I recently got my black belt in Hapkido and to do so had to perform something like 120 moves and know more like 180 and i see all these moves as being effective as they could be (apart from my own imperfections ofcourse).
Maybe your teacher lacked the personal refinement you were looking for. There are a great many teachers in Hapkido who gain a blackbelt (which doesnt take too long in Hapkido) and then begin teaching...this is compounded by the Hapkido Federation being moslty confined to Korea, so there is nothing stopping an underqualified master from teaching (or in some cases claiming to be Grand Masters!).
Im not saying that you teacher was underqualified, just that they might have been.
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