The Lock On clip shows some of the fancier moves in slow motion. The DVD instructs on a variety of locks, some more practical than others.
You can say the same thing about any martial art curriculum. In fact, I have been in a lot of fights where I never used a joint lock or control move at all. But I have been in altercations where I have used locks. Have I used every lock in the Hapkido curriculum in real fights? No. Do I still practice and teach them? Yes. Part of it is teaching the martial art.
While the Lock On dvd series is not only for people in Hapkido, the majority of the techniques are right out of the Hapkido curriculum I learned in Korea and teach today in my Hapkido classes and seminars. I enjoy joint locks, as do many others, and that is why I put this series together, so people could learn locks. There are many varieties taught in the dvds, and by learning them all, and then going beyond what I teach to form you own combintations and such based on the principles taught in the dvds you can master joint locks so you have extra tools at your disposal for certain situations. I say on each dvd that locks are not everything, and they are not for every situation.
If you check out my Streetfighting Essentials video set with Paladin Press you will see that I teach an entire program of what I feel are some of the most basic and essential things to learn for self-defense and there is not a lock in either tape. (Should also be available in dvd later this year)
I even say in the Lock On dvds that some locks are more for show and demonstrations rather that for the street, but demonstrations are a part of many martial arts, and those techniques are also fun to learn and train with. So in that regard, they are important to learn. Also, if you can perform the more complicated locks, you most likely can better perform the easier ones.
And yes, size and strength matter. Anyone who says different has not been there. I have used locks on people much bigger than me. However, there are some locks, some pressure points, etc. that just don't seem to work on some people. When that happens you must be able to go to something else immediately.
The dvds are meant to teach concepts of joint locking with a wide variety of techniques so the viewer can learn this one area of martial arts and self-defense. Locks are not everything, they are just a piece of the whole.
In other programs, I teach other aspects of Hapkido, self-defense, and the martial way. In the Hapkido videos and others out there that teach joint locks, I feel this set will be more beneficial for people to actually learn from. From the reviews my first video with Paladin Press, Hapkido Hoshinsul, has gotten, I feel confident that these will also be valuable training aids for anyone who wants to better their joint locking ability.
Yours in Training,
Alain
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