Budo international Martial Arts Magazine Jul.-Aug. 2014 | Page 65

In recent years, thanks to the efforts
of Grandmaster Taejoon Lee, Hwa Rang
Do ® has undergone many changes in
the EU and Chief Instructor Mattiucci
has had the opportunity to participate
in various courses outside Italy
(Holland, Germany and Denmark) with
other teachers of proven experience,
like the Chief Instructor Alexander
Krijger.
The lessons of Hwa Rang Do ®, as
disciplined and hard, are fascinating
as they bring to us traditional
methods and approaches that are
being lost everywhere. The
reasons for this fascination can
also be seen in the epic films of
recent years, in the success of
the acclaimed films about
samurai,
legionnaires,
gladiators, ancient Rome,
Sparta, etc. Our society, in
fact,
has
grown
technologically but very little
from the ethical point of
view. Today we are
witnessing a tremendous
advance in the field of
available technologies
(VDS, Smartphone, Tablet,
etc.) which doesn't
correspond
to
the
increase of the human
spirit that, on the contrary,
is increasingly alone and
unmotivated at what he does.
Ancient warriors, the Korean
Hwarang, the heroes of
Sparta, Roman soldiers, the
samurai,
were
people
dedicated to fighting, but,
especially, they were motivated
to fight to the end, in this lies
their fascination.