Welcome to Ramon Navarro's HAP-KI-DO Panama and be blessed with a productive year 2009.
Just to clear out the meaning of our Page Name RANA: The name to the Teacher or SabomNim is RA-mon NA-varro.
He has been in the Martial Arts nearly 49 Years.
Teaching the Martial Arts around 35 years and have Black Belts in Tae-Kwon-Do (1971-December), Tang-Soo-Do (1975-July), under Master: Prospero M Ellis 6th Dan and direct student to G/M Kim, ChunSik 8th Dan and founder of ITF or International Tang Soo Do Federation. Master Navarro has been teaching Song Moo Kwan HapKiDo 31 years under G/M Park, Song-IL 9th Dan and Student of G/M and HapKiDo-founder Mr. Ji, Han-Jae.
Mr. RANA 5th Dan also was Master Park's (back then 7th Dan in 1977, now 9th Dan) Assistant for 13 and half years. Then, independent for the past 18 years and the first of G/M Park's student with his own Academy or Do-Jang/Martial Art School whith the name 'Academia de Hap-Ki-Do : Song Moo Kwan' at Marcasa urbanization at the Los Alamos Building, Local #5 in front the 99 Supermarket at Plaza Carolina Panama in Jose A. Arango Ave.
Ramon Navarro is an affiliated member to the 'Panama HapKiDo Association' or 'Asociacion Panamenia de HapKiDo'.
Hap Ki Do is a Korean Martial Art which embodies exercises that specialize in Flexibility and Stretching. All Types of Kicks even flying plus special ones. Defensive and Offensive hand movement and techniques. Falls-Rolls with Acrobatics and Self-Defense with sparring and combat training.
Weapons from Red level-up.
Also G/m. Park has 2 Academies and directs the Association in the country of Panama as technical director and BuKwanjangNim Rolando Garcias 6 Dan as the Panama HapKiDo Association President.
These Organization has a total of 3 schools authorized to teach HapKiDo in the country of Panama. The 3rd of this schools belongs to Master/SabomNim RANA or Ramon Navarro.
Panama is a Latin American country in Central America. Here we have the Panama Canal.
Classes are for everyone, all gender and ages even with previous experience.
We recommend that classes be everyday; from Monday to Friday or at least 3 days a week and lasts an hour each class.
The Schedules Are:
Monday to Friday. We have 3 groups, what we call the normal is 5 days a week and what we call Plan B being 3 days a week as Plan C is for 2 days a week.
CHILD Ages 4 to 12 from 6pm until 7pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday or tueday, thursday and other day of the week !
5 days, 3 days or 2 days a week:
YOUTH Ages are 13 up from 6:00Pm To 7:00Pm from Monday to Friday
ADULTS with YOUTH ages from 15 up are From 7:00Pm until 8:30Pm.
The Telephone # (507) 233-0296 and Cel # (507) 6669-0927
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Activities:
1) Regular class and spreading flyers to promote our Dojang/School for the 2009 Regular school year classes that start in March.
2) Testing on March 10.
3) Friendship Day will be on Saturday, March 29 at 2pm, be there with your friend.
4) Grand Master/KwanjangNim Park SongIL promoted Black Belts and in the testing Mastr/SabomNim Ramon Navarro received his 5th Dan and certificates were handded out on February 26.
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Be welcome to our/your Academy
HAPKIDO a Brief History
HapKiDo the Korean martial art of self defense is not a sport thought it is very competitive. It is a very healthy activity. HapKiDo is made for one to be able to counter any attack that arises, it is a very versatile self-defense system. Includes all types of kicks, falls, punches, strikes and is well encompassed for real life. It is very widespread around the world and it is relatively a young martial art even thought it has very ancient roots.
HapKiDo is a new name to the martial arts world even, with an earlier name and nicknames. For example: YuSul, PiSul, HoSinSul, KwonBop and Yawara (as it was its nickname when it came to Korea after WWII. Corea, as it is more commonly known, is an incorrect pronunciation for it to be a name therefore we will use the K for Korea not the C for Corea). It was introduced to Korea after WWII ended by a man that in his very youth age of 9 was taken as an adopted son to an influential, wealthy and very respected person in Japan and lived, worked and helped the man for whom it was Mr. Takeda, Sogaku the inheritor of a martial art from Japan that was very well respected and known as Daito Ryu AiKi Ju Jutsu. This kid was Mr. Choi, YongSul for whom we are very gracious about taking the decision that Mr. Takeda offered which was 'I will soon die and since you were young you had always wanted to have the opportunity to go back to your country and since this are very turbulent times it be better if you take advantage and go there. You are a free man!'.
Because of that he had the opportunity of having HapKiDo for us today.
Today we have the name HapKiDo as it was shortened by Mr. Ji, HanJae (10th Dan and known as the father of modern HapKiDo and a direct student of Mr. Choi). At first when it arrived Korea it was Called 'DaeDong Ryu HapKi Yu Sul' from the translation of 'Daito Ryu AiKi Ju Jutsu' and nicknamed Yawara: the reason why it was changed was because it was a Japanese martial arts name and the Korean people did not like it because of all the wrong doing by the Japanese during the nearly 40 years of invasion. So it was called HapKi Yu Sul but the problem was that it would be confused with Judo so the word 'fist' or 'Kwon' was added and it became 'HapKi Yu Kwon Sul'.
Before this in time, HapKiDo in Japan can be traced back to around 1,100Ad and in Korea it can be traced back to the three kingdom era wish were: Koguryo, Paekche and SilLa
The kingdon of Silla went to war and united the 3 kingdoms so from here on back, it can be traced to the first kingdom of Korea the 'Ko-ChoSun' from wish the legendary mythical figure known to be the Korean race's Father: Dan Gun comes from (Dan Gun the first Korean King was son of the prince of the heavens or a heavenly being, son of God whom came down from heaven and united the hole country�s tribes for them to beome the first of Korean race).
Again, back to the present, HapKiDo Yu Kwon Sul. Mr. Choi at one time had a kid neighbor whose age was 13 and his name is Mr. Ji, HanJae whom is the person for which the name HapKiDo can be accredited for. Also he is known to be modern HapKiDo Father. He, Master Ji started HapKiDo in 1949 and was the one whom thought that the name HapKi Yu Kwon Sul was to long and since he had seen other martial arts using the word 'Do' which means Way, Path or Art took it instead of the word 'Sul' whish meant Technique. Then, thought that since 'Do' was also known to name martial arts like KongSooDo, TangSooDo, TaeKwonDo, YuDo (for the Korean version of JuDo from Japan) and KarateDo for example and thinking 'HapKi Yu Kwon Do' was still long and the word Kwon meaning Fist, and the word Yu meaning Soft had no real expression to the strong part of the art with the new kicks it did not include from Mr. Choi's style that used a few and low kicks.
He Mr. Ji, HanJae decided to take them away and use as a shorter name Hap Ki Do and it became heard as one syllable: HapKiDo that became what it is now !***
Now this being a chain type of activity, in 1957 a boy at the age of 13 began its HapKiDo training under Grand Master Ji, Han Jae and it is Grand Master Park, SongIL (9th Dan under Mr. Ji, HanJae the 10th Dan). He, Mr. SongIL Park brought the Korean Martial Art of Self Defense: HapKiDo, to the Central American country of Panama. Starting classes in October 22, 1976 with his own and authorized style (Yu Pa) called Song Moo Kwan HapKiDo or the Natural Martial Art of HapKiDo. During 1977 and 1978 he, Master Park taught the Panama Canal Zone Police and started teaching in the American Army Base of Ft. Clayton and the American Howard Air Force Base and in 1979 went fulltime teaching in the City of Panama. In the new year, 1977 came in and with it an experienced martial artist with Black Belts in TaeKwonDo (December 1971) and TangSooDo (July 1975 and an instructor in the US military base of Fort Clayton in the Panama Canal Zone area) at age 24 is the oldest active student to Grand Master Park and also his first assitant and first student to have a Dojang or Martial art School. Now 29 years teaching HapKiDo, Ramon Navarro 4th Dan with school at Los Alamos building, Local #5 in Marcasa Urbanization (in front of the 99 Supermarket at Plaza Carolina), Panama.
HAPKIDO a Point Of View
Mr. Choi, YongSul in 1945 officially founded a complete Korean Martial Art style that revolutionized the perception which the world had about the Korean Martial Arts and called his new system HapKiDo (the Art of Coordinated Power).
Korea was represented only by peaces of its complete spectrum of martial arts like TangSooDo and TaeKwonDo (whose emphasis is in hard striking with the legs and fist) YuSul (soon renamed YuDo- with a 'Y' being the Korean Form of Japanese Judo) and HoSinSul (martial art of the so called 'soft' styles witch pleases emphasis in attacking the pressure points) and techniques like AiKiDo (with holds and locks)
Many martial artists with a hunger for a more complete knowledge of the fighting arts came to Mr. Choi for instruction. One of these was a 13 year old boy whos name is Ji HanJae with a prestigious 10th Dan is actually the greatest HapKiDo instructor (with every body's respect).
Slowly, the Korean public started to understand HapKiDo. At first they only saw the great variety of kicking techniques. Afterwards, the holds and the striking on pressure points were made evident. Finally the sweeps and throws from HapKiDo which placed this martial art into a complete perspective.
In HapKiDo there is no existence of 'Hyung'-(Kata) or the compound combination of techniques known as 'Forms' / HapKiDo�s shadow boxing whish are connected for the development of power and speed in the martial artist in general. So through this type of training in HapKiDo power could be developed equally or faster then with a set of 'Forms'.
Missing these structured 'Forms' would not keep HapKiDo to also complement its training with a vast array of traditional weapons training. Since the HapKiDo hand techniques are similar to those thought in the weapons training, the learning of these are easily assimilated.
HapKiDo utilize ancient Korean weapons as all types of sticks, the 'Bong', Swords and knifes of all types, the 'Ching' and 'Tando' in between others as the modern weapons, for example: the Revolver.
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Hapkido Training and Benefits
Hapkido is a complete martial art, it embodies a complete training. It is based on stretching and flexibility. The main emphasis is seen with a lot of leg work, then you can see its application of a big variation of defensive and offensive hand techniques followed with an array of locks, holds and throws with an evident use of pressure points techniques. Therefore all types of falls and rolls as acrobatic movements in it can be used for Self Defense.
The purpose of martial training seems to be based on the body's workout to end up having a better physical constitution with the end result being the strengthening of the mind to achieve a balance with the body to enrich the persons life so one - with out the religious part - getting to live up life through the spirits growth. This can be achieved in different ways. In our HapKiDo training here in Panama and at the 'Academia de HapKiDo' we train the acupuncture meridians by the way of the exercises done whish strengthen us from the inside to the outside. In opposite to what it is the normal custom from the outside in.
The workout must be directed to the whole body. Therefore, we will be doing exercises that are directed to the Spine which can give it flexibility and strength it by way of stretches that will permit once the spine is strong and flexible for the nervous system to work better, strengthening the inner organs then on their own, will strengthen the outer side of the body - the muscles - so the body can be more agile and free for movements.
Now, the body is formed with and instead of the outside - in, the inside - out: bones, cartilages, muscles, tendons and the skin besides the few different kinds of systems. Thereby, after training the spine we will be a complete being and having 5 extremes which are 2 arms, 2 legs and the torso witch includes the head be healthier. So to strengthen them we will do it in such a manner: the inside to the out by exercising: The legs by kicking techniques which will include the jumps, flying or distance jumps and the special kicks. The arms by doing defensive and offensive hand techniques and the torso by the falling techniques which include the falls, rolls, and the acrobatic movements to make a complete training for the end results: achievement, which ought to be the making of a better person and this can only be when you get to the SECRET witch is: 'reaching inner peace'.
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Training & Practice
In most cases the student is going to a martial arts school thinking that he will practice there. These thought is good to be as training not as practice. In training you do two things 1) Learn new things 2) Review old things?
The thought of practice is to be kept for when not being able to come to your martial art school and do training the of the old things at home or were ever you are at that moment.
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