That I like, I also tell my student when practicing "Hyung" don't stop regardless if they make a mistake just keep going, this way they become...
I agree with much already posted, I would add this everything around you can become a weapon when needed, so do you have to carry a weapon no, but...
Reading everybodies posts on this thread, does the true history and origins of the kata's come into question, I know everybody say's they came...
Puunui, I stand corrected the Chung Do Kwan Tang Soo Do was started in 1944, my mistake. As for GM Hwang Kee's experience and starting his own...
If your grabbed and thrown to the ground put your legs to work the best you can, kicking can be done standing or on the ground the same goes for...
Your right GM Won Kuk Lee studied Okinawan Karate (Shotokan) while in Japan, but when he returned to Korea and after he got permission from the...
The true history and origins of TSD have been best to death, as one person said it all depends on who you believe. GM Won Kuk Lee learned...
I personally don't like one-steps. Ken
When my students spar they make "contact" their also allowed to use their elbows and knee along with upper-cuts and hooks for "close quarter"...
I think all the MA are prue to their nature, the comcept borrowing something from another style and adding to your own style has been around ever...
Being a part-time instructor and working on having your own school some day makes juggling your time a little bit harder, but it can be done,...
After seeing the "youtube" video I can say that there's really no easy answer, running away is alway's the best, but if you must fight find...
I would say the best idea would be to pick 2 days a week within which you can train, it also may depend on how long your classes are, most are...
I use to teach "bunkai" application when teaching the "Hyungs" I stopped to this a long time back, I discovered that there where many different...
I never go a chance to speak to any of the founders of the Chung Do Kwan or the Moo Duk Kwan, I wish I had, but my research comes from my...
Knife self-defense isn't the same as knife prearranged hyungs (kata) which in turn is the same as knife fighting (sparring), they each have their...
Reality and children, the fact is the most children just like adults will freeze the moment their attacked, instructors can only go so are far,...
I believe have a teacher is important to ones over all development, in just about everything we do job, school, MA, sports, there is some one who...
Hi Master Cole, Actually Ssirum was and still is Korean's original Wrestling martial arts, how ever Tae Kyon and Yu Sool where both part of the...
My only feeling on this subject is this, true martial arts of any kind were never ment for kids, under the age 13yrs., a lot of Karate, TKD, TSD,...
Any martial art style will work, it may not work the way you train in the dojang (dojo) and it's not suppost to, the dojang is where you practice...
I know my students like a lot of hands on and partner training, pad work, sparring, westling, weapons sparring and other kinds of sparring we do,...
How would you know whether or not your instructor has been in a real fight unless you ask him, or he talks alot about it, most MA instructors that...
I've always thought Shotokan did make contact when sparring, I've sparred with many Shotokan parctitioners in the past and we always made contact...
It means nothing, martial arts is about the essence and character of the person, not the belt or the uniform that he/she wears (personal feeling) Ken
I personally think all rank certification should be signed by your instructor, now not all instructors are part of organiztions and they shouldn't...
Actually none of the Korean martial arts of today can trace their history before 1944, that was when GM Won Kuk Lee first brought "Okinwan Karate"...
I've seen other Rohai Hyung/kata like these, that why it's widely believe that GM Hwang Kee learn hsi hyung from other sources and not just from...
I was bullied when I was younger, that's the main reason I got into martial arts in the first place, and I was going to get even. But many years...
I just smile and say nothing. Ken
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