> Who is more agile-wrestler or hapkido guy?

Who is more agile-wrestler or hapkido guy?

Posted at: 2014-09-13 
Remember, the question is only about agility, not if they would win a fight or defend themselves better, just who is more agile. Not saying one group as a whole is better than the other group as a whole.

In my experience, I was in better shape when I was in wrestling because I worked out about twice as much as I ever did in a Hapkido class, not to say I didn't have some really good workouts in Hapkido, but it didn't compare to the length of practice times, amount exercises that felt like sprinting the whole time.

With that being said, it's a high chance that a normal wrestler would be more agile than a normal Hapkido guy. No matter what style you are, there's always someone better, but I worked out more as a wrestler.

It all depends on the practitioner and how they train. In Hapkido a skilled practitioner can do things that would make a wrestler think twice.

@Vengelous, wrestlers do have great skills and cardio. But look at some of the skilled blackbelts of Hapkido. It is all abt technique and skills, hapkido has a whole different area that wrestlers never touch upon. And Hapkido in the blackbelt level do some ground work that would put a hurt on a wrestler.

Both you and the question asker are asking and talking abt 2 different groups of people. Sports vs nonsports. Someone who "plays" by rules vs. some one who doesn't have rules. No comparison.

Hapkido

They're both agile in their own spaces. Though Hapkido is not strictly a grappling art and is agile outside of the body to body contact spaces. That doesn't mean a wrestler can't change his position fast inside that space neither.