Questions For Hapkido

[Korpy]

Ok I just started Hapkido, and need to know some answers.

How do you tie a Hapkido belt?

And I'm having trouble with my reverse roundhouse. What is the proper placement and execution of it?

Thank you. :)

[blessed_samurai]

Explaining how to tie a belt is really hard unless you have someone showing you visually. I'm sure one of the instructors will show you or have one of the students.

A reverse roundhouse? Is that a hook kick?

[Alexander]

I take it you mean a spinning (hook)/reverse turning kick. Oh yeah - a thing to bear in mind is that it seems most schools call kicks totally different thing so t may help to give a description of the technique you want info about. :D

To do it - this is not a good way for sparring but as an exercise it will help you get better at the motion - imagine you are standing in a combat stance (fighting stance/whatever) on a triangle. Your lead foot (lets assume its the left for simplicity) is on the top corner and your rear foot (the right) is on the right bottom corner of the triangle.

1) To execute the kick first you need to twist your body - quite violently - to face your back to the opponent and bring your head round over your right shoulder to see where you're kicking. So spot your target. This is really important to get used to as in sparring you need to see if your opponent has moved.

2) At the same time your right foot sweeps across to the other corner of the triangle (your left foot only pivots - it does not change position).

3) Having identified your target your right leg swings around in an massive, circular arc towards the part of the opponent you wist to pulverise and returns to its original position at the bottom right-hand corner of the triangle.

4) Once you've got this basic motion practise it all fluidly and try to 'place' your leg down, rather than dumping it.

Hope that helps,
Alexander

[Korpy]

Well it might be better if I say where it is.

It is the 3rd kick in the first kicking combination for white belt.

[Alexander]

Right... again where I train I'm not sure we actually have set kicking combinations!:D

Hapkido is probably one of the most diverse arts I've ever studied and each school tends to differ massively from the next.

[dngrruss]

When I was a student at my school, my instructor referred to roundhouse kicks as "turning" kicks, and hook kicks as "reverse turning" kicks. When I bought the school from him, I changed a lot of the terminology to English from his struggling Korenglish. I, and some of the older students and instructors, still slip and use the old terms sometimes.

Korby- requirements and names can easily change from school to school- even when they are both teaching the same style.

[mateo]

"How to tie a belt" courtesy of an Australian hapkido group

http://hapkido.netro.com.au/Main_files/page0013.htm

[Thomas]

nice one, Mateo! That's how I tie mine!

[Korpy]

It didn't help, I still can't tie it. It's hard to understand.

Can someone write how?

[iron_ox]

Hello all,

Korpy, this is why you are paying an INSTRUCTOR - have him teach you - that's what he's there for...or at least get a fellow student with a bit more experience to help - it is not something that can be written down...at least in a very understandable way...