hapkido.. would you say it is "brutal"??

[ramonnavarro123]

Hi and be blessed BLACCBILLYJACC

It is correct that in its principles HapKiDo is not a sport thought this I did not mean that one can not do tournamment fight. Yes one can even thought just depends on the tournamment rules. The thing is that we do combat or sparrying between us but try to the most our control applying techniques since it is very easy to get injurad and just for the jeck of it and for the fun of a fight it is not really worth it to get hurt or hurt a fellow companiard !

It is up to the person and mainlly the Teacher. One time there were 2 diferent persons. one that as the other loved fighting but he respected the opponent but the other did not and the Teacher said: If one does not respect his opponent one day that disrispectfull person will get beaten and I do not like fame and more if it is the fame of a bully, if I get a student that does this I will not want him here any more.

Well you can gues what hapened: Yes that disrispectfull person was asked to leave the school and the Teacher said that if he found out of any one ever be training with that guy he would get kicked out of the school too and some one did not think that the Teacher was being serious and you know here what hapened too.

To say more is to speak of things that are unnesesary.

Be well BLACCBILLYJACC and take care.

HAP

[BLACCBILLYJACC]

Greetings Ramon 123, How are you?

You seem to have some valid points as well as a well spring of knowledge.

Stay Blessed,

BBJ

[Shaolin Bushido]

It's supposed to be a combination of Aikido and Tae Kwon Do...so I'm not sure if I'd call it brutal, but it's definitely much more aggressive then Aikido.

No, it's not. I mean, that's a GROSS simplification. It actually depends on who you believe; Korean or Japanese genesis.

[yamesu]

In theory, no MA is really built for sport.

Sure, in Kyokushin we train for a certain degree of sport fighting, but we also have a LOT of SD techs in the curriculum, like eye-gouges, groin attacks, and takedowns, none of which are allowed in tournament situations.

I think Hapkido is a wicked art. Fast, and stunning in its form. Its too bad people group it with sport TKD.

[SBN Doug]

I don't think anyone was saying Kyokushin is geared for sport. Most of us know the opposite.

One comment was made about TKD being more for sport, but I'm sure they were only generalizing.

[yamesu]

Oh, I wasnt implying that someone else was having a go at Kyokushin.

I wanted to make a point about any given style, and instead of using an art where someone else may have taken offence at my comments, I simply used my own art. (Not my own art, but the art I train in.)

When others said that Hapkido contains a multitude of moves not suitable for tourament situations, I just wanted to add that, IMO, almost all styles of martial arts have multitudes of deadly techniques not suitable for tournament situations.

Cheers.

[BLACCBILLYJACC]

Oh, I wasnt implying that someone else was having a go at Kyokushin.

I wanted to make a point about any given style, and instead of using an art where someone else may have taken offence at my comments, I simply used my own art. (Not my own art, but the art I train in.)

When others said that Hapkido contains a multitude of moves not suitable for tourament situations, I just wanted to add that, IMO, almost all styles of martial arts have multitudes of deadly techniques not suitable for tournament situations.

Cheers.

You are so right. When I first started training in the MA's 22 years ago,

I trained in Ninjuitsu, & we had some devastating techniques and I run into guys from a TKD, school nearby as well as guys from the YMCA who trained in Shotokan and everyone talked about their system & how they were going to do this that & the other. When I showed up at my very first tourney I was so scared because there was so many different schools & systems that I just knew that I was gonna be in trouble.

But when the sparring started...It all looked the same darn near.

Everyone not a red or black belt wore bulky head gear & foot & shin pads & gloves. (LOL!!) There were a few different variations of kicks but not that much different, my family thought is was all kick boxing, they expected to see me use my deadly Ninja techniques,& etc;

BTW one of my class mates whisperd to me upoun our arrival that there were some guys that trained in this DEADLY, DANGEROUS art called HAPKIDO!!! (This was 1983, I was 15) & that they like kick alot like TKD but they also like to sweep the legs & send you flying 4 ft. in the air, they like to throw & choke like Judo guys, & they liked to bend your wrist & rip your arms of of their sockets . Well I saw none of that because of the rules & it was point sparring all of us kids looked the same no matter how DEADLY our styles were.

[Shaolin Bushido]

I think Hapkido is a wicked art. Fast, and stunning in its form. Its too bad people group it with sport TKD.

Yeah really. Very few hapkidoists claim that kinship unless they really just learned some hosinsool(self defense techniques) and CALL it hapkido.

[Goju_boi]

so if hapkido is so brutal,do most dojangs spar in it?

[BLACCBILLYJACC]

so if hapkido is so brutal,do most dojangs spar in it?

I haven't been to every school in the world, but as far as I know most do.

Just like anything else just tap when a joint is twisted beyond it's limits.

Know how to fall when swept off of your feet & of course wear a cup, & mouth piece.