Tigershark Hapkido Workout Video Now Available!

Recently Grandmaster John Dowdy completed his  first video in the American Martial Artist Tigershark Hapkido Series. This is a double workout video with each component workout  being about 54 minutes long (all on one disc.) The workouts are designed to help develop physical stamina, coordination, balance, focus, speed, power, agility, and the use of combinations. This is the first in our series...

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Sparring:Part 2:No-Contact Sparring

When learning the art of  sparring or free-fighting, it is important for students to spar at least once with no contact or mere touch contact. Some styles never spar or  have contact; however, I believe that sparring is a useful training tool for our style of martial arts. No-contact sparring has both its advantages and disadvantages.  the main asset  is that it teaches control- the control...

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