Hapkido may well be the world’s most comprehensive self-defense art. To prepare its practitioners for all possible situations, it includes an amazing variety of hand and foot strikes, as well as hundreds of joint locks, limb twists, pressure- point techniques and throws. All that martial knowledge enables the hapkido student to successfully defend against virtually any form of aggression that aris ...
Author: Frank Enloe
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I've just returned from a nine day stint at a pushing hands "happening" in Hanover. The structure was to have teachers from different styles and countries come together at Nils Klug's place at the Faust Culture Centre. Additionally Nils and friends put on a fun martial arts based show at the local theatre at the beginning of the happening and had demos and what can best be described as "performanc ...
Author: Dan Docherty
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It doesn’t advertise. It doesn’t allow civilians under age 28 to attend its courses. It rarely even offers classes to the public. And it requires that students undergo a background check, supply details on every place they’ve lived for the past 10 years and provide a letter from an M.D. attesting to their mental health. But it offers perhaps the best integrated armed and unarmed defensive program ...
Author: E. Lawrence
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As the Millenium turns, there is both a sense of promise and one of history. So for this issue we feel it is only fitting to take the long view, and celebrate the incredible diversity of the Chinese martial arts as it has developed over the past thousand years. However, to really give the big picture we had to back even further since for us, symbolically, kungfu is so well framed between Shaolin a ...
Author: Martha Burr
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Kungfu Spring 95
It was 1947. The Second World War was over, and Hawaii was a focal point of soldiers and marines at major bases, as well as native Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos and Koreans. This multi-national convergence often created conflicts, especially coming out of war, where fighting was instilled for personal survival; what's more, Hawaii had areas where major settlements of ...
Author: Nes Fernandez
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