Hapkido Essentials – Lee Chang-soo

Hapkido Essentials – Lee Chang-soo

Hapkido is a complete self-defense art, encompassing a full range of striking, kicking, throwing and immobilization techniques. On the Hapkido Essentials DVD, learn the kicks, strikes and blocks of Hapkido from Grandmaster Myung Yong Kim, founder of Hapkido Jin Jung Kwan, and Grandmaster Chang Soo Lee, head of Hapkido Jin Jung Kwan. The grandmasters and some of their top instructors in Korea, personally teach you over 75 hapkido techniques including:

* Stance
* Danjun Breathing: beginner, intermediate and advanced levels
* Vital point attacking
* Vital point theory
* Striking: elbow, knifehand and backfist
* Blocking: single and double arm
* Falling: forward, backward, side, aero and rolling falls
* Kicking: single, double, combinations and special kicks for a total of 51 kicks!

This comprehensive instructional DVD was filmed on location in Korea. Together with Hapkido Self-defense Volumes 1 and 2, this DVD presents a complete self-defense system. Learn directly from the headmaster, founder and international demonstration team members of this dynmaic Korean art.

About the Actor

Lee Chang-soo is the Chief of the Demonstration Unit for the World Hapkido Federation and Headmaster of Hapkido Jin Jung Kwan in Seoul, Korea. He became a Korean national hero in 1980 when he knocked out the best Indonesian champions at his first blow. The National Defense Ministry of Indonesia attempted to invite him as a national coach. Korean government officers designated him to the Chief of the Demonstration Unit. He is one of the first generation masters who learned from Grandmaster Kim Myung-yong (currently residing in Houston, Texas), the founder of Jin Jung Kwan Hapkido.