Weapons in Hapkido

[hurricane_jim]

I know they sometimes use weapons in Hapkido
long staff, nunchuk, Kali Stick, and the sword are some that are used, are there any others?

[karatechop]

They are the main ones but there are many variations of those weapons.

Look at some photos here:
http://www.hapkido.it/hapweapons.htm

Good stuff!

[gina100]

Thank you for posting this information. I have always been interested in the martial arts that use weapons. I have mainly studied karate and have not had a chance to try anything else.

[softie]

Hapkido teaches most traditional weapons, as well as imporvised weapons, at least at my school anyways. The theaory is that whatever it is, we may not know what it was intended for but we'll be able to use it as a weapon. My teacher showed us some techniques on killing people with a coin. oh and fighting with a non-folding chair. kind of odd, that one...