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Hapkido
Hapkido is a form of self-defense consisting joint locks, pressure points, throws, kicks and other forms of strikes. Hapkido is a martial art including both long and close range fighting techniques, using different forms of kicking and percussive hand strikes at longer ranges and pressure point strikes, jointlocks, or throws at closer fighting distances. The Meaning of Hapkido: The purpose of Hapkido is expressed in its name "the way of co-ordinated power".  History of the creator and Hapkido:  Hapkido is a Korean art of self-defence. It was created by Choi,Young Sool (1904-1986). Master Choi was born in Chung Buk, province of Korea in 1904 and was orphaned at the age of 8. He was brought to Japan by a candy maker who also abandoned him. He was left on the streets and begged for food. He was adopted by a Japanese man who gave him the name Tatujutu Yoshida. However, Yoshida faced many problems at school because he was a foreigner. His new father gave him a choice either to go to school, or to study martial arts. Thus began Yoshida’s life of martial arts at the age: he was sent to Sokaku Takeda, head of a martial arts school called Daito-Ryu Aikijujutsu. Some say that Yoshida first went to Sokaku’s school as a “house boy”, later becoming a personal servant attending some seminars at the school. Others believe that he was adopted by Sokaku as his own. According to Yoshida himself, he was the only student in the school to master close to 400 Daito-Ryu Aikijujutsu techniques. By the end of World War II, Yoshida returned to Korea, changing his name back to his original name Choi, Young Sool. There, Suh, Bok-Sup, who owned the first Dan in judo saw and noticed Choi and requested he teach him his techniques. Together, Choi, Young Sool and Suh, Bok-Sup developed the art of Hapkido, with a combination of Choi’s techniques learned in Japan and Suh’s techniques in Judo. ( video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLbjpRFI3YA&feature=related)
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