Choe's Hapkido of Dahlonega

Choe's Hapkido of Dahlonega is a martial arts school in Dahlonega, Georgia. It offers classes for kids, teens, and adults, and specializes in kids karate, adult martial arts, cardio fitness kickboxing, Tai Chi, and karate birthday parties. Students can also join a demonstration team, a leadership team, and championship competitions. Instruction is led by Jim Havens, owner of Choe's Hapkido of Dahlonega, and serves students from Dahlonega, Dawsonville, Cleveland, and Gainesville, GA.

The school teaches Chung Mu HapKiDo, an original and traditional style that has not been combined with other martial arts. HapKiDo translates as the way of coordinating inner strength with outer strength, and its structure includes more than 365 major techniques, organized around empty hand against empty hand, empty hand against a weapon, and weapon against weapon. The curriculum draws on both the hard, external school, which trains the body for strength, speed, and impact resistance, and the soft, internal school, which trains Ki through flexibility and circular force. Instructors emphasize character development traits including focus, discipline, self-control, respect, humility, and perseverance, and the school keeps current with self-defense techniques, teaching methods, nutrition, and exercise science.

Grandmaster JiMong Choe is originally from Seoul, Korea, and has over 50 years of martial arts experience, with expertise in more than 20 weapons across HapKiDo and Tae Kwon Do. The Choe family handed down this traditional style from first son to first son, and an ancestor, Choe Yue Sin, held a general's rank and fought in legendary battles for Korea. The school's philosophy follows In Ui Yeh Ji: perfect virtue, justice, etiquette, and wisdom. Students train on competition foam mats suited to self-defense, sparring, and rolling.

The school sits on Ethan Allen Drive, about a third of a mile from Cane Branch and roughly a mile from Welchel Valley. Lumpkin Company Park is about 1.4 miles away, and Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin is about 1.7 miles away.

Choe's Hapkido of Dahlonega holds a 5.00 rating from the customers who have reviewed it, reflecting the regard its students have for the instruction they receive in Dahlonega.