Don jun Breathing

[Jointlock]

Just wondering what some of your don jun breathing exercises were like at your schools or if you practice them? I know I've seen a lot of different types from different schools.

Dan jun Ho hup bup Il sool: Stand with feet double shoulder width apart hands ki'd open against your hips. Take a strong deep breath into your chest. Drop down about 6 inches bending your knees and tightening every muscle in your body from your toes to your neck. Push your hands out and up like rolling a boulder up a mountain until your arms are straight and about forehead high. Next push all of the air from your chest down into your stomach and the same time tilting your hands downward. Finally forcefully breath out and bring your hands back to your hips on the same track once again standing straight up.

I have to admit it's hard to describe how to do this or any technique without any pictures or being able to actually show anyone.

[Thomas]

We learned a few of these... but it's pretty hard to write it up to post it.

(1) from a relaxed standing position,inhale deeply and slowly as you bring your hands up to your armpits (elbows out). As you finish inhaling, exhale quickly and "kihap" as you extend your arms straight out to the side and settle into a horse stance. Slowly inhale and turn your arms forward, bring your stance up and let the backs of your hands face your face. Exhale quuickly with a "kihap"as you extend them back out straight and back into a horse stance. Inhale slowly and bring your arms over head, cross them above your head ans you bring your feet back towards a standing position... ehale and let your arms come back down easily (original position).

There are more, but that is the first one we learn.

[John_IHF]

We do somthing like that though we get on the ground on all fours Legs mor so spread apart and hands about shoulder with apart and Butt in the air. From that posisition we rock forward in a circular motion dipping down then back up and as we are going up we do an offensive ki hap then we go backwards and do a defense ki hap and repeat that. I'll try and a motion caption of that with my cam..

[SaJooNim]

Hey John... I'm curious what the difference is between an offensive kihap and a defensive kihap?

TIA,

Mike Burnett, Sa Joo
Shin Koo Hapkido
Yoo-Sok-Kwan
Lincoln, NE

[John_IHF]

well the difference between a defensive kihap and an Offensive Kihap would be that the offensive kihap is an explosion of center yell toward the target/enemy that messes with the electical system in the person's body. Like if you yell to a certain part of someone's body (and their eyes are closed) from your center they can feel where the kihap came from and where it hit, it goes deep into their body. The Defensive Kihap is to build hydrostatic pressure to prepare your body for an attack, keep your internal organs from shifting as much as they would normaly, when you redirect an attack and turn the defense into offense you do a defense kihap which is not as loud as a offensive kihap because you are already applying a technique that is messing with the Electrical system but sure you can do an offensive kihap to cause more of a disturbance.

[TigerAn1]

Hello. I have a question concerning the breathing excercise's. I've been in Hapkido for only 4 weeks now, but we have yet to learn the breathing excercises. I would have thought that that would be almost the first thing learned, but what do I know. That's why I'm asking here. We do perform one simple breathing excercise, but it is not as described here. That excercise is also taught to the TKD classes.

I'd appreciate your input- thanks in advance!

[kcs]

Master Chang is big on Ton Jon breathing. However, when we do it, we aim to tighten the stomach, anus and hands only - everything else is supposed to be completely relaxed. You can do this is a variety of postures, but that's always the basic idea.

[TigerAn1]

Been getting better since my 4 week's in post. We tense primarily the stomach area whilst breathing in and going into a deep horse stance. We hold that position through all 4 phases of the breathing excercise which is down, side, up, and center positions. At the end we go to ready stance and yell Hap-Ki as we we bring our hands down to our sides, feet shoulder width.