MARTIAL ARTS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

 

About Us

 

(Callum Forbes demonstrating the Hapkido Balance Points)
 

We are a family-focused martial arts school in the centre of Upper Hutt.

We offer a range of martial arts classes for children, teens and adults of all ages.

Our Academy culture is relaxed and friendly. Our mission is to help you and your family to achieve your own martial arts/self-defence goals and to realise your own potential.

We have a strong team of experienced Instructors - details of them can be found on our Instructors sub-page on the About Hapkido page. You will find that we offer much more than just martial arts and self-defence training and we would like you to join our family

So come along and try out an Orientation Class for you or your children and begin your own martial arts journey.

All of our classes are run at our modern, owner-occupied martial arts studio in the centre of Upper Hutt. Further information Here.

 

 

Our Core Classes

 
Hapkido for Adults and Teens
Hapkido is self-defence focused but training in Hapkido will also increase your physical abilities - stamina, strength, and flexibility - as well as your mental awareness and self-confidence. 
 
Further Information Here
 
Hapkido Tigers for Children aged 7 to 12
Hapkido Tigers is all about using Hapkido training to help your children develop into strong and confident adults. In addition to learning good self-defence skills, your child will also learn important life and leadership skills.
 
Further information Here.
 
Hapkido Dragons for Children aged 5 to 6
Hapkido Dragons program is for children aged from 5 to 6. The class focuses on fitness, and martial arts fundamentals. It serves as a primer for the more formal martial arts training in our Hapkido Tigers Class. 
 
Further information Here
 
Other Classes
We run several other classes that compliment Hapkido to allow you to go deeper into areas that are only covered lightly in the main Hapkido syllabus. These are "Ground Combatives", "Pressure Point Combatives" and "Principals of the Sword". Once you have attained the relevant grade requirement in Hapkido you may join any of these classes.
 
 

 

 
  

Academy Update October 2024 

 

late last month we hosted Grand Master Fari Salievski from KMA Champion Martial Arts (Sydney). This was Fari's 4th visit to our Academy. Along with Fari, we have a number of international instructors who visit our Academy on a regular basis.

This not only exposes us to new ideas, but it also keeps us from becoming too complacent. We are always evolving and and adapting so that our training remains modern and relevant, 

The first session that Fari ran was a grading for our Hapkido Ground Combatives / FS BJJ students. This grading saw our senior students grade to Blue Belt which is the first majort grade in this system. It concluded a 6 year journey for these students whose training had been disrupted by the events of recent years. They are now in a position to really grow this class and we will be accepting new students into it soon


(Grandmaster Fari with our senior Hapkido Ground Combatives Students)

Grandmaster Fari then ran classes for our Hapkido Tigers and Hapkido Dragons stuidents which was well attended and also gave us new ideas to try out in these classes to make them even better.


(Grandmaster Fari with some of our Tigers and Dragons students)

The main seminars of the weekend were the Hapkido, Hapkido Ground Combatives, Black Belt and School Leadership seminars. These were all well received and gave us all food for thought on how to make our Academy even better!


(Grandmaster Fari and the Hapkido Seminar attendees)

As with all our seminars, we extended an open invitiation to martial artists from other styles and it was great to have martial artists from Ju-Jitsu, Kick Boxing and Kempo Karate attending as well.

Upcoming Events

Saturday November 2nd - New Zealand Ju-Jitsu Federation National Annual Seminar (being hosted at our Academy) 

Late September 2025 - 2025 New Zealand Hapkido Festival and 4th Oceania Cup Friendship Tournament.   

 
   
 For further information please contact: callum@hapkido.co.nz

 

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