#hapkido

[louisa-malchance]

Etude n-34, dessin ,50x65cm

[user-thirt3en]

Kengan OC: Seth Tu'er Shen 🐇

Yōkai (my og oc) has a very dark past that he doesn't like to talk about. One regret from that previous life was a man named Seth Tu'er Shen; a fellow martial artist and ex-husband. Although the two have been divorced for five years, he still longs for the day that he can belong to Yōkai once again.

Tags: mentions of blood, fighting, and unhealthy marriage dynamics.

🩸Name: Seth Tu'er Shen

🩸Nickname: the Red Rabbit

🩸Age: 30

🩸Gender: male

🩸Ethnicity: Chinese-American

🩸Appearance: 6'4, 220 pounds, long red hair often braided in a high fishtail with two strands of white flowing past his chin, tan skin with a few moles along his jaw, soft black, puffy eyes, symmetrical, almost feminine features, and often wears traditional hanfu in red & gold.

🩸Personality: a gentle, caring soul who gets along with nearly everyone. His aura is extremely attractive, which brings many people to his side for advice or a friend to talk to. However, he has an intense obsession with his ex-husband and will harm his current lovers.

🩸Loves: gardens, any noodle dish, martial arts training, the fetish community, queer culture, his hapkido students, the Robinson family, milk tea, painting, giving gifts to those he loves, Yōkai Hakashita, & romantic novels.

🩸Hates: arrogance, meat, alcohol, and anyone who tries to lay a violent or suggestive hand on Yōkai. Other than that, very little bothers him.

🩸History: born in the US to an American mom and a Chinese father, Seth was often bullied for his appearance. To boost his self-esteem, his father put him into martial arts, and eventually, it became his passion and livelihood. However, after coming out to his family, he was rejected and sent away in disgrace. While living in China for a few years, he eventually met Yōkai Hakashita at a fetish bar. They hit it off fast, marrying a year after, yet the relationship became toxic and wa sswiftuflly ended. Now, he teaches martial arts at his own dojo in Tokyo, Japan, and still longs for Yōkai's return.

Fun Facts

🩸He is trained in hapkido and judo and educates young queer fighters in self-defense at The Red Rabbit. Ever since Seth was bullied for being the odd one out in his school, he's made it his mission to protect LGBT+ children and teens.

🩸He's a raw vegan and doesn't support the consumption of animal products. After his father told him about his work in animal testing, he swore he'd never eat another piece of meat again, and he's kept that promise for 10 years.

🩸He owns a serval cat named Oasis, who follows him everywhere. She's a friendly pet who interacts well with others, but if Seth doesn't like someone, nor does she.

🩸Seth has an extreme imprisonment and exhibitionism fetish that ruined he and Yōkai's marriage. He never wanted the sex slave and master dynamics to end, even for a dah of rest, so Yōkai left in hopes that Seth would fix himself. He didn't.

🩸The only person he genuinely hates is Kanoh Agito. Seeing his ex-lover involved with anyone but him is unacceptable. Seth would kill Agito if given the chance, yet he refuses to lose Yōkai to his impulsivity.

[shyflames]

Andy is HIM

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[tenofsticks]

A Martial Arts Parable about Wicca

I used to do Martial Arts, Hapkido specifically. The purported story was that the origins of Hapkido is in the ancient Hwarang warriors and that it was secretly preserved during the modern Japanese occupation of Korea during a time of persecution.

But the truth is, it was created during the time of the occupation as a fusion of Korean and Japanese martial arts with an fusion of American boxing, and it is in fact modern. It also contains mystical and philosophical concepts from all of the above. The lineage of Hapkido itself is rife with infighting and women were not allowed to practice.

I'm sure you can find some parallels there with what's known about Wicca.

My instructor taught me about the false and true history. His instructor was a person of color, our class was 80% women. Many Hapkido branches had added Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves and other developments since the art's original creation. In fact Hapkido was very adaptable to change to keep up with the needs of modern self-defense and practice because it was so modern, and plastic. See, when forming, the founder was able to use the benefit of history to build a core Philosophy of the art that was quite strong and adaptable.

The funny thing is, if you observe and practice enough arts, you will find so many more similarities than differences. That's because ultimately a Martial Art fills a need, the need has specific requirements in defense and offense: The human mind, the human body, and the culture. Most practices that aren't demonstrative historical artifacts will converge on these targets. Neo-paganism is the same, but the needs are Spiritual and not physically Martial. ALL of Neo-Paganism has the same challenges with false narratives, bad actors, foundations in ye old times of crusty bull crap, some more crusty than others, but their utility and value remain as live and adapting practices. If you belong to any kind of Neo-Pagan tradition, or any religion at all, that doesn't have these challenges, it's probably because it's very young.

[kendraw]

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[philconnorz]

Do you practice Martial Arts of any kind?

Yes

No

No, but I used to

No, but I would like to

Yes, I teach it

Some other answer (say in tags)

Voting ended onMar 22, 2024

Rb for a bigger sample size!

If you answered yes feel free to say which type of Martial Arts you do!

[luckydragon10]

How Porsche disarmed Big...

...and almost got away with it.

Some great discourse got me revved up about the fight choreography so far in KinnPorsche, so guess what? META TIME.

We know Porsche is a Taekwondo champion, though from what has been shown so far, he's generally NOT leading with his Taekwondo skills but rather with his street fighting skills. I say this as someone who has practiced Taekwondo. It's there, and I can see it in certain moments, but it's like it's buried in boxing and brawling moves.

I saw one especially big exception. Or should I say, exception for Big? (Haha. Get it?)

Credit and thank you to @moerusai for those sweet gif skills!

This is gorgeous. Just gorgeous. I've gushed to my KP friends about this, and now I'll just gush to Tumblr at large.

It's basically Hapkido, a self-defense art. The focus is on neutralization through a series of short, skillful movements. It is not offensive. It's a Korean martial art, like Taekwondo. I learned a set of Hapkido movements right along with Taekwondo when I practiced, and it would be completely normal for Porsche to also have learned as part of his practice.

So, what the heck just happened?

1. Block

Porsche first blocks with his left hand and grabs Big's wrist. Grabbing the wrist here is essential rather than just knocking it out of the way. None of the rest of his actions would have worked if he'd simply knocked the hand away.

2. Redirect Opponent

Think Porsche tried to punch Big here? Nope, not in the slightest.

See how far off the punch is? That's not because the actors were playing it safe... that's because Porsche isn't trying to hit Big. Porsche is separating his opponent from his weapon. While punching, Porsche maintains control over Big's right wrist.

Big is now on the defensive, and (critically) Porsche is interfering with Big's line of sight to his own weapon.

3. Step In

Porsche steps inside Big's guard, curling Big's right arm around himself.

Look at Porsche's eyes. What's he looking at? THE GUN. His focus is on the gun. Good job, Porsche, A+.

4. Disarm

Looking a bit risky here to me (if Big still had his finger on the trigger, this could be Bad), but fortunately Porsche already has almost complete control of the gun as well as leverage to pry it away (his left and right hands in a great position for prying), and Big has no line of sight to what's happening with the weapon.

Note that Porsche's right hand grabs the barrel of the gun from above. This would allow him to rotate the gun upwards, putting pressure along the weakest gripping fingers first (pinky and ring fingers) if Big still had a grip, which he doesn't.

Thus, Porsche does some thievery. Good job again, Porsche!

5. Escape

Porsche breaks away. Big is annoyed to say the least.

6. Where are you kicking, Big?

O.O!

7. Surrender

It was a good run for 3 whole seconds, Porsche, but ultimately you're still screwed. Big has a second gun and lots of backup, and not even you can disarm numerous men from a prone position.

~~~

In conclusion, I really fucking love the fight choreography so far. I would love to see Porsche evolve over the course of the season and maybe see more of his Taekwondo start to shine through the brawler moves.

(If you like this KP meta, check out my breakdowns for Lines of Power.)

[reticentshugyosha]

On the Spirituality of Martial Arts

The spirituality of martial arts (Budo) is not an obvious thing. No amount of outfits, other accoutrement, or religiously adjacent cultural customs can elucidate (let alone comprise) the actual heart of training.

Contemporary definitions define spirituality as that which concerns “the nonphysical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character,” with etymology uncovering the nature of spirit as “breath,” that essential yet often overlooked exchange of life giving gasses between our environment and innermost being.

In East Asia, the etymology of the word spirit (神) pertains to lightening, and the seemingly spontaneous manifestation of raw, overwhelming power in nature. The ancients saw lightening as coming strictly from the sky. Contemporarily we understand the visible force of lightening to come from the ground up. In reality, it’s both.

Budo is simultaneously an outwardly recognizable physical discipline and more subtly internal set of commitments and challenges. It is something learned from the outside in, but truly manifest only from the inside out. This meeting place between interior and exterior, between mental and physical is where the spirituality of martial arts abides.

Beginning with the common grappling between bodily compliance with the obscure physical demands of the arts (and the competition for attention and motivation with myriad other forces vying for our time) the spiritual path of Budo has its genesis as mere discipline, and its truest revelation in the spontaneous inseparability between technique and the dispositions, commitments, and activities of everyday life.

Budo is a pursuit that comes to occupy and possess one’s mind as much as one’s mind, when peeled back to its essence, comes to occupy and define Budo. In this, Budo is not simply a practice of combat or military tactics, but rather an orientation toward life that elicits awareness, acceptance, and harmonious accord with reality as it is. For this reason, aphorisms such as “Ken Zen Ichi Nyo” (拳禪一如) have come into being - “the fist and Zen are one.”

Conflict and peace are in constant relationship, seemingly a dichotomy until their dynamic tension is realized as a fundamental unitary nature. Life and death, and indeed all supposed opposites are also like this. Budo is a ground of intentionality where this fundamental unitary nature can be perceived and proactively engaged, with conscious attention and agency. What could be more spiritual, lest we confuse the constructs of belief and creed with true matters of spirit?

(Pictures from 15+ years ago, 10+ years ago, and 1+ year ago)

~Sunyananda