Since I’m very busy at the moment I can’t maintain this blog as I’d like to be, however, I invite everyone who own’s or trains at a Hapkido Dojang to post/comment their address and type of training and I will put your Dojang into this Hapkido Directory.
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Australian Self Defence
50 Hoskins St,
Mitchell, 2911, ACT
Chief Instructor: Travis Faure (3rd Degree Hapkido)
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Combined Self Defence & Fitness
3/192 Orlando Street
Coffs Harbour, 2450, NSW
Chief Instructor: Bernard Town (4th Degree Taekwondo, 2nd Degree Hapkido)
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Kinetic Martial Arts
16 Cronulla St
Cronulla, 2230, NSW
Chief Instructor: Trent Madsen (3rd Degree Hapkido)
Website: www.kineticmartialarts.com.au
U Hok Saeng loosely translates for Korean as “A student who trains away from home”.
U Hok Saeng courses can be arranged for any period during the year outside of the currently scheduled courses. U Hok Saeng courses are held for numbers from 5-10 people to ensure that quality is kept at its highest.
The International Hapkido Alliance undertakes to give the highest level of Hapkido instruction and knowledge available. To provide the skills to teach & promote Hapkido in a professional way. To provide existing martial artists with skills in Hapkido and to enhance their current teaching.
Take the U Hok Saeng Challenge!
It’s on now Mon 5 – Fri 9 October, from 9am to 4pm.
A Typical day would see the student working on techniques each day from 9am until 4pm. There are breaks during the day for refreshments/lunch. Students are then allowed access to the normally run evening classes at the Dojang.
If I had not used all my annual leave for my Europe Trip, I’d be there right now 8-(
Where: Moorebank Dojang (AHG Headquarters)
If you want to see Hapkido at its best form, in a modern movie that’s not too corny and even has a brilliant storyline with serious actors in it – go and view Watchmen.
You are going to see a few serious (realistic) Hapkido action in some scenes and then you have some super-slow-motion moves that scratch the surface of impossibility in other cases.
Overall, however, the movie has a nice plot, extremely good effects, nice actors and as I pointed out – excellent fighting scenes. Violent and brutal but hey Hapkido at its core isn’t really nice isn’t it? Breaking bones and dislocating joints is a specialty of this art and you are going to see just about that in a street brawl.
Okay I hear you people who are arguing to say that’s not “just” Hapkido.
Maybe, but to be frank, almost all modern martial arts featuring joint locks “stole” the basic locks from Aikido, JiuJitsu and/or Judo long ago. And arm-bars are/were pretty common in Kung-Fu.
Anyway, Hapkido evolved, and still is, pretty quickly and added some nasty stuff to its style. And offers, therefore, a wide variety of handy moves you haven’t seen in older fight movies.
All in all, please watch Watchmen – it is a interesting but violent movie.
There has been bad word of mouth for it, well I guess mostly because you are going to see a dude walking around naked all the time and the probably longest erotic scene you’ve seen in a long time in a movie like that. So, I guess the first fact (nude dude) puts a lot of people off (specially men) but apart from that the movie is good.
Not suited for kids and women with weak senses, though.
It has been a while but now I’m back and god have I missed Australia.
Hapkido is pretty big in Germany and well known in Switzerland.
Austria has only a few Hapkido Dojangs in the eastern parts of Austria (Upper Austria, Vienna, Lower Austria and Styria), which actually are all based in schools.
Which is a great disadvantage as the clubs depend on the school to be open and well they are closed during summer. What a bummer.
Anyway, nice to see some different styles/ways to do Hapkido there but essentially it’s still the same.
Can’t wait to get back on the mats here.
Have you seen the new Star Trek Movie? I highly recommend it, even if you are not a Trekkie.
You will find it’s a good movie without any knowledge of the Enterprise. Good acting, interesting plot and “thank god”, they sticked true to the characters.
Okay, Cpt. Kirk seems to be a tough guy who sure can take a beating but he doesn’t seems to be very skilled in combat.
Anyway, I was arguing recently that the Security Guards used in ST are not very efficient. I have seen some wrist locks there and then in Deep Space Nine but that was the highest of martial arts used in any of those series.
A shame! If you think of it; Even today our military, special forces, the marines or anything that deals with exploration, confrontation and protection in foreign lands, or to gain insight in certain situations are all trained in close combat.
That’s a fact, anyone and I would expect at least some knowledge, not just of diplomacy, but of combat if you sending people into space.
Anyway, that’s my blurb for this matter.
Any arguments and comments are welcome. PS: Watch the new Star Trek, it’s awesome.
Get ready, the next seminar out of the extraordinary seminar-series, “The Art of…” is this weekend.
The Art of Throwing will feature 30 throws that blow your mind.
I’m sure that there will be throws that look good, will hurt, set people into space (Scotty), did I mention look good?
Anyway, get ready and make sure you will show up.
Fun is guaranteed and you will learn once more that Martial Arts, especially Hapkido is the opposite of limited (Hmm, bloody wordings, but I’m sure you get the point).
Yeah, I know – you might think: “What has Star Trek to do with Martial Arts?”
Well, followers know that I am not only convinced that Martial Arts and Science Fiction is the Ultimate Team-Up, as discussed in a previous post “The Bridge between Martial Arts & Science Fiction.“, but also believe that many other martial artists out there like Science Fiction.
Anyway, today is for many Sci-Fi fans and all Trekkers out there a special day. Star Trek has been the very reason for many to glue to the idiot box, for so many generations now and the franchise haven’t lost it’s potential.
And so I am happy to see a new “old” movie premiers today!
From the trailers and sneak previews, it seems like there’s a lot more fighting going on compared to previews Star Treks movies/series.
Apart from the FACT that previous fighting scenes were not just awfully arranged and executed but also very questionable.
Today, there are so many useful self-defence focused martial arts (Hapkido, Ninjitsu, Jiu Jitsu to name but a few) out there and Star Trek’s Star Fleet is secondary a military based federation, so wouldn’t it be worth training those guys (Ship’s Security Officers) something useful?
Anyway, I’m still looking forward to the new movie 
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