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Date Last Modified: 6/16/01
This is your first colored
belt. Now the fun begins because you get to start
sparring and doing Hapkido. Sparring is where you
practice combat with one of your peers. You get to
wear various pads (headgear, chest guard,
mouthpiece, etc.), but sparring isn't just bashing
the other person up. There are rules. Sparring
isn't all fun because you have to learn to defend
yourself. If you don't learn to defend yourself
someone might attack you someday and you could get
hurt. Of course, it is still fun to do sparring
because you get to hit or kick another person as
hard as you can to the stomach and kick lightly to
the other person's head. Hapkido is learning
techniques to defend yourself if someone grabs you
by the arm, sleeve, hair, neck, etc. You learn how
to escape the other person's grasp and how to use
their pressure points and their weak spots to
counterattack them. There are an infinite number of
Hapkido techniques. By getting promoted to
yellow belt, you also get a new form to learn,
called Taeguk E Jang. This is the only form where
you use a high punch. . . . . . Korean
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Three step sparring
Hapkido
Grandmaster
Chan-Yong Kim
Jimmy
Kim
