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Old 11-16-2003, 05:57 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Tom Yum


I have to agree that you dont need a set of 12 techniques to escape from wrist grabs and 12 for lapel reversal

There arent really that many moves in Hapkido. Plus, during grading, we only need to learn one move per situation (one for wrist, one for choke, one for elbow etc).

There are different 'levels' of moves. There are basic self defence moves learnt by colour belts, then there are more difficult (and much more painful) black belt self deffence moves: which can be subtly different versions of the basic moves.

The idea that we spend years learning simple hand grab reversals isnt true, youd be past that in a few weeks in our school (while also learning kicking and falling techniques).
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