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Hapkido Performance Principles:
Flow: Smooth movements like flowing water develops significant linear momentum. And a body in motion tends to remain in motion unless acted upon by an opposing force.
Circular Motion: Circular motion develops powerful angular momentum like a rock spinning on a string.
Harmony: Harmonizing in proportion to opponents movements while redirecting opponents motion against him. The opponents momentum and your momentum are combined and used to your advantage.
Hapkido Specific Techniques:
Ki-finger techniques: The index finger is fully extended to tension one's arm while one grabs with the three finger eagle claw. This is the so-called scissor-hand exhibited on the Korea Hapkido Federation emblem. This very important technique not only brings so-called ki energy (presumably electro-chemical via blood supply and the nervous system) to the arm, but also makes more effective use of the three remaining fingers of the hand. This grip is very much more difficult to break than gripping with the whole hand. The extended index finger makes the arm much more rigid by tensioning the supporting muscles, (which are themselves bundles of fibres which contract and expand to produce movement), giving a guy wire supporting effect, thus making evasion quite difficult.
Fully open hand: This is the so-called "live-hand" technique where one spreads all the fingers of the hand as wide as possible to tension the arm in a guy wire supporting like effect as used in the Ki-finger technique, and to bring more ki energy to the arm. This is the technique we use in the Moohakkwan Style in arm and leg locking techniques, as well as in our elbow strike techniques.
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