Hello Hapkido Friends,
Master Feathers and family have kindly resumed filming for us. Yesterday I uploaded a score of new video to the high-yellow throws. I've got a couple more that require editing before I can upload them but I hope to get them posted by the end of the week. Once I've uploaded the remaining Side to Side video, High Yellow will be more or less complete. I may add some small things over time to fine tune but the core content is in place. I would just like to express my gratitude to Master Feathers and his family for taking the time to contribute to Hapkido Online. Master Tim says "on to Green Belt!" I find his lesson on the 'snake' technique to be particularly interesting. It's a complicated move and his lesson really helps clarify it. My original goal was to complete all the basic training content for First-Dan by Hapkido Online's one year anniversary on February the 7th. Needless to say I am behind schedule. As I promised last February I will keep the content coming just as fast as I can. Since February we have had fan email from people all over the world. Like a brick and mortar Dojang Hapkido Online students come and go. I am proudest of those of you who train with us regularly. Hapkido Online continues to gradually increase in internet traffic. Our best single day had 395 page views and nearly half of those were from new people (unique visitors). We average roughly 1,500 page views a month. Our student base remains small which is good. I would rather have a solid core group with quality training. I recently added better page navigation for those of you accessing us from your smart phones and other portable devices. If you simply click the training page http://www.hapkido-online.com/training.html. You can now jump to any training page from that one index. We have found the site worked pretty well on computers but the smart phones struggled with the dropdown menus so this index page ought to make it all easier. Thank you Mr. Mudry for the suggestion. If anybody has input or ideas that will improve Hapkido Online I love to get feedback. In August I added a Hapkido Online Credo: http://www.hapkido-online.com/hapkido-online-credo.html This is seven personal goals we should all hold dear. Well that is all I have for now. I wish you all the very best. Thank you for being patient whilst we moved into our new home. Now that things are settling down I look forward to working with all of you again. For those of you I haven't heard from in a while I would like to call roll. I look forward to hearing from you all. Very Respectfully and God Bless, Jon Ferguson www.hapkido-online.com
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Well I am on the other side of my massive household move. After a weak of leave I am back to work and back to Hapkido Practice. Thank you students for your patience. We are still unpacking and do not have internet at the new house yet but are working hard to get everything back online. It is my hope that I can be 100% operational again before Master Feathers enters his own household move. Thank God for redundancy.
I have it on good authority that he has been actively filming content for Hapkido Online and I look forward to getting that posted for your training needs. Some of you are chomping at the bit to see the higher level training. I assure you we are filming and adding content just as quickly as our daily lives allow. For those of you who are already way above the level we have already uploaded you are encouraged to train primarily through the digital dojang. Trust me, this is the very best way to learn online anyway, no video can come close to live interraction. Hapkido Online is in many ways just like a traditional martial arts school. Students come and go. Some stay for a month and some sign on for a year. Many, many will decide that martial arts is not for them and move on. A choice few will make this a lifelong journey and become very much like family. We will travel our paths and watch it all unfold together Hapkido friends. V/r, Jon P.S. local students in spite of many sore household move muscles I intent to hold practice this week as normal. Hopefully we can do a quick review and then proceed on schedule from here on out. Master Feathers was kind enough to film most of the throws for high yellow. I have lightly edited these and uploaded them. Enjoy.
I appreciate all the work that he and his family is doing to make Hapkido Online great. V/r, Jon Added an entire page about Hapkido Sparring in green belt. Including the Falcon Parable. Enjoy!
Jon Hello Hapkido Friends,
This week Matthew and I re-filmed two yellow belt techniques, Figure 4 and Lifting Hammer Lock. It became obvious to me during a Digital Dojang session with Master Tim and David Henry that my existing video was a little outdated. Master Tim had refined those two techniques. So we went back and did them again in the new way and pronounced them good. Just to let you folks know, I intend to give you the very best training I can, sometimes that means taking a couple steps back before we can move forward. Very Respectfully, Jon Hello Hapkido Friends,
Just a quick update to let you know that I've recently added content to the site. We now have a Hapkido History page: http://www.hapkido-online.com/hapkido-history.html It's on the free side of the password so please share it with friends. I tried to paint an accurate portrayal with the few sources I could find, believe me not much solid evidence remains. I was able to find some very nice photo's and even the only known video clip of the closest thing we have to a founder Grand Master Choi Yong Sul. We hope to be adding further curriculum based content soon. Very Respectfully, Jon A great way to lean Hapkido is to start a club. It's impossible to learn
Hapkido alone, you may as well make it a group event. The neat thing about this is you have a willing group of uke's to work with. When a member makes it to black belt they can transition the club to a fully fledged Hapkido School and begin teaching their own students. The rules to your individual club are entirely up to you, it's your club. 1. Your club members do not necessarily have to be members of Hapkido Online or THA to practice Hapkido with you, however you can't test them for (Hapkido) Gup rank till you are at least a 1st Dan in Hapkido. 2. If you have club members that want to gain rank in Hapkido they will be have to be reviewed and tested by me or another one of the teachers at Hapkido Online such as Master Feathers (in the Digital Dojang). Of course any THA instructor can promote your club members as well (if your club members are members of THA). 3. In other words in order to be promoted, people have to join. Once they join they are exactly like any Hapkido Online member in that they are members and can train and test through Hapkido Online. In a club environment you can all work together to learn the content, it's a heck of a lot of fun and creates a pool of uke's. 4. You can charge your own club fees outside of Hapkido Online to your club members if you desire, that is none of my business. 5. Once you attain first dan your Hapkido Club can then transition to a fully fledged Hapkido School. Then you are your own school entity and will interface directly with GM Rodemaker regarding your THA affiliate school status. At that point you won't be working through Hapkido Online much anymore, though we can always use member schools. 6. These rules only apply to Hapkido Online and not necessarily to the Tactical Hapkido Alliance. Your membership and member school status to THA is above me and resides with GM Rodemaker. Today we will review what we learned last week and additionally will start learning the Side Kick and it's variants.
Hopefully we will have a good turnout. Happy Practicing. Jon I debuted Hapkido Online just two short weeks ago and so far the response has been promising, not only from my own students but from the Martial Arts community. I will keep you updated as the site evolves.
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