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Old 11-06-2000, 01:53 PM   #21
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Re: Earliest Hollywood Aikido.

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scubaman57 wrote:
One of the earliest Aikido demos in an American Produced commercial movie was in the Return of Billy Jack. Billy Jack did TKD but there was an Aikidoist in it also. Back then it was cutting edge ideology
Av\ctually billy jack practiced a korean art called hapkido. Master Bong Soo Han was the guy who actuall did the martial arts in Billy Jack. It may look like aikido because the founder of Hapkido was a student of Sokaku Takeda, andso there areobviously manyr principles and techniques shared between Aikido\and Hapkido. The Chinese characters for both arts are even the same.
For more info on hapkido check out http://www.geocities.com/songs_hkd/i...nghapkido.html
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