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WHEN YOU TEACH SOMETHING ELSE THAT IS NOT YOUR SPECIFIC ART... SBN Ramón Navarro
Sbn Ramón Navarro
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Achieving the expansion of the Song Moo HapKiDo of the International Song Moo Kwan HapKiDo Federation through the technical director SabomNim Ramón Navarro 6th Dan based in the Republic of Panama in support of the KwanjangNim Park Song IL is also a member of the Korea HapKiDo Federation as Panama Branch.
All martial arts in general have something similar in themselves, but I will specify that they are divided into two types, hard and soft. It is not really that they are hard or that they are soft, but it is accepted that the soft in Japanese type are JuDo, Jujutsu and Aikido that to say when defending or attacking they do not do it as they say force against force. These are known as the hard ones, such as Karate or Taekwondo, among others, as well as TangSooDo among the Korean arts, but in the various KungFu most are hard, that is, linear and the soft ones more tend to make their application in a circular way. The best known KungFu suabes are TaiChi Chuan, Bagua Chuan and Ching I Chuan. Well, there are the hybrid arts that I will only mention the HapKiDo and it is linear as well as circular. This martial art contains everything except that in some schools the teachers have not learned everything completely and other teachers who do, choose what they like and that is what they teach. Correctly it is not that the others are not learned correctly, but some focus more on some things than others. HapKiDo actually covers how I call this activity formally they do The HapKiDo Hand or 5 segments that are the stretches that include calisthenics with exercises standing up as well as sitting and even lying down as one of the 5 fingers of the hand. Another finger is the kicks that basically are more or less 21 kicks that are the ones that are trained daily all together by beginners with the most advanced. Then the blocks and then the various strikes. In the correct order, one ends up doing the falls and stunts that can be said are not requirements because if a person or student of HapKiDo does not have the ability to do these stunts, they may not only become a black belt or higher rank. After the HapKiDo hand there are other activities that belong to learning, which are the techniques that the art must use to advance in rank and include in the defense blows, breaks better known as dislocations, projections or throws and sweeps, as well as defenses with kicks. Then there is the combat. Weapons are taught in many schools before black belt, but they must be learned from Cho Dan or First Dan up to Dan or Black Belt grades. In all martial arts there are what can be said are weaknesses, that is, something is missing because there are 4 distances that are the distant where you can defend yourself or attack kicks. The medium distance where you can use the hand strikes mostly also the short distance
where you can apply obstacles, that is when you are standing and there is the melee distance when the moment comes when the fight came to be lying on the ground. Many teach it as that is all they need to learn, but the truth is that it should not be forgotten that the hard arts use the distances where there is no fighting and the soft arts mostly seek to reach the short distance and the ground. Each one may not know what to do if they reach this state in the fight and do not know or do not have applications to use to defend themselves properly, whether they do not have them or have not learned them. There are other masters who see some application of another martial art, well it does not have to be considered a martial art such as wrestling or boxing that can also be learned more than for sports or they seem things that would not be based on the rules of that sport, that is, they are for self-defense. They incorporate them into their repertoire, but they do not tell their students that since people are not perfect, but they can improve, they use them in their curriculum as their own. This must not be so. If a martial art is linear or hard and you don't use many high kicks and you find use for some high kicks and incorporate them into your repertoire you should tell your students that this technical application can help in such a situation and you will teach them and let them know they won't come in exams unless it is known to make a distinction that they should be taught at that type of stage and not before. Also, those who use high kicks that can use a certain low kick in self-defense situations and if they are sports-oriented these cannot be used in tournaments or competitions. As in boxing itself you can copy kicks for the short distance, even in martial arts you can copy things from boxing, etc. I don't know if the purity of a martial art deteriorates if things that are not usual in that system are mixed into it. Now in entertainment sports such as MMA they say they are MMA black belts which is not logical because Mixed Martial Art is a method of fighting not a martial art so to speak or to understand you can get rank from that activity as I have heard that there is a black belt in Kick Boxing, which is not true either. What I believe is that the martial art should be respected and not fail the students that one has by giving ranks or buying ranks that are not logical as I see they are shown as a doctor of combat arts that does not exist either. It is not really worth saying that there is everyone because they would be deceiving students as well as parents who are the ones who pay for their children's classes and even inventing such ranges that chronologically the numbers do not add up. We are going to leave it there because if I continue it may bother someone, which is not my intention, but the truth is that this is a fever that is running around the world.
