Korean martial art which uses mainly locks, holds and throws. Literally translated "The Way of the coordinated Power". The main principle of Hapkido is to blend with your adversary's attack, yielding enough to deflect it in a circular pattern before adding your own power in the form of a strike or a throw. The modern form of Hapkido was developed by Master Yong Sohl Choi. He was a practitioner of the Korean martial art Tae Kwon (which became Taekwondo) who moved to Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910-1945). There he studied Judo and Daito-Ryu Aikijitsu. Choi combined Tae Kwon's techniques with their "hard" style with the soft-styled techniques from ju-jutsu. When he returned to Korea at the end of World War II, he founded the first Hapkido school.

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