Hello Hapkido Friends, We have a tremendous seminar coming up April the 27th. It's in Martinsburg, WV. For those of you who train with me at Yorktown that's only about four hours down the road. I realize for you international guys it's pretty darn far but if you were planning on being in the Eastern US around that time it would be well worth your time. Attached is the flyer with all of the details. The seminar is being hosted by our very own Mr. David Henry. It will be a fun filled Saturday with Grand Master, Senior Master, and Master level instruction, often you will get personal instruction as they generally walk around and help people individually. Grand Master Rodemaker is a very dynamic teacher and speaker and is always a joy to learn from. I strongly urge you to attend, you won't regret it!
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Tonight I've uploaded the final video for Green Belt. I may re-shoot and fine tune here and there but the base footage is in place. I hereby dub Green Belt to be complete. On to High Green! Enjoy, Jon ![]() Yesterday I uploaded a better same side S-lock video. The video above it was seven months older. The instruction is better in the new one and after seven months of focused practice my technique is also better. (I originally learned this lock decades ago.) Since the latest video is so much better than the original I've decided to pull the old one. However before I pulled the old one I took a screenshot of the two video's. I would like to point out that I am 25 pounds lighter in the new video than the old one. Regular Hapkido practice and eliminating wheat and dairy from my diet completely for the last three months has been good for me. I am still losing weight and on track for my target weight of 185 pounds. This stuff works folks! I was thinking about eventually putting a little ornamental garden around my barn dojang just to give the place the right tone. One of the things that are common to a Japanese or Korean gardens is an ornamental pagoda.
I was concerned about the symbolism of the pagoda. Most of them are places of worship for Buddhists. As it turns out though my fears are unjustified. Pagoda's are places of worship but they are not unique to a particular religion. For example Taoism and Shinto also have Pagoda's Here is a Christian Pagoda: http://www.wmf.org/project/da-qin-christian-pagoda-and-monastery Christianity found its way into China during the 7th century. I've always thought Pagoda's were beautiful structures and now I have no fear of that feeling contradicting my faith. Green belt Interceptions added. These are a very pleasant exercise to practice. Enjoy yourself but have care, for it only takes a fraction of a seconds inattention to make for a bloody nose. Safety First.
Added tic tac toe approach to learning stance to yellow belt. Added Master Tim's thoughts on high yellow belt joint locks. It's a late night and as you can see both Master Feathers and myself have been burning the candle at both ends but I am pleased with the material. Bear in mind that everything you are seeing in the training section is Beta edition. As Hapkido Online progresses we will occasionally revisit older video's and improve them. I hope to get material from some of you out there. It's best to try to keep making progress. Hello Hapkido Friends,
We've had a couple of small setbacks and it has slowed progress. #1, I accidentally broke our video camera. Never fear, a new camera is on the way and it is really needed for the Green Belt videos! #2, I still do not have reliable high speed internet at our new home. I was making headway on my savings goal to have Cox Cable trench in a new line for the house when the camera broke. I decided to spend part of our Hapkido Funds on the camera. I know that you have entrusted me with your membership money and belt fees and I am committed to using those resources to forward Hapkido Online and make it better than ever. In light of this I've found a lightly used camera that is suitable. No point paying retail for something that's going to travel about in my gym bag. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Master Tim Feathers for helping out with the Digital Dojang while I get my I.T. ducks in a row. I would like to cheer Mr. Thobias on his efforts to build the very first Hapkido Online Club in Brazil. Those of you stateside with clubs understand just how much of a commitment that is. We are all behind you Thobias and Good Luck! Of course, Mr. David Henry and John Straka have my sincere thanks as well for their efforts to grow and develop their own Hapkido Club in West Virginia. Your participation and hard work have filled me with pride. Grand Master Rodemaker personally expressed his approval for our Hapkido Online Clubs to me on the phone this week. He thinks it’s a novel concept and should be a great stepping stone for new THA Charter schools. I would like to express my gratitude to my own family who have decided to give me two hundred square feet of our barn to build my new Hapkido Online Dojang in. Thematically I plan to make it strongly resemble the website with warm redwood tones and parchment colors. Finishes will be simple and affordable and in keeping with the Korean ways of doing more with less. I look forward to practicing and filming Hapkido in a room that has the look and feel of a traditional Dojang. Aahhh Dreams.... But first I'll focus on the necessities of getting internet and adding content. Never fear. Though they may not be big changes I continue to build the website and make refinements. Some of you may notice the little things that I have done to make it that much better. I am steadfast in my goal of making Hapkido Online great and giving you the very best Hapkido instruction I can. Everybody have a blessed and safe Thanksgiving Holiday! V/r, Jon 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 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!
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