2025 New Zealand Hapkido Festival and 4th Oceania Cup

We would like to invite you to the 2025 New Zealand Hapkido Festival and 4th Oceania Cup Friendship Tournament, which is being run and hosted by the Upper Hutt Martial Arts Academy, and run in association with the New Zealand Hapkido Federation. The competition will run from Friday 26th September to Sunday 28th September.

The tournament is a little bit different from your standard martial arts tournament in that there is more of an emphasis on the non-sparring aspect. We want the tournament to be more about demonstrating a wide range of Hapkido skills as well as networking and building friendships across different schools, styles and nations.

This tournament is aimed at New Zealand Hapkido practitioners, but other Martial Arts students may attend by invitation. Please contact Callum to discuss this.

We will again be visited by Grand Master Scott Seo and Master Ha, from the World Kido Federation / Hanminjok Hapkido Federation, and there will also be a contingent of Australian Hapkido practitioners.

There are three cups available to be won at the 4th Oceania Cup Friendship Tournament:
- Junior Cup (7-12)

- Youth Cup (13-19)

- Oceania Cup (20+)

To be eligible for the Junior Cup you need to compete in a minimum of three events - chosen from Sparring, Self-Defence, Unarmed Pattern/Hyung, Jumping Side Kick and Rolling Break Fall.

To be eligible for either the Youth Cup or the Oceania Cup you need to compete in a minimum of three events - chosen from Sparring, Self-Defence, Unarmed Pattern/Hyung and Armed Pattern/Hyung.

Only your 3 highest scores are counted if you enter more than 3 events.

General seminars led by Master Seo will be run on the afternoon of Friday, 26 September. All seminars will be at the competition venue. Proposed times are:
- Children (Tigers 7 - 12 years) at approximately 12:30 for 1 hour.
- Hapkido seminar (13+ years) at approximately 13:45 for 2 hours.
- Black Belts at approximately 16:00 for 1 hour.
- 3rd Dan+ Black Belts at approximately 17:15 for 1 hour. 


To be eligible to attend any of the seminars you must be a New Zealand Hapkido Federation student or a student from one of our guest schools.

The competition will commence on Saturday, 27 September. On the first day, the following events will be run*:
- Hapkido Dragons Student Events (5 - 7 years)

- Long Rolling Break Falls
- Jumping Side Kicks
- Unarmed Patterns / Hyungs
- Armed Patterns / Hyungs

At the conclusion of the first day, there will be a formal dinner held at Blend Bar.

On Sunday, 28 September, the following events will be run*:
- Self-Defence Routines
- Demonstrations
- Sparring

- Ground fighting (Following NZJJF rules)
- Prize Giving

Tickets for seminars and dinner must be purchased separately from the main entry and are open to non-competitors subject to availability.

Fully paid-up members of the New Zealand Hapkido Federation are eligible for a 10% discount on their entry fees. Please contact the NZHF for the discount code.

Spectator entry by Koha at the door.

*Timetable is subject to change depending on entries. The final timetable will be confirmed closer to the date.

We'll update this page with more details closer to the date and announce when registrations open.