Hola
Donde está el Maestro Han en esta foto? sentado a la derecha del Maestro CHOI. Esto dice mucho de su rango en el Hapkido.
Aqui os dejo unas escenas de la pelicula que l;e hizo famaso en USA "BILLY JACK"
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=lRnra0KRnDk
Background
Han Bong-Soo was one of the world's foremost practitioners of the Korean martial art of Hapkido. He is often referred to as the "Father of Hapkido" in America.
Han began his study of hapkido as a teenager with Yong Sul Choi in Seoul, Korea.[1][2] He studied and refined this powerful Korean martial art for more than 50 years. He held the rank of 9th Dan Black Belt. He was the founder of the International Hapkido FederationTM, and was its president until his death.
Throughout his life, Han led a dedicated effort in the ongoing development of Hapkido.
Hay cosas curiosas en como se formó en el Hapkido
[edit] Early Training
During the occupation of Korea by Japan, between the years of 1910 and 1945, all school-age children were required to read, write and speak Japanese. In addition they were taught judo and kendo for discipline and physical education. Han Bong Soo studied these arts from 1943-1945.[3]
From 1948 to 1950, Han studied kwon bup, which was a mixture of Chinese chuan fa methods and Shudokan karate, and earned a black belt in the art under the late Master Byung In Yoon. Yoon's teachings later led to the development of one of the Korean schools of kong soo do and greatly influenced two of the early schools who helped to form modern Taekwondo, the chang moo kwan and the jido kwan. At the outbreak of the Korean War all schools of the martial arts were closed in Korea.[4]
There is some controversy as to how Han was introduced to the art of hapkido. In previously cited sources and a personal interview[5] Han stated that he first began his study of Hapkido under its founder, Yong Sul Choi, in 1953. However some of his contemporaries like Kwon Tae-Man and Kimm He-Young assert that his training began first in Ji Han Jae's Sung Moo Kwan group and training with Choi Yong Sul came at a later time.[6]
In the late 1950s, Han Bong Soo would meet with other instructors to train and exchange ideas. Ahi la diferencia entre escuelas , unos compartian , otros No.
From time to time, between 1956 to 1959, he traveled to Hwa Chun, Kang Won Province, where he spent time training in the art of tae kyon, under Master Bok Yong Lee.[7]
[edit] Discovering hapkido
Han and his friend Choi Seo-Oh were both employed by the Hankuk Shil Up Company which assisted other companies in bidding on Army surplus goods. Both had prior training in striking based martial arts, Choi in the Jido kwan Taekwondo and Han in kwon bup and tae kyon. However they both joined Ji's Joongbooshijang hapkido dojang in 1958 to receive extra training in order to become bodyguards to Korean Labour Party presidential candidate Jun Jin-Han. When Jun withdrew his candidacy they both decided to continue their training in hapkido.[8]
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Han Bong-Soo being older and a native of Seoul was instrumental in assisting Ji Han Jae, a senior student of Choi Yong Sul, promote the first hapkido school in the country's capital city. In 1959 Bong Soo Han opened his own hapkido school in the Samgangji section of Seoul.
Han became one of the most important teachers in the very influential Korea Hapkido Association and taught many important people in the both the Korean military and the Korean presidential guard. Eventually he secured a position teaching martial arts to U.S. security personnel at the Osan American air force base where he continued to teach for 6 years.
In 1967, during the Vietnam War, Han taught self-defense to hundreds of American and Korean military personnel as part of a demonstration team for the Korea Hapkido Association.[9]
Que has leido del Maestro Han?
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