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Unlike many of today's martial arts that are oriented to sport games, Hapkido has stuck to the traditional martial arts.   Hapkidoists who like the tradition and originality say, "It is not a game to see who wins and places first and second."   They point out that Hapkido is  martial art that needs both physical and spiritual training.  They classify the physical  training as a kind of skill called "Hapkisul" and the spiritual training as a principle called "Hapkibup".  Hapkidbup contains elements of developing personality and a power of  inner body strength through mental training such as "chigam", "chosik", and "Gumchok" 
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Chigam means stopping senses. The senses here refer to the thinking you need to get your mind ready for hapkido training.  

Chosik means breathing control. It is very important important in Hapkido training to breath evenly, get your mind calmed down, and make your mind and body into one.

Gumchok means forbidding the senses with takes a high level of training. It is reaching a mental state where you will overcome a matter of lift and death by not depending on your five senses.

Hapkido has adopted and ideology of a completeness of noble personality which is comprised of three elements. : "Tongsung", "Chimyung", and "Bojung" which stems from  the ancient Dangun Period. 

Tongsung considers the human nature that lies in the mind, and thus a human should  develop a moral goodness by smoothing the mind. 

Chimyung is to get wisdom by controlling the mind. 

Bojung is get physical energy to protect the body.

Hapkibup is a training  process that reaches a completeness of persolnality by the three elements of tongsung, chimyung, and bojung through the training of chigam, chosik, and gumchok. 

Practicing Hapkibup, as a skill of physical training will teach three kinds of body skills which are also based on Hapkibup.  There are hand and foot body skills, pole and sword, as well as spear in the tools. 

Hapkido puts an emphasis on spiritual achievement rather than the physical one.  As a result, Hapkisul is defensive martial art rather than an offensive art.

The fundamental principles of Hapkido which are harmony, wholeness, and dynamics coincide with the flow of the world and the theory of life and death of all the world's creation. 

The Korean Hapkido founder, Mr,Choi, Yong-Sul said, "when you are 40, you can get to know the primary skills." This expresses how difficult Hapkido training is.
 

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What were the kicking techniques Doju Nim Choi taught?
There were ten kicking techniques.
What were the ten kicks that Doju Nim Choi taught?
Doju Nim Choi¡¯s kicking philosophy was to kick the lower part of the body. He said it is very dangerous to kick the upper part. Because Hapkido is not a sport, but it is a martial art, he said ¡°that you would be fatally wounded only by one mistake¡±. So, Doju Nim Choi¡¯s kicking techniques mostly consisted of those to the lower and vital parts of the body.
Those are as follows;
* Kicking the lower ankle.
* Kicking the groin 1.
* Kicking the groin 2.
* Kicking the knee joint with the side foot knife
* Kicking the knee joint with the front foot knife.
* Kicking the femoral part downward.
* Winding the spine and kicking.
* Spinning and kicking the leg joint.
* Kicking the chin.
* Kicking backward with the rear foot.                                     - Grandmaster Lim`s Interview

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