Combat Hapkido
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Combat Hapkido is a modern Hapkido style founded by John Pellegrini (9th degree black belt) in 1990. Pellegrini is also the president of the International Combat Hapkido Federation (ICHF), which he founded in 1992. The ICHF was officially recognized by the Korea Kido Federation and the World Kido association in 1999.[citation needed] The style is recognized under the Korean name Chon Tu Kwon Hapkido.
[edit] Description
Combat Hapkido is different from traditional Hapkido in that it attempts to focus more on practical self defense. Pellegrini states that Combat Hapkido is not a new martial art, but a new style within the Hapkido family.[citation needed]
Along with being promoted as a stand-alone self-defense system, it is also promoted as a "bolt-on" art,[citation needed] that can be taught in modules to supplement individuals with prior martial arts instruction or to other martial-art styles seeking to diversify their self-defense knowledge. Furthermore, it is designed so techniques from other arts can be easily adjoined.
The core Combat Hapkido curriculum borrows many techniques from traditional Hapkido, while discarding other traditional techniques they believe to be ineffective for their goals. This core is then used as a platform to build upon other techniques from styles like Jeet Kune Do, Kung Fu, Jujutsu, and Western Boxing. Combat Hapkido attempts to provide a clear core platform on which the material of other Martial Art Systems can be added or removed while still maintaining the core of Combat Hapkido's principals for providing a self-defense system.
Combat Hapkido adheres to a self-defense mindset, by utilizing techniques believed by the instructors to have the greatest percentage possibility for successfully defending against an attacker. Traditional Hapkido moves which prove impractical in a real world scenario have been removed, including acrobatic break falls, jump/spinning kicks, and other low-percentage techniques. The core curriculum has been broken down into 10 levels. Reference materials, including a complete DVD reference library, are provided to schools and individual students through the ICHF.
To supplement the core curriculum, the ICHF researches and develops "modules" that are compatible with the core curriculum. Some examples are "stick and knife combatives", "ground survival" (previously referred to as "ground grappling"), "combat throws", "anatomical striking/pressure points", "trapping", "cane", "dan bong", and "weapons disarming". New modules are supported by DVDs, seminars, and local instruction. ICHF students are required to know the core curriculum for promotion and are encouraged to study various optional modules as well. Instructors may require their students to learn some of these additional technique modules. Due to the focus on self-defense, as well as the research that goes into developing new modules.
[edit] Trapping
The Combat Hapkido Trapping program is designed to be reactionary and reflexive.The techniques and drills in this program are based on JKD and Wing Chung drills and techniques. Trapping is a way to gain advantage over in opponent by manipulating them in order to accomplish a finishing technique.
