Good HKD schhol & Organisation

[AussieNath]

G'Day everyone,

I'm looking at cross training into HKD. I currently hold Dan in traditional TKD and am starting to look for a good school in Sydney, Australia that teaches HKD. I'm after something that is traditional and undiluted. Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.....

[American HKD]

G'Day everyone,

I'm looking at cross training into HKD. I currently hold Dan in traditional TKD and am starting to look for a good school in Sydney, Australia that teaches HKD. I'm after something that is traditional and undiluted. Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.....

Find a good Sin Moo Hapkido school or a KHF school, thier generally the most tradional schools.

[angry]

G'Day everyone,

I'm looking at cross training into HKD. I currently hold Dan in traditional TKD and am starting to look for a good school in Sydney, Australia that teaches HKD. I'm after something that is traditional and undiluted. Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.....
Have a look at some of these as they have schools in the Sydney area.

http://www.australianhapkido.com Mathew Sung Su Kim's group

http://www.hapkido.com.au/index.php Geoff Booth's group

http://www.physics.mq.edu.au/~dalew/index_hapkido.html Sung Soo Lee's group

These are three of the larger hapkido organisation I have come into contact with, which have schools in Sydney. I don't know the quality of the classes or standards of instructors besides hearsay.

Enjoy

[American HKD]

Have a look at some of these as they have schools in the Sydney area.

http://www.australianhapkido.com Mathew Sung Su Kim's group

http://www.hapkido.com.au/index.php Geoff Booth's group

http://www.physics.mq.edu.au/~dalew/index_hapkido.html Sung Soo Lee's group

These are three of the larger hapkido organisation I have come into contact with, which have schools in Sydney. I don't know the quality of the classes or standards of instructors besides hearsay.

Enjoy

I would say either Geoff Booths group or Sung Soo Lee,

Master Booth is a Sin Moo Master like myself and so is Master Lee is a KHF Senior Master, both teach real HKD

Go see which school you like better checkem out.

[Downstroke]

Although I'm the other side of the world, I would definately recommend Sung Soo Lee. He is president of the association I am a member of (International Jidokwan TKD & Moo Hak Kwan HKD) & a 9th Dan in both arts.

I have trained with him on two occasions when he has come to the UK to conduct seminars, and had the honour of taking my first dan grading by him on one such occasion. All I can say is he is a gentleman & a scholar. His techniques are exceptional, and is willing to help anyone willing to learn, regardless of their grade.

My instructor stayed with him last October and came back newly invigorated after a weeks solid training, and being introduced to many of Master Lee's associated instructors. He will be over here again in May for some more seminars, so we are all looking forward to that. In a world of self promoted grandmasters and bogus martial artists, Grandmster Lee is the real deal.

[Coges]

I have had experience with a Geoff Booth affiliated school in Melbourne and if you are after undiluted HKD then this may not be the direction to take. There is nothing wrong with their HKD but it seems they have cross polinated it with boxing. They teach the four main boxing punches before you move on to other strikes. I wasn't able to train for too long at this location so I cannot comment on the higher belt levels but at a short term glance, the HKD didn't seem very traditional.

[AussieNath]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'm organising myself to get to some of these classes and take a closer look.

[American HKD]

I have had experience with a Geoff Booth affiliated school in Melbourne and if you are after undiluted HKD then this may not be the direction to take. There is nothing wrong with their HKD but it seems they have cross polinated it with boxing. They teach the four main boxing punches before you move on to other strikes. I wasn't able to train for too long at this location so I cannot comment on the higher belt levels but at a short term glance, the HKD didn't seem very traditional.

Booth has a good rep., but I did'nt know he made his HKD into an electic type system or as you say how much so?

I perfer the Trad. so the KHF school might be better in that sense

[Coges]

Booth has a good rep., but I did'nt know he made his HKD into an electic type system or as you say how much so?

I perfer the Trad. so the KHF school might be better in that sense

Yeah, I haven't studied with him directly, so he may be different in Sydney, but the school I was at in Melbourne was definately not traditional. Still good fun as they have a great way of testing techniques which gets more intense by the belt level. What they do is near the end of the class everyone gets in a circle with one person in the middle. One by one (sometimes two at a time at higher belt levels), they attack the person in the middle (grabs if from behind or infront, strikes only if infront or if behind a kihap is needed first). The person in the middle then uses whatever technique they want to, to escape ,counter, etc. Sometimes turns into full on sparring when witnessed at the higher belt levels.

[American HKD]

Yeah, I haven't studied with him directly, so he may be different in Sydney, but the school I was at in Melbourne was definately not traditional. Still good fun as they have a great way of testing techniques which gets more intense by the belt level. What they do is near the end of the class everyone gets in a circle with one person in the middle. One by one (sometimes two at a time at higher belt levels), they attack the person in the middle (grabs if from behind or infront, strikes only if infront or if behind a kihap is needed first). The person in the middle then uses whatever technique they want to, to escape ,counter, etc. Sometimes turns into full on sparring when witnessed at the higher belt levels.

Greetings

That sounds like fun.

One of my old Istrs. from Korea use to have us spar 1 on 2,3 then we'd do 10 on 10, or half the class v.s the other half.

It was really fun. :love:

[Coges]

Greetings

One of my old Istrs. from Korea use to have us spar 1 on 2,3 then we'd do 10 on 10, or half the class v.s the other half.

It was really fun. :love:

Yeah, I miss that type of training. I am trying to get my current school to adopt a similar approach.