Actually I think the similarity probaby lies with the fact that BJJ and HKD are actually distant cousins, both arts having their roots ultimately...
But do you ever actually train them standing? Sounds similar to what I've heard Hapkido people say, that many of our standing techniques can be...
Maybe you should answer the question yourself, seeing as you just started a thread in the Hapkido forum titled "Brazilian Jujitsu."
Can this thread be deleted so I don't accidentally watch that video ever again?
Is it just me or did she just name about every major muscle in the human body other than the tongue and sphincter? (And I really don't want to...
Pretty much everyone at my school wears a t-shirt under their gi. Personally, I do it out of courtesy to my classmates. Given that judogis have...
My instructor does not really teach much breakfalling either. We do forward rolls as part of our warm-up and he reminds people to slap the mat...
This is, of course, true. Although Hapkido is certainly not the only art that suffers from this kind of nonsense. The best thing for you to do...
I think the main reason you see HKD with flashy kicks nowadays is because of the number of TKD schools that teach HKD on the side. You get a lot...
Not surprisingly, another MMA-related thread has devolved into idiocy. As to the original poster's question, the reason you don't see...
Most HKD schools should teach a full range of striking skills. (The good ones will also spar.) A lot of TKD schools integrate HKD into their...
I did a Google local search and only came up with one Hapkido school in Las Vegas. http://lvhapkido.com/ Looks like it's actually Combat...
How often are you able to land small joint locks on him?
The simple fact is that in arts like BJJ and Judo, it's much easier to go "all out" in your training. (I also take Judo.) Though injuries do...
Let's see if I can bring this thread back full circle to something relevant to Hapkido, eh? I was flipping through this book at Borders not too...
The moderator of the Korean martial arts forum @ Bullshido is a 2nd dan in this art.
I remember the first fight I had to break up as a teacher. It was between a guy and a girl no less. They were 8th graders, and the boy flat out...
Right now it's 1 or 2 classes of Hapkido per week and one class of Judo. I try to do light weight training 2-3 times per week on top of that....
That's Butterbean's Japanese cousin, Soybean.
Nope, HKD. But in a suburban location which tends to draw the same crowd that frequents TKD schools. (No offense to serious TKD practioners out...
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