I want to ask with all due respect : the techniques seems to be executed flawlessly but , when is one going to use this on the street? A fight that starts by someone grabbing your wrist or your arm is not impossible certainly but unlikely, so why not train for what is most common ? like a punch or a push or a head lock? why not BEGIN with that and then train for what is most uncommon? Thats really the only thing that prevents me from doing Hapkido , is I don't feel it prepares you for a real life confrontation , would you mind commenting on this? Thanks
Well, there is some misconstrual of what you are seeing here. These techniques are not presented as "what you do in a self defense scenario." If someone were to grab your sleeve, for example, there are numerous far more direct and easy ways to end the confrontation than these subtle swims and applications of locks. How about just a direct punch in the nose with the other hand? How about a kick? Why am I snaking him into a takedown? Since these grappling techniques are only one side of our art and we are in fact training kicks and punches at the same time, one would have to ask why we don't use the kicks and punches we are working on here? The answer is that what these techniques are instead, and why they are part of the foundational curriculum, are drills to teach the skill of GRAPPLING according to aiki/hapki principles. Grappling is complex. When grappling or wrestling happens, one is seized all over, and weight is lurched to the left, right, forwards and backwards. Both contend with each other and try to pull into headlocks, etc. The skill of hapkido is to meet that wrestling scenario WITHOUT using strength and muscular force. It's a very very difficult prospect, and to expect someone to learn that by throwing someone into the midst of that complexity is impossible. If you think of all those forces coming from all those angles as a very complex equation, then what we are doing is extracting smaller, individual components of that equation and looking at them in isolation. We are learning the skill of algebra so that we can then tackle trigonometry, then calculus, and then chaos math. It's the same as learning a single kick or a single punch. You train those movements in isolation, but you don't expect that a single jab is all you will need to win. Later, you are able to build all your strikes into combinations, and then it's understood that self defense proceeds from the execution of those combinations. These techniques are the individual moves in grappling. You learn the flow and sense of one wrist or lapel seizure, and then you can apply them in combination with multiple locks.
Take these, for example: ruclips.net/video/gVyHGZ3js70/видео.html Here are all the "headlocks, etc" that you were asking about. But they're later in the curriculum precisely because they are easier.
It had the same parent art, Kuk Sool Hwe. Kuk Sool Kwan has more practical training. It was used in 1974 to form the basis of the Korean Special Forces program.
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I want to ask with all due respect : the techniques seems to be executed flawlessly but , when is one going to use this on the street? A fight that starts by someone grabbing your wrist or your arm is not impossible certainly but unlikely, so why not train for what is most common ? like a punch or a push or a head lock? why not BEGIN with that and then train for what is most uncommon? Thats really the only thing that prevents me from doing Hapkido , is I don't feel it prepares you for a real life confrontation , would you mind commenting on this? Thanks
Well, there is some misconstrual of what you are seeing here. These techniques are not presented as "what you do in a self defense scenario." If someone were to grab your sleeve, for example, there are numerous far more direct and easy ways to end the confrontation than these subtle swims and applications of locks. How about just a direct punch in the nose with the other hand? How about a kick? Why am I snaking him into a takedown? Since these grappling techniques are only one side of our art and we are in fact training kicks and punches at the same time, one would have to ask why we don't use the kicks and punches we are working on here?
The answer is that what these techniques are instead, and why they are part of the foundational curriculum, are drills to teach the skill of GRAPPLING according to aiki/hapki principles. Grappling is complex. When grappling or wrestling happens, one is seized all over, and weight is lurched to the left, right, forwards and backwards. Both contend with each other and try to pull into headlocks, etc. The skill of hapkido is to meet that wrestling scenario WITHOUT using strength and muscular force. It's a very very difficult prospect, and to expect someone to learn that by throwing someone into the midst of that complexity is impossible. If you think of all those forces coming from all those angles as a very complex equation, then what we are doing is extracting smaller, individual components of that equation and looking at them in isolation. We are learning the skill of algebra so that we can then tackle trigonometry, then calculus, and then chaos math.
It's the same as learning a single kick or a single punch. You train those movements in isolation, but you don't expect that a single jab is all you will need to win. Later, you are able to build all your strikes into combinations, and then it's understood that self defense proceeds from the execution of those combinations. These techniques are the individual moves in grappling. You learn the flow and sense of one wrist or lapel seizure, and then you can apply them in combination with multiple locks.
Take these, for example: ruclips.net/video/gVyHGZ3js70/видео.html Here are all the "headlocks, etc" that you were asking about. But they're later in the curriculum precisely because they are easier.
how is different from Kuk Sool Won?
It had the same parent art, Kuk Sool Hwe. Kuk Sool Kwan has more practical training. It was used in 1974 to form the basis of the Korean Special Forces program.
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