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From Wikipedia:
(The article begins: "Daegu, also spelled Taegu ...")
The sidebar has:
Daegu
대구
Daegu Metropolitan City
Hangul : 대구광역시
Hanja : 大邱廣域市
Revised Romanization : Daegu-gwangyeoksi
McCune-Reischauer : Taegu-gwangyŏksi
But again, how does this really matter?
Maybe we should drop this hijack discussion or cut-and-paste it to The Great Debate forum so this lineage thread doesn't get locked.
Because lineages are interesting and we could all stand to learn a bit more about our hapkido cousins.
One thing we all (hapkido-ists) have in common, I'm sure, is fierce pride in our lineage and style of hapkido.
GM Lee Hyun Park did not train directly under Choi, but I wouldn't trade his hapkido for training directly under Choi myself no offense to Choi, of course, but:
I LIKE that Moo Sul Kwan hapkido has a strong Yudo thread running through it (both Suh Bok Sub and Park were Judo/Yudo black belts before beginning hapkido/yawara/yusool training; and my instructor also trained Judo before finding hapkido). The full circle throws we have are, no doubt, a result of this Yudo/Judo thread.
I LIKE that Won Kwang-Wha's experience as a bodyguard in a very turbulent time in Korea led to a very practical, effective form of hapkido that was probably well-tested in life-threatening situations. Park was respected by his peers as a dangerous martial artist. Self promotion may keep these folk from saying so today, but when he was alive, he was respected by all who knew him.
I LIKE that Kim Moo Woong added in dynamic kicking I don't think I would be happy at all only training the kicks Choi brought back from Japan.
I may not go around saying it very often out of respect for practitioners of other hapkido styles, but I haven't seen a single style of hapkido out there that I like as much as that passed down from Park.
But then, I'm sure everyone pretty much feels the same about their style of hapkido
(The article begins: "Daegu, also spelled Taegu ...")
The sidebar has:
Daegu
대구
Daegu Metropolitan City
Hangul : 대구광역시
Hanja : 大邱廣域市
Revised Romanization : Daegu-gwangyeoksi
McCune-Reischauer : Taegu-gwangyŏksi
But again, how does this really matter?
Maybe we should drop this hijack discussion or cut-and-paste it to The Great Debate forum so this lineage thread doesn't get locked.
Because lineages are interesting and we could all stand to learn a bit more about our hapkido cousins.
One thing we all (hapkido-ists) have in common, I'm sure, is fierce pride in our lineage and style of hapkido.
GM Lee Hyun Park did not train directly under Choi, but I wouldn't trade his hapkido for training directly under Choi myself no offense to Choi, of course, but:
I LIKE that Moo Sul Kwan hapkido has a strong Yudo thread running through it (both Suh Bok Sub and Park were Judo/Yudo black belts before beginning hapkido/yawara/yusool training; and my instructor also trained Judo before finding hapkido). The full circle throws we have are, no doubt, a result of this Yudo/Judo thread.
I LIKE that Won Kwang-Wha's experience as a bodyguard in a very turbulent time in Korea led to a very practical, effective form of hapkido that was probably well-tested in life-threatening situations. Park was respected by his peers as a dangerous martial artist. Self promotion may keep these folk from saying so today, but when he was alive, he was respected by all who knew him.
I LIKE that Kim Moo Woong added in dynamic kicking I don't think I would be happy at all only training the kicks Choi brought back from Japan.
I may not go around saying it very often out of respect for practitioners of other hapkido styles, but I haven't seen a single style of hapkido out there that I like as much as that passed down from Park.
But then, I'm sure everyone pretty much feels the same about their style of hapkido