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2005 North Austin Tae Kwon Do Hapkido Seminar
featuring Grand Master JR West
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Filmed at the North Austin Tae Kwon Do 2005 Hapkido Seminar featuring
JR West, in Austin Texas. This DVD contains instructional material on a
variety of Hapkido Techniques with specific emphasis on choking
techniques, joint locks and take downs. Additionally, this video has a
special one on one session with Master West as he demonstrates the first
set of Cho-Geup Sul, Joint Lock Techniques in his system where you can
see the techniques executed from start to finish with no interruptions.
Grand Master West is 8th Degree Black Belt (Dae Han KidoHae Certificate
#186) and President of the United States Korean Martial Arts Federation
(USKMAF). Upon his last trip to Korea, Master West received an award
from the President of Korea for his contribution to the Korean Martial
Arts.
You can see letters of reference for Master West from Dr. He Yong Kimm,
the founder of Han Mu Do, the FBI and the US Army as well as more
information about Master West, the USKMAF and his semi-annual martial
arts seminars held in Jackson, MS at www.hapkido.com.
Title #207282
Running time: 49 minutes
Format: DVD-R (about
DVD-R compatibility...)
The following is a review by Erik Mann,
noted Martial Arts DVD critic: 4.5 Star Review!
Company: North Austin Media
Tape Name: 2005 JR West Hapkido Seminar
Tape Cost: $39.95
Length of Tape/Time: 49 minutes
Number of Moves/Techniques: 50 or more
Return Policy: ?
Instructor: JR West
Company Address: 291 Highway 51, Ridgeland, MS, 39157
Company Phone Number: 601-856-8487
Web Page: Custom
Flix
E-Mail: JRWest@hapkido.com
Primary Grading Criteria:
1. Production Quality: 90
2. Instructors demonstrated skill level: 90
3. Comprehension Score/Immediate Understanding: 90
4. Degree to which this will make someone a better Martial Artist: 90
5. Score on Delivery Vs Hype: 90
6. Degree to which you would recommend this product: 90
7. Wasted time (The Higher the number, the less “Fluff “/repetition):90
8. Playback score/watching it over and over again: 90
9. Would I purchase more of this company’s products: 90
10. Overall grade based on cost vs. value: 90
Grand Total: 90% (Very Good =
 )
Secondary Grading Criteria:
1. Beginners benefit: Very Good
2. Intermediate benefit: Very Good
3. Advanced benefit: Very Good
4. Time to benefit: Immediate
5. The need to buy additional tapes to understand this one: None
Written Summary:
I got home after work, and like often
happens, there was a package waiting for me. Packages at home have
become a common occurence...lol. USPS knows me, so does UPS, FedEx, etc.
So I opened it up and of course saw it was another video to review. In
fact, one I'd never asked for, and from someone I'd never heard of (JR
West). Hey, there are probably 10,000+ martial arts instructors in the
US, so who could know them all? I was just about to put this one in my
pile of stuff to review (huge pile), but at the last second didn't, and
said to myself "Its been a long day and I don't feel like having the
pressure or obligation of reviewing anything just walking in the door,
but lets use this one too unwind, and just take a quick peek at it".
Well, guess what that ultimately led too? Bottomline, once I started
this dvd I couldn't stop watching it, and as a result here we have a
review. ;-) It was like watching a non-stop action move, that within the
first minute has you hooked, and you're not going anywhere! Normally
doing a review out-of-order like this wouldn 't happen, because I try to
review everything on a first-in-first-out (FIFO) review type basis. Thus
my "pile" of videos. So what started out as "watching it for grins to
unwind" turned out a little over 50 minutes later into sitting down and
typing this one up.
This dvd of Hapkido 8th Dan
JR West's focuses on
joint locks (about 80% I'd say), chokes (maybe 10%), takedowns (maybe
5%), and showed a couple of Pressure Point type Knockouts (5%). It was
filmed seminar style, and I must say well produced and well edited!
There may have been well over 50 techniques shown, but lets call it 50
so as not to disappoint anyone.
Watching this dvd went unbelivably fast.
50 minutes literally flew by like it was 5 minutes. That's usually a
good sign, regarding my perspective of not watching the clock or getting
bored. I would say no more than 30 seconds to 1 minute was spent on each
technnique, and then its on to the next one. Again, whoever edited this
seminar down to just "the meat" of it did an excellent job from a
production standpoint!
It ends up being a smorgashboard of
techniques. I saw some new ways to get some positioning for wrist and
elbow locks, and I'm always pleasantly surprised when that happens.
There were a couple of joint locks that I personally might not use in
the street, yet good for show, due to a little too much
twisting-and-turning and this-then-that for my taste. But all-in-all
this was a very surprising and "Very Good" dvd!
Mr. West, I'm calling it a 4.5 Star
video, and with that I say "Well done". It has a fair price as compared
to the 50+ techniques, it was quick paced (30 sec to 1 min per
technique), well edited, had some hand positioning I hadn't seen before,
and it kept me glued to the screen when I really wasn't "in the mood" to
watch a video for review purposes right after work! And the final thing
that in my mind gave it 4.5 Stars in my assessment, its a video that
won't be collecting too much dust on my shelf, as I picture myself
watching it many more times!
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