Product Details

• Actors: Lee Chang-soo, Sang H. Kim
• Directors: Lee Chang-soo, Sang H. Kim
• Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Studio: Turtle Press,U.S.
• VHS Release Date: September 14, 2000
• Run Time: 42 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1880336553
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #606,199 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Hapkido is a complete system of armed and unarmed self-defence. In Volume One, Grandmaster Lee Chang-soo, head coach of the demonstration team for the World Hapkido Federation in Seoul, and his demonstration team members demonstrate the essentials of hapkido including: Sonmok Hoshinsool - wrist locks; Bankwonsool - defence against punching; Bangjoksool - defense against kicking; Danjangsoo - cane techniques; Kwonchongsool - defence against guns; Danbongsool - short stick technique; Kakmoksool - club technique; Yusung Hoshinsool - women self-defense; Bangkumsool - defense against knife; Nakbup - falling techniques.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, quick introduction, July 15, 2002

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This review is from: Hapkido Volume One [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The video is well made, with various demonstrations. However, the techniques are definately intermediate level, and it breezes through quite quickly. Overall, it does a good job of showing what one can learn in hapkido, but one should not expect to learn much from it.

2.0 out of 5 stars Hapkido Vol.1 Disappoints, February 20, 2004

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Toronto_Matt (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hapkido Volume One [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video produced by the Korea Hapkido Federation brought back memories of my own training in dojangs looking identical to this one while I was in Seoul.

Unfortunately other than nostalgia this video has little to offer other than acrobatic demonstrations of what should be very practical techniques.

The agility and the abilities of the practitioners are not in question, however this video does not really seem to know what it wants to be. It is not in any way instructional. It does not show realistic execution or reaction to the techniques shown. This demostration, like many I saw while living in Korea, seems to confuse acting and acrobatics with martial arts.This is really a shame as these practitioners are, I'm sure, really talented and could illustrate real hapkido if allowed to do so.

A real missed opportunity on the part of the KHF.

I would recommend Ultimate Hapkido in its stead.