Grappling Standard

Once again you will find below a comparison of the World Hapkido Federation, Dr' Kimm's Hapkido, the HWA RANG DO and the KUK SOOL WON Breathing material . 

The 1st group of Grappling Techniques shared by 4 out of the four groups and these are coded Blue.
The 2nd group are  Techniques shared by 3 out of four  and these are coded Green.
The 3rd group are Techniques shared by 2 out of 4-- Violet.
The 4th group are for Techniques that are unique to only one out of the four. They are Auburn.

It is important to remember that there is a lot of redundancy in these curriculums so what I have done is accepted the first representation of a technique in its gross bio-mechanic. "Arm bar"-s are probably the single most represented and over-represented technique. It follows that the techniques are often repeated as clothing grabs, wrist grabs, two-handed-grabs and finally in response to striking or kicking. To keep things uniform most of the representations were observed to have been made in the earliest levels of each Hapkido art.

THEN there is the "small" matter of terminology. We are probably going to be working on terms for quite some time to come. As you can see most people have gotten around the importance of terms by simply using a numbering system. Unfortunately not everyone has placed the same importance on techniques in the same order so one person's "#2" could well be someone else's "#15". We definitely have our work cut out here. I have tried to use some common terms but found myself falling back on Japanese terms ("koto gaeshi") simply for convenience sake. To me this would be like describing Tennis in Baseball terms and whatever the connections between Japanese and Korean traditions I am looking for the Korean techniques and terms to stand on their own.

Lastly, I direct your attention to the number of KSW techniques down in the "single representation (violet) section. I mention these in particular as they bear a shocking resemblance to the hapkiyusool techniques taught by Dojunim Kim at the YONG SUL KWAN. The order is just a bit varied, though, overall even that is pretty close. I found some of the same material in Kimm's Hapkido but have to defer to the fact that Kimm is essentially a KSW person at heart if not always in practice. Just an intriguing artifact. I think if I get time I will pair-up the KSW techniques to their YSK counterparts just for curiosity sake and post it in case anyone is curious. It does not actually relate well to the other material as we are essentially functioning on the YU SOOL level with most of what we have here and I didn't want to start mixing levels. It would be real easy to get side tracked into discussing where "ki-ai" material stops and "ai-ki" material starts. See--- even there that Japanese terminology pops into the discussion. Thoughts on this last posting would be welcome.