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where does your personal system start?
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My personal system started with a korean by the name kimm. This man was an Serious korean practitioner of yawara, taekyon, and creativity. Where does your practice start?, and more importantly where…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by richie May 6, 2011.
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richie replied to ray james chatman's discussion where does your personal system start?"wow thats great to have knowledge in different martial arts where do you get the time and energy. I train in Hapkido and Taekwondo 6 days a week, come sunday and im shattered. But i wouldn't change it for the world i love training."
ray james chatman replied to Kris McCullar's discussion Watered Down Hapkido ???"I never judge an art by a practitioner, too often I see poorly represented arts not just hapkido. And your right it often comes from teachers who teach without understanding the underlying fundamentals of an art. This too can come when their…"
ray james chatman replied to Kris McCullar's discussion Hapkido and Hakamas"well the japanese have their style wear. the koreans are a bit different, as an american with a completely different standard of dress. I tend to wear comfort cloth, sweats and for grappling uniforms of judo. I have a large varity of uniforms and…"
ray james chatman replied to Wael's discussion Your approach to weapons training?"I teach a stick boxing class about 3hours a week, I also spend alot of time perfecting the cane/umbrella. So my weapons training is somewhere in the 25% range with 50% on my primary weapon, the other 50% on the stick which transers to my…"
ray james chatman replied to Daniel McCullar's discussion Jabs and defenses"I boxed in college and have found the jab to be very effective and nearly impossible to stop if performed properly. Hapkido does have a few techniques that work well if drilled enough. I always count on the jab as being the opening attack when an…"
SteelyJan replied to ray james chatman's discussion where does your personal system start?"First of all ...Happy New Year...all my Hapkido friends!
Wow, some of you have amazing backgrounds in martial arts...I only wish I had started earlier...sigh.. but no regrets because I threw myself into it full force at the young age of…"
Daniel McCullar replied to ray james chatman's discussion where does your personal system start?"So then you are actually referring to more of a martial arts bio."
ray james chatman replied to ray james chatman's discussion where does your personal system start?"SabomNim Ramon, Thank you this was the type of history I was hoping to see here, its the kind of history we as modern practitioners can learn from. There are many paths leading us to the current state of HapKi Do."
Wael replied to ray james chatman's discussion where does your personal system start?"SabomNim Ramon, thanks for telling your story, it's very interesting. Happy new year to you."
Ramon Navarro replied to ray james chatman's discussion where does your personal system start?"Continues:
At the beginning when I saw the first HapKiDo method I falled in love with it and joined it. I made a Black Belt technically in 11 month but my teacher did not gave me the Black Belt until 11 years latter and now it has been almost 36…"
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- At 7:20am on December 20, 2010,
Olivier - Kwang Myung Dojang said… thanxs for the request !
peace, oliv.
- At 10:04am on December 16, 2010, Wael said…
Happy birthday, Ray! It's been good having here at HapkidoNetwork.com.
- At 8:42am on December 10, 2010,
JANE WANGARI WAMAITHA said… welcome
- At 10:29pm on November 28, 2010, Wael said…
- Hello Ray, welcome to HapkidoNetwork.com.
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