The meeting was attended by: Grandmaster Juerg Ziegler - ESMHA president 9 dan hapkido, 9 lakan Kombatan, Walter Hubman - representative in Austria and Hungary 8 dan hapkido, 7 dan Kombatan, Nicolas Tachi - representative in France, French-speaking part of Swisszerland and North Africa 7 dan hapkido, Rami Vainionpaa - representative for Scandinavia 7 dan hapkido, 4 lakan Kombatan, Herman Mochalin - representative in Eastern Europe 6 Dan hapkido and 2 lakan Kombatan. It's a pity that not all members of the Technical Committee could attend this meeting.
Program for the 3 days was filled with trainings, discussoins, excursions etc.During the meeting were discussed questions connected with ESMHA activity and regional organizations: standarts for promotion programm, uniform, ESMHA logo, ESMHA flag, common Black Belts card and common certificate for the representatives in regions, as well as politics of their usement. A lot of time was devoted to the questions of representative working, coopertions between themselves and terms of their notification.
During the training we had a big exchange expirience abouut the techniques and metodics, the way of getting the necessary expirience and promotion system in hapkido and kombatan. Main questions were about hapkido, but because kombatan is the second style in many organizations, those questions were discussed also. Grandmaster Ziegler demonstrated several working methodics in working with knife and bankav in kombatan. Master Tachi demonstrated standart techniques which he use in trainings. Master Hubman demonstrated punching techniques in hapkido and palit-palit kobmatan. During the two 4 hours long trainings we had worked on many interesting techniques used by masters.
During the discussion Juerg Ziegler and Walter Hubman told a lot interesting about the history of hapkido and kombatan. Their stories were very interesing, taking the fact that both were one of the hapkido pioneers (not only sinmoo hapkido) in Europe, and personaly they know almost all Korean Masters.
