What is the Hapkido?
The Hapkido is a self-defense method of Korean origin that uses: projections, holds, slides, kicks, pressures on nerves and muscles, all type attacks, grappling and weapons training.
All these techniques can be executed in two different ways, defensive and offensive.
What can the Hapkido offer?
In time and training, the Hapkido offers a high-level technical and a wide-ranging program of self-defense techniques that can be a useful complement in practice and teaching of another disciplines.
Bearing in mind its characteristics, the practice of Hapkido increases the quick reflexes and the psychomotor coordination.
An indepth anatomical and biomechanic knowledge of our own body.
A new vision of the martial art and a renewed interest of the students (the boredom and the routine are the main reasons from what the students leave the practice of the Hapkido).
A personal security thanks to the learning of fast, direct and severe techniques.
Effectiveness and realism in the training sessions.
The discovery for many "sportsmen" of an original martial art without champions nor medals.
A wide repertoire of kicks (44).
The full command of the art of the joints manipulation and projections (¡remember Steven Seagal!).
The use of weapons: short wood, long wood, rope or belt, knife and walking cane.
A respiratory control through exercises of isometric breathing.