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.
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