What is Song Moo Kwan Hapkido
Sbn Ramón Navarro
What is Song Moo Kwan HapKiDo from Panama 2021 Sharing this be welcome. I, HapKiDo SabomNim (Teacher) Ramon Navarro 6th Dan Black Belt has 44 years of experience teaching this style of Korean martial art of self-defense called Song Moo Kwan HapKiDo in the country of Panama. This Martial Art from Korea was introduced by KwanjangNim (Founder of the system) Park Song IL 9th Dan Black Belt in October 1976 and the father of HapKiDo in the country of Panama. HapKiDo is a great subject since it’s a long theme of conversation besides being a new martial art since it was created or was given the name by DojuNim Ji HanJae in 1959. He DojuNim Ji HanJae learned DaeDong Ryu HapKi Yu Kwon Sul in 1949 with DojuNim Choi YongSul. In 1958 one of DojuNim Ji ’s first students was KwanjangNim Park SongIL whom
introduced this martial art in the country of Panama in 1976. From that time until he Grand Master Park arrived to Panama and started teaching this martial art in 1976 until today and there has passed 38,000 persons and only 382 have reached black belt or higher rank that we have a 7th Dan whom is BuKwanjangNim Rolando Garcia besides being president to the Panamanian HapKiDo Association in Spanish is Asociacion Panameña de HapKiDo, two 6th Dan´s and one is me SabomNim Ramon Navarro plus many lower ranks from 5th Dan´s down to 1st Dan´s and the ones that will achieve Black Belt and God permit this project to continue growing. Our KwanjangNim Park, SongIL 9th Dan and SabomNim Ramon Navarro whom is the oldest active student to Grand Master or as we say our Teacher of Teachers, KwanjangNim Park have been
developing the International Song Moo Kwan HapKiDo Federation. Since the beginning of HapKiDo back in 1945 HapKiDo it has had many names first it was called HapKi Yu Sul then HapKi Yu Kwon Sul and it had the nickname of Yawara that means Ancient JuJutsu. So in 1949 a 13 year old boy name Ji HanJae learned in his high school years while he lived in his aunt house in the city of Taegu, South Korea that had high schools and began learning under Doju Choi YongSool until he Ji HanJae finished high school and went back to his hometown Andong South Korea were he did not want to teach but learn more and had no teacher in his hometown and found a Taoist Monk named Lee that was called Lee Do-Sa wish means Taoist Monk Lee from TaeKyun and a Nun called Grandma from the art of Son Do Sul were he learned meditation and Ki development. Then he Ji Han Jae eliminated certain things he thought were not practical in TaeKyon a special kicking martial art and acrobatics plus jumps and weapons plus HapKiYuKwonSul with sword techniques so developed in a mixture of these two arts what now is known as HapKiDo. Since Ji Han Jae was born in 1936 he lived the experience of what happened in the streets of his country during and after World War II also what happened during and after the Korean War that ended in 1953 so he knew what was practical from these two arts and as mentioned before eliminated what was not practical and united what was practical and formed a system that became this new art and named it HapKiDo. It´s main style was the Sung Moo Kwan that developed into Sin Moo HapKiDo. When a HapKiDo style name uses Kwon that means that this
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