SahBumNimRush
Master of Arts
Over the weekend, I was presented with my 7th dan certificate by both my sah bum nim and my kwan jang nim. After 36 years, it was a great honor to have them both present.
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7th Dan Presentation
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Congratulations! I'm sure that the journey has been long and fruitful for you, and I wish you many more years of martial arts success!
andyjeffries
Senior Master
Awesome, congratulations my friend! A huge achievement, worthy of at least a beer or two ;-)
Congratulations!
Congrats, bro!
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SahBumNimRush
Master of Arts
Thanks everybody! I never would have made it to this point in my journey without my teachers, seniors, and training partners over the past 36-37 years. It's very humbling to think that I am the same rank now that my kwan jang nim was when I joined in 1985.
Congratulations! Nice to have those you respect on hand for that.
J. Pickard
Brown Belt
congratulations! You got some really nice action shots in those pictures, especially on the side kick and board break. What style/system of TKD do you guys train?
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SahBumNimRush
Master of Arts
I train in Moo Duk Kwan Taekwondo. It's not a particularly popular form of TKD anymore. My Kwan Jang Nim supported the unification efforts, but immigrated to the US in the 1960's before the modernization of TKD occurred. We still teach the older Japanese/Okinawan forms.
J. Pickard
Brown Belt
That's pretty cool. we do a few of the old Okinawan kata as well ( empi, bassai, kushanku, pinan kata). It's nice to hear of other schools that still follow this tradition.
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SahBumNimRush
Master of Arts
Our hyung curriculum primarily consists of Kicho, Pyung Ahn (Pinan), Bassai, Naihanchi (Tekki), Chinto, and Kong Sang Kun (Kushanku).
dvcochran
Grandmaster
That is awesome!!! Much respect and a massive congratulation!!!
Welcome to the club!
dvcochran
Grandmaster
We are on a very similar path. I started in '84 and am 7th MDK, 5th KKW, and a couple firsts Dan's. My KJN was 8th in MDK and 6th in Kung Fu when I started. A few years after I started he jumped on the WT/KKW bandwagon and is now 9th in both TKD derivatives and 8th Kung Fu.
dvcochran
Grandmaster
It is refreshing to hear about people/schools who embrace the 'older' techniques/forms.
We do the Kicho Hyungs and Pyung Ahn's as our main color belt form set but also introduce the Taeguek's and Palgwe's. We also practice the KKW Yudnaja poomsae Plus the MDK BB forms so a tenured BB has the opportunity to learn a lot of forms.
This is great for people who are not interested in competition. We have a good compliment of booth and we have classes for each of them (competition and forms).
We do not do the Tekki forms because they are so similar to the Naihanchi forms or Chinto because it is so similar to Kong Sang Koon.
Very well done.
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