Hapkido is Korean Aiki-jujutsu; when it came to Korea it was called Hapki Yusool. In other words, Hapkido is Japanese Jujutsu that went to Korea. Unlike other forms of jujutsu, however, it maintains a full corpus of techniques and does not limit jujutsu to groundfighting only. This makes it favored often by law enforcement and security professionals. We try to limit exposure on the ground, yet we still need to grapple and submit. Here's one submission without groundfighting that we do from a com

Aiki-jujutsu was once something that one was only allowed to train once one already had a jujutsu black belt. Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo (which is what BJJ comes from), regarded Aiki-jujutsu as superior to his own jujutsu, and sent his top students to be trained by Takeda Sokaku, Aiki-jujutsu's head. He was embarrassed when Takeda found his students lacking, and famously explained that judo was really just a "budo of sports." It's extremely difficult. Those who say it's not for practical s