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History of Hapkido Choi lost a piece of his luggage during his return home, which contained his money and the certificates which were proof of his training with Takeda Sensei. Bok-Sub Suh verifies that fact. Because of the lack of money, Choi decided to stay in Taegu rather than return to his home in Chung-Buk. After a year of working as a bread salesman on the street, Choi managed to save enough money to begin raising pigs. In order to feed his pigs, he would get up early every morning and travel to the Suh Brewery Company to obtain free rationed measure of leftover grain chaff. In 1947, Bok-Sub Suh, who was a black belt in Yudo (Judo) and the president of the Suh Brewery company, witnessed a fight from his second floor office window. He watched in amazement as a man defended himself against several attackers, with little effort. Suh was very impressed with, and curious about, what he had observed. He sent his office clerk to bring this man to his office. The man turned out to be Choi. Suh asked Choi what kind of martial arts he practiced. Without really answering the question, he asked Suh to grab him by the lapel. When Suh grabbed the lapel, Choi easily executed an elbow lock and threw Suh to the floor. Suh immediately grabbed Choi's lapel again, and was simply thrown to the floor a second time. After being defeated twice, Suh begged for Choi to teach him, promising him more free chaff, as well as payment for lessons. When Choi agreed, Suh prepared a dojang at the brewery where Choi then had the opportunity to teach what he had studied for so many years in Japan. It was during the next few years that Choi would begin to establish himself as an outstanding and well-respected martial arts instructor. He called his art Hapki Yoo Sool (Korean pronunciation of Aiki ju-jutsu). He was teaching exactly what he had learned from Takeda Sensei. He did, however, slowly begin to add kicks. You must understand how the enemy attacks in order to defend against them. In 1954, Bok-Sub Suh was involved in an incident where he had to defend his father, Dong-Jin Suh, who was up for election to the National Assembly. A fight ensued against a few gangsters, and using kicks learned through his training in Yoo Sool, Suh defeated the gangsters. After some thought, Suh decided to suggest to Choi that the name Yoo Sool be changed to Yoo Kwon Sool, to represent the fact that besides joint locks and throwing techniques, they were also practicing strikes and kicks. After the end of the Korean War while Choi was still teaching Bok-Sub Suh, he opened his own private school at his house and began to teach a few other students. This was in 1953. Some of the students during this period had already founded, or have gone on to found their own martial art styles. They include, In-Hyuk Suh (Kuk Sool Won), Dr. Joo-Bang Lee (Hwa Rang Do), Bong-Soo Han (Hapkido), and Han-Jae Ji (Hapkido).
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