Practical martial arts and self-defense training is pretty great. I’ve learned to be super-wary of martial arts, though, given that repetitive training environments are super-ripe for the distillation of religiose nonsense. That’s not to say religions are useless but rather that their claimed benefits are different than their actual (and usually unexamined) benefits.
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The reason you see the hapkido being done so well by the old guy is that the movements are really quite contained in his “center.” He really isn’t moving that much, at least not in the way that you’d pull a muscle or tear an ACL or hamstring. I took a very traditional Aikido class for a couple years and we noticed the sensei never stretched. We asked him about this and he just shrugged like “What for? I stay within my center, and that’s it.”
Ah, the “spelling & grammar” police nabbed me again…
PS. Thank you for doing it in a respectful “manner”, Ha Ha Ha.
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