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Originally Posted by skelleher75
I have a black belt in Hapkido - got trained growing up in Korea. It's pretty cool some of the things you are able to do - when you are able to throw somebody so much bigger across room and can flip over in the air over some dudes to "avoid attack," etc. But it's is a martial "art" than a "sport." Hapkido doesn't really offer much real-life effectiveness. To be completely honest, I wouldn't even know what to do unless someone grabbed me EXACTLY where he is supposed to grab - a few inches too low or high, I can't do much of anything.
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The problem with this is that is it really that hapkido is not effective or that you were trained poorly and your not effective. If your a black belt you really should have moved beyond grabs and learned how to apply the same techniques to punches and a variety of other attacks. Basically you were taught a catalog of techniques to specific attacks rather then the principles, which is a fairly superficial understanding of any art.