HOW TO CREATE A MARTIAL ART CASE STUDY: COMBAT HAPKIDO
Black Belt|Summer 2023
On October 22, 2022, the International Combat Hapkido Federation celebrated its 30th anniversary. As you might expect, we're proud of our organization's longevity, stability and success.
JOHN PELLEGRINI
HOW TO CREATE A MARTIAL ART CASE STUDY: COMBAT HAPKIDO

With hundreds of martial arts schools, military bases and law-enforcement departments teaching our system, in addition to our many magazine cover appearances and hall-of-fame inductions, we have good reason to celebrate.

Many martial artists I've met have expressed interest in creating their own system, so I thought I'd review the history of the ICHF to let everyone know how the process unfolded for us.

Many people hold the naive - and mistaken - assumption that the founders of martial arts systems receive a sudden inspiration akin to a mystical experience. Reality is not that glamorous. The creation of a system involves years of hard work, sacrifice, research and difficult choices. No one wakes up one morning and casually declares, “I am going to make a new martial art!” (Well, some people probably do, but they usually lack credibility.)

The process of founding a style or system is painstaking, demanding and complex. It’s an endeavor that requires creativity, commitment, discipline, humility and strong technical knowledge. And it’s always rooted in a profound understanding of the original art. Yes, at the root of every new style lies an “original art” that’s been modified, refined, modernized and used as a foundation or framework.

Hapkido is a Korean martial art reportedly founded in 1948 by Yong-sool Choi (1904– 1986). He lived in Japan for more than 30 years, which is where he received his training in the respected system known as daito-ryu aikijujitsu under its headmaster Sogaku Takeda (1859–1943).

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