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    Tool Box Hapkido
    Tool Box Hapkido
    Tool Box Hapkido
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    Tool Box Hapkido

    By Frank Fedele

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    Tool Box Hapkido is a labor of love borne from the idea that self defense techniques can have a basis in traditional martial arts. They also can be simple and effective. This book shows a number of techniques grouped in levels to allow the user to pick up and learn whatever their training level. There are step by step instructions and pictures to help the user apply the techniques.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrank Fedele
    Release dateDec 6, 2010
    ISBN9781458182135
    Tool Box Hapkido
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    Frank Fedele

    Began his training in martial arts in 1999 taking up Taekwondo and Hapkido at a school in Frederick, MD. Through hard work and a love for the art, he earned his black belt in both disciplines, reaching 2nd degree in November of 2003. We then felt the need to explore something different, something with a little harder edge. He then branched off and trained a more hard style martial arts for a couple of years, but ultimately came back to Hapkido. He found Korean Martial Arts in Frederick, MD as a place to train and come back to his love of Hapkido. He was eventually promoted to 4th degree in Hapkido in March of 2009 under the Korean Hapkido Federation and Grand Master Hee Wk Kim. He wrote the Tool Box Hapkido book later in 2009 and came up with the seminar program soon after. He has been teaching at a variety of locations since receiving his 1st degree in 2002.

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      Tool Box Hapkido - Frank Fedele

      Chapter 1: Introduction

      Hapkido literally means the art of coordinated power. It is a Korean art that is a form of unarmed self-defense based on circular techniques. The art includes joint locks, sweeps, throws, kicks and punches. It is a complete art that focuses on three basic skills:

      Non-resistance. Meeting your opponent with minimum force to deflect the attack and not clash with the power of the attack.

      Circular motion. Which is used to both counter the opponent’s attack and return the attack in kind.

      The Water Principle. This principle allows the Hapkido practitioner to flow in and through your opponent.

      This is not a complete treatise on Hapkido. Hapkido is a large art with a variety of strikes, kicks, throws and locks. These particular portions of the art are considered hard side training because they emphasize force and power. In short, they have a hard impact to your opponent. There are also throws and locks that lean toward the soft side of the art. These techniques have more of a flow and require little power. They are still very effective, but their initial impact to your opponent is soft. There are also other elements of soft side training, with emphasis on breathing techniques and Ki training. There are many good texts on the whole art already out there. This text is not trying to be an overall source for Hapkido knowledge, but to provide a basic toolkit. The refining of these tools will take time on the mat working and experimenting. I did say experimenting. You need to take the basic concept shown and play with it a little. See how it works (or doesn’t work) in other applications. You will begin to learn how small variations in your opponent’s position or your own can totally change the technique. Differences in size and weight will also matter. You will be able to work certain techniques better on a larger opponent than a smaller one and vice versa. In short you need to become comfortable with the technique and begin to make it your own.

      I was motivated to produce this collection for two main reasons. The first was Hapkido captured my interest and has held it through 10 years of training. I am analytical by nature and I tend to want to break things down into small pieces and look at each piece intently. I also enjoy putting things together to accomplish an end goal. This is also how the title of the book you hold in your hand came about, Toolbox Hapkido. I consider each self defense technique a tool that is available in your self defense toolbox. As we add techniques, we add tools. This gives you more options.

      This text was borne from hours and hours on the mat performing technique after technique and having them performed on me. I wanted to take some of the core techniques that I have learned in my training and highlight my preferred go to moves. The application section will provide viable techniques that can be used in real situations to some success. The ones shown here are also broken down into three levels: Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. Each section is arranged for

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