Gunfighters, also known as gunslingers, shootists, pistoleers, or simply gunmen, were a fixture of the nineteenth-century American West. The term is applied generally to individuals who were celebrated for their proficiency with handguns and their willingness to use them in deadly confrontations. Because fights between men armed with “six-shooters” were common on the frontier, the […]
Hapkido (Way of Coordinated Power) is a Korean method of combat utilizing hand strikes, kicks, joint locks, throws, restraints, and chokes. In its most specific use the term Hapkido identifies that art transmitted to Ji Han-Jae by Choi Yong-Shul. In a broader sense, the term Hapkido has also come to identify Korean martial arts that […]