is that effective?

sorry to bother u guys so much but i went to aikido and i hated it, i just want to know what "shaoling kung fu" is and if its any good the teacher on kung fu is a 4th thuan (thats what it says no idea what it means) and he does the (some weird animal i dont remember), the snake and the tiger (dunno what it means either) i think this is my last question thx for answering all the times tough

well ive decided and im between shaolin kung fu aikido , hankido(not hapkido) and Aikido Aikikai , i read everywhere that aikido is like... peacefull and spiritual and wont help me much on the street (more like throwing the guy on the floor and not "owning" him by breaking every bone in his body) i went to a shaolin kung fu class but it wasnt in a gym, it was on the open field so i decided not to do it i still dont knwo what hankido is but i would really like to do hapkido even if i cant, and they say hankido is kinda like hapkido what u think?? aikido or hankido?

since no one answered, ill change the question. what is hankido and kung fu shaolin, and the pro and con of each would be nice

first of all im glad to join this site wich is very good to get interesting information, just today i got an incentive to join a MA, wich i was waiting for because we had some money problems and really couldnt afford it guess now i can =D well leaving my background behind, i got the problem that near my house there are a lot of schools of MA some of the same kind, so i dont know wich one to choose. i can choose between Hankido (no idea what hankido is, would be nice if u could tell me). aikido (not so sure about aikido i would like to be more offensive, not exactly the pacific tipe, i think one of the aikido is called Aikido Aikikai if thats any help), Karate Do Goju Ryu (what kind of karate is this???, how is karate compared to the other MA and specifically hapkido wich im interested on), Karate Do Gojudo (no idea what this is),kung fu (is kung fu any good? the one near me is Shaolin Kung Fu but it sounds kind of pacific...) and lastly hapkido, wich is really geting my attention, because it mixes all the other MA and its kinda offensive compared to aikido. well i know thats a lot of description and questions made, but i really could use some guidance and would really apreciate any help. sorry if i had some grammar errors, im from chile south america and english isnt ma main lenguage u can see how desesperate i am for help that i came to a foreign site lol thx in advance