Does anyone else here practice Hapkido?

[aigaios]

I'm new here, and I was wondering if anybody else around here practices Hapkido, and if they do, what variation. (Sin Moo, IHF, etc.)

Yeah, so let me know.

-M

P.S. I'm a 1st Dan in IHF Hapkido Under Master Jino Kang and Grandmaster Myung Sung Kang.

[niel0092]

There are a few hapkido people around here. Tufrthanu studied it for a while and I loved it when I tried it a few years back.

[bushido_man96]

I have studied in the ICHF curriculum for a while. Haven't done much lately, but I have some friends and classmates that I can practice with.

If you want to bounce some ideas around, shoot. I'll do my best. However, you do outrank me.

[aigaios]

Cool. Has anyone here ever been to Korea to train? I'm curious about how different it is to train there in TKD and HKD.

[hapkido princess]

hi, I practice Hapkido, but i've been doing so for a year. So I don't think I'll be much help.

Amy

[Scott James]

I don't do HKD actively, but I do pikc things up from people I know.

I have sat in on classes In Korea. I think most people would be dissapointed, I really didn't see a big difference.

[aigaios]

Hmm, that's interesting.

I've seen demo vids of the Hapkido guys from the IHF HQ in Korea, and they're awesome, but I suppose that's what they train for, so it would make sense that they are.

[Scott James]

Don't get me wrong. The definately boosted the "performance" level because I was there. But really, the class was just like any other class I have ever sat in on.

If anything, drills were a lilttle more repetative than they would be in the US.

[classiccopy]

I am currently taking Hapkido. Been at it a year and a half and I am currently a red belt or third gup. I don't know how your ranking system goes but there it starts at 9, yellow, and goes down to 1 and then when you hit black it starts going up. New to me. I was taking american kenpo karate for three years prior and they don't use gups, etc. I have taken karate, tae kwon do at various places long ago. Just got back into the arts about 5 years ago. At first I was unsure about Hapkido but I am really starting to enjoy it. The school I am at was affiliated with ICH or combat hapkido but they have since switched to something else but same curriculum. From what I have learned, I keep in mind that Hapkido is only so useful in actual application or a piece of the puzzle so to speak but I also learned that kenpo was a piece of the puzzle. In my view a larger piece but none the less lacking components. Just my opinion from what I have seen. I have gone through the ranks fairly quickly and will probably have a black in about a year and I feel a good mastery of the basics. I look forward to getting a black so I can work with more advanced students, other black belts. That will be fun.

[bpoch]

I’m new here too, although I’ve been lurking for about 6 months or so.

I’ve been taking Hapkido for 9 months and just past my test for green belt about 2 weeks ago. In my class that is the 4th belt and the ranking goes. . white, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown, brown sr, red, red sr., black. I study under USKMAF which is headed by Master JR West who is an 8th degree and has study Hapkido for over 40 years. My instructor is a 5th degree who has been practicing for over 18 years.

This is my 1st martial art and I’m really enjoy it, wish I didn’t wait until I was 32 to start.

Glad to see more people on this site interested in Hapkido, it doesn’t seem to be discussed that often.