Definition of Hapkido
History
Age and Hapkido
Ten Guidelines of Hapkido
Age and Hapkido
If one wants to keep his youth and health in old age, he should take an exercise.

Moderate enhancement of flexibility and muscle powers through regular exercise can make one lead active
life even in his old age.
Lack of exercise narrows the moveable scope of joints, and brings one to avoid any demanding work,
while giving rise to the vicious cycle of lessening a physical movement more and more.
Adult can maintain physical youth and mind by talking a proper exercise.
physical elements required for adults are flexibility and endurance.
Hapkido is a suitable sports to cultivate one`s flexibility and endurance.
As Hapkido puts much emphasis on the exercise of rotation movement,
it helps equally not only control but also strengthen flexibility and elasticity of left and right
muscles, while keeping the main prop of body, or backbone in a good shape as well.

Requiring many times of rotation of arms, it not only maximizes the flexibility of joint of shoulder,
but also strengthens effectively the function of
lung and heart(endurance).
And it is good for the prevention of Ohsipgyeon(shoulder pain), occurring frequently at an old age,
and for the maintenance of vitality of health as well as for the smooth creation of blood circulation
and autonomic nerve system by giving a appropriate simulation and exercise of movable scope th each joint.

Children and hapkido
As technique of Hapkido is not the training for only a person but for people to people,
training can not be practically performed without the harmony with and consideration for others.
Also it demands endurance, requiring steady and repeated training.
Thus, Hapkido is the living martial art to help children, who will take a lead in the 21st C,
learn the etiquette of loving others and the spirit of harmony to live with others.