Hapkido and my little ones.

Since I began taking Hapkido my little girls have been seeing me do the things that Hapkido practitioners do - kicks, punches, joint locks, throws, etc. Stacey has even volunteered to be the one I get to practice the locks on - she's a trooper! An aside here - I NEVER lock her hard!

Now my girls ask lots of questions about it and I have even shown them some stuff. I let them practice on me and they're not bad. It's exciting for me to see them do this. The other day I was loaned some videos pertaining to the style of Hapkido I take, Jin Jung Kwan, and we all watched them. One of the videos shows a big tournament that took place in Korea in 2003 that had adults as well as little people participating. The girls thought this was wonderful. After watching a little of this Mackenzie decided to draw a picture that had little kids doing Hapkido. Not only that she has drawn in the belt progression - white belt all the way to 10th Dan (10th degree black belt). I thought it was so cool that I asked her if I could add it here and she said I could. This makes me smile every time I look at it.