Upper Hutt Hapkido Academy
Teaching and Promoting Traditional Hapkido

Our Mission:

To be the leading provider of effective self-defence and training in the Greater Wellington Region.

Hapkido is focused on helping its students develop effective self defence skills while also gaining from the various benefits that traditional martial arts self defence training offers.

Hapkido self defence can be learnt by anybody in reasonable physical condition aged from about 12 onwards (although we do not award 1st degree black belts to anybody under 15.) Hapkido is a Korean martial art of self-defence descending from Daito-Ryu Aiki JuJitsu. More »

We welcome new members from those interested in personal self defence and beginners through to experienced martial artists.

As well as Hapkido self defence, we offer

  • Children's self-defence Martial Arts
  • Specialist Courses (including self defence for the general public and self defence tailored for specific occupational groups.)
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Our self defence classes are run from a modern well-equipped academy in Upper Hutt.
For further details, check the Membership page.


We are also a member club of the World Kido Federation and Hanminjok Hapkido Association.

The World Kido Federation is one of the most renowned and respected Korean self defence Martial Arts organisations in the world and the Hanminjok Hapkido Association is the largest Hapkido organisation in the world with over 550 member clubs.

We are also a member of Fitness New Zealand – the Industry Body for the New Zealand Fitness Industry.
This helps us to ensure that our self defence training methods are always effective, safe and up-to-date.


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Contact Us:

Callum Forbes

021 330 989

Training Videos

The Academy now has a "You Tube" channel for presenting training videos. You can view the latest training video here »  
 
New Videos Posted - 20th January 2012. 
 

Update: May 2012

Changes to the Saturday Class

Due to a clash with Winter sports we have recently seen a drop-off in the numbers attending the Saturday morning "open" class. We have decided to put this class on hold until Spring arrives and the numbers increase.

We will instead run another junior class from 9.15 AM to 10 AM on Saturday as the class is still being well supported by the juniors.

The medieval sword fighting and combat class run in association with the Order of the Boar will start an hour earlier at 10 AM and finish at 12 PM.

New Classes

We are looking at introducing a couple of new weekday classes:

Intermediate Hapkido- This will serve as a transitional class for students aged 10 - 14 who want to progress to the Adult Hapkido classes. We have found that for many of the junior students who have moved into the Adult classes that this is a huge step and the new class will help transition them into the Adult classes more effectively. This class will run as per a normal Adult Hapkido class but for 45 - 60 minutes as opposed to the stand hour and a half Adult class. We are looking at introducing this class on Thursdays from 5 PM in place of the current Junior class as mst of the sudents in this class are in this age group and eager to take on a greater challenge. Members will be able to do Adult Hapkido gradings as part of this class.

Self-Defence- I have had some interest from the parents of some of the junior members and partners/family of the adult members to run a self-defence class. I have the capacity to run a self-defence class on most Wednesday afternoons or mornings and can schedule a class after people drop off children or before they leave to pick up students from school. The class will run for 45 - 60 minutes and cost $10 per class. However the usual 50% discount for people who have family members already enrolled in one of our classes will apply.

I need a minimum of 10 people to make this class work and also your preferred time so please contact callum@hapkido.co.nz for further information about either of the new classes

 
The Upper Hutt Hapkido Academy would like to thank the following sponsors for their support:

The Order of the Boar
This is the worlds most spectacular full-contact sport - no holds barred.

The Order of the Boar is New Zealands first and foremost medieval equestrian and jousting historical re-enactment group.

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