* Hwa Rang Do® has extensive techniques dealing with the subject of Takedowns.
* Its strategy of combat is to incapacitate the opponent with one movement.
* However, Hwa Rang Do® also believes that there is more than one way of doing things, as it states in the theory of Um/Yang. Therefore, it offers unlimited options for every possible situation one may encounter in combat.
* It addresses the three different stages of fighting: Stage I - Standing with distance, Stage II - Standing in-close, and Stage III - On the ground.
* Joint-Manipulation is not often seen as a takedown technique, but in Hwa Rang Do® , with its extensive knowledge of joints and the human anatomy for both injuring and healing, they are able to effectively apply joint locks to take the opponent to the ground.
* In this DVD, Grandmaster Taejoon Lee who holds a 8th Degree Black Sash in Hwa Rang Do® with more than 40 years experience in the martial arts, instructs on some of the strategies and tactics of executing and effectively applying the Joint Manipulation Takedowns.
* Please check back for additional videos dealing with this subject as well as our Go Too Gi (which means fighting to the end or submission fighting) Series.
* Length: 50 minutes

See what the Contributing Editor to Black Belt Magazine had to say about this series:

Taejoon Lee, elder son of Hwa Rang Do founder Dr. Joo Bang Lee, has come out with his own series of instructional videos on one of Hwa Rang Do's strongest grappling skills, joint manipulation. Unlike the typical Korean martial arts video that's packed full of demonstrated techniques but scarce on actual instruction, Lee's four part series on joint manipulation (including locks, throws, pins, and transitions) is well thought out and expertly explained, teaching a few techniques in real detail and showing a few variations of the same techniques. He demonstrates the moves himself, and then shows two advanced students performing the same technique while he gives corrections. If you've got a background in Hwa Rang Do, Hapkido, Kuk Sool, Aikido, or Jiu-Jitsu, this is a ''must have'' series for your video library. Each tape also features an interview with Dr. Joo Bang Lee on the concepts of Hwa Rang Do as well as clips of Hwa Rang Do training in Korea prior to its advent in the US.
Mark Cheng, O.M.D., Contributing Editor Black Belt Magazine

About Mark Cheng:
L.Ac., is a Chinese medicine physician and martial arts researcher based in Los Angeles, California. He also began his foray into martial arts with his father, later continuing to study martial arts with some of the most outstanding masters of Chinese martial arts and medicine. During his undergraduate years as an East Asian Studies major, Cheng became fascinated with Korean culture, studying the language and culture of this close neighbor to China.
Mark Cheng serves as contributing editor to Black Belt Magazine, authoring his monthly Legends of Kung-Fu column in addition to regular articles on a wide range of traditional martial arts. Still deeply devoted to the Chinese martial arts, Cheng continues his studies as a student and Los Angeles representative of Master David C. K. Lin in the Combat Shuai-Chiao system. He also practices Southern Sil Lum Kung-Fu and Yang style Tai-Chi and teaches on a very restricted basis. In addition to martial arts, Cheng teaches Chinese Tui-Na manual therapeutics at Los Angeles area Chinese medicine colleges, along with maintaining his own successful private clinical practice in Santa Monica, California.



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