mastercole
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Anyone ever train and compete in the ancient Korean Martial Art of Ssireum?
Anyone ever train and compete in the ancient Korean Martial Art of Ssireum?
Never trained in, but while attending my father's 60th b-day party, the village had a their own little friendly match, which I participated in. I learned to never under estimate a 50 year old farmer that day. ha.ha.ha.
Ha! that is really cool, I would have loved to have tried it. I know it has a hard core following in Korea, but professional team are dying off. Last I heard there was only one professional team left. It's more popular as a folk event and is even in Sports for All.
The ssireum group came here 15 years ago and they had a couple few pro teams. I remember LG was one of them. Is ssireum dying in Korea?