History of Poomse

[matt.m]

What order did the following set of forms get introduced?

Palgwae, Tae Guek, and Chong Gi series or ITF to be more accurate.

[Spookey]

Dear Sir,

The hyungs (as they where originally refered to) where created in the following order:

Pyung An - these are the hyungs of the Japanese / Okinawan Karate-do that returned to Korea where they where practices by the students of Tang Soo Do (Korean transliteration for the word Karate)

Chang Hon Hyungs (ITF-including Chon Gi) Introduced beginning in 1955

Pal-Gwe Hyungs - Created around or just before the inception of the WTF (approx 71'-73')

Tae-Geuk Poomse - Created to modernize the WTF curricullum (as the Pal-Gwe where much like Kata of Karate-do). I believe these where introduced in the 80's but Im not the WTF-Kukkiwon expert on this site)

Taekwon!
SPookS

[Fluffy]

And I'll add; Songahm (ATA) forms in 1983-84.

Interesting piece of history. Thanks.