International
Sin Moo Hapkido seminar 2008, Belgium.
April/May 2008
The Belgian-Dutch
Sin Moo Hapkido and its members get more and more excited.
For the 4th time already, they invited DojuNim
Ji, Han-Jae in Belgium.
DojuNim Ji, Han-Jae is the founder of the world known Sin Moo Hapkido
system and generally recognized and accepted as the person who invented
the Korean Hapkido.
International participants from the USA, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary,
Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Mauretania and even Somalia were
expected.
Thanks to the great commitment of a group of members from the School
of Rekem and with special thanks to Mr. Willy Calba, the essential
funds were collected to be able to arrange the seminar.
By this we would thank everybody once more, as we would also like
to thank our sponsors once more.
Wednesday
30th of May 2008.
The
start shot of a splendid Sin Moo Hapkido Seminar was given by Master
Sean Bradley, 6th Dan, USA.
A two hour taking private training is a first shot in the rose.
All attendants are positive about the interesting exercises and
fun on the mats.
Master Bradley gives him selves from his best side. People trained
intense and hard, the head is off.
During the training, DojuNim Ji, Han-Jae
and his wife
Lisa arrives in Rekem and is welcomed
by Marleen Willems, wife of GM Rony Dassen. She will take care of
the logistics of the whole organization the next few days.
And it may be told, she completed the job in an excellent way. Assisted
in this all by a private organization, Prolimo
b.i.o., managed
by Danny Vranken and Veerle Mertens, all guests were picked up and
returned from and to the airport. Also all the other displacements
of the guest were for the account of this firm. We would like to
thank this person once more too.
The same evening, after the training, everybody ate together at
home and conversations about birds and bees (and sometimes Hapkido)
filled the first evening.
DojuNim Ji, Han-Jae, Lisa and Sean Bradley, together with the Dassen
family, is it possible to have a more pleasant evening?
Thursday the
1st of May 2008
In the
early morning, conversations between Rony
Dassen, Steven Dassen, Sean Bradley and DojuNim Ji, Han-Jae about
SMH and here place in the world took place. This makes very
clear that DojuNim has a clear view on the future and the heritage
of his Martial art.
Grandmaster
Hank-Shik Shin
arrives in Belgium. The vice-president of the "World Sin Moo
Hapkido Association" arrives for the first time in Belgium
and is surprised about the good pick-up service and hospitality
in our family.
I had my selves already two times the opportunity to meet this interesting,
instructive and kind person in the USA, where we had some nice training-moments
together.
With his son in law too I spend some nice moments already.
At home, Sean and Steven enjoyed their time together, talking about
their visions and what was going on in Sin Moo Hapkido, but also
discussing University-life and so on.
Pretty soon it got clear that things clicked between those two young
guys.
Also DojuNim Ji, Han-Jae and Lisa enjoyed the hospitality of their
host Marleen Willems.
Friday 2nd of May 2008.
In the
afternoon, the first seminar day was planned for members from Belgium.
A big scale of techniques passed.
Everybody present at this day was convinced by DojuNim about the
efficiency of Sin Moo Hapkido.
Later that evening, the very youngest members of our association
got the chance to attend an extraordinary experience by training
with DojuNim.
The day was ended with a well deserved, self-prepared Korean supper
at the home of the family Dassen.
Looking back on a wonderful day everybody got to sleep.
Saturday and Sunday
3 & 4 May 2008.
In
the sports complex of the university of Liège / Luik we welcome
we a.o.
DoJunim Ji,
Han-Jae - 10° Dan - USA
Grandmaster
Hank-Shik Shin - 9° Dan - USA - vice-president World Sin Moo
Hapkido Association
Grandmaster Egil Fosslien - 9° Dan - USA
Grandmaster Jeurg Ziegler - 9° Dan - Zwitserland - Headmaster
for Europe & Switserland
Grandmaster Walter Hubman - 8° Dan - Oostenrijk - Headmaster
for Austria & Hungary
Headmaster Rafaël Balbastre - 7° Dan - Spanje - Headmaster
for Spain & Latin America
Headmaster Nicolas Tacchi - 7° Dan - France - Headmaster for
France, French Polynesia, French speaking Switzerland & Africa.
Master Sean Bradly - 6° Dan - USA
Master Rémi
Mollet - 6° Dan - France
Instuctor Miklos Hodosi - 4° Dan - Hungary, in charge for
Hungary
Assistant Ouls Ahmed Sidi - 2° Dan - Zwitserland, in charge
for Mauretanië
...
With the
assistance of several present Grandmasters en Master from all over
the world, DojuNim gave the best of him selves.
The whole scale of Kicking-techniques passed by, followed by an intense
study and explanation of the different techniques. Also for the higher
qualified among us, this were still some interesting moments.
This all was followed by a scale of hand-techniques, accomplished
with the latest details. This was another scene of eyebrow frowning
for some among us. Many had forgotten their finesse in some exercises
and interpreted them in their own way.
Therefore it is every time again a good experience to see a person
like DojuNim explaining all those exercises in detail again. Seminar
after seminar I'm stunned that he brings over all the details one
by one to everybody on the seminar again and again, no matter of it
is a seminar in the USA or anywhere else. Sometimes the numbering
changes a little, yet the techniques are still identical over the
last 10 or 12 years. Despite his progressed age (71), he surprises
us still with his power, efficiency and inventiveness. Nice to see
at all the local and foreign seminars.
With a high
tempo, all participants trained intensively during these two days?
Much to learn or the students and also nice to get an idea of what
there is still waiting in Sin Moo Hapkido for everybody.
At the end of the seminar, DojuNim held a rather surprising speech
in the presence of all Master and Grandmasters. Hereby he declared
very clearly that the future of Sin Moo Hapkido is up to the youth.
Citation
of DojuNim Ji, Han-Jae: "I
Promote Steven Dassen now as 6th Degree (Master), despite his youthful
age, because of his technical skills. At appropriate times I will
promote him to Grandmaster, so that he together with Sean Bradley
could follow me up in the future."
After a nice
closing-evening with a splendid dinner at Maastricht, the seminar
got closed.
In short: a nice and instructive event to everybody under a positive
minded environment of all participants.
Friendships were made or renewed. Sin Moo Hapkido showed there is
waiting a big and nice future.
Lasts me only to pronounce a special word of thanks to all participants
of this 2008 seminar in Belgium. Without your presence, we could not
have made such a nice event of it.
A special
word of thanks to DojuNim Ji, Han-Jae who promoted me to 9th Degree
Sin Moo Hapkido, under the approval of Vice-president GM Hank-Shik
Shin.
Rony
Dassen
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