I figured it was better to start a new thread.
There is a definite "kuk sool" feel to the art. Kuk Sool Won is a combination of Hapkido learned by GM SEO In Sun as well as students of GM JI Han Jae and GM KIM Moo Hong and the Southern Praying Mantis learned by GM SU In Hyuk. Hwarangdo is also related due to the fact that Dr. Joo Bang Lee was a student of GM KIM Moo Hong in Seoul. GM SU In Hyuk visited GM Kim's dojang, showed the students some of his southern preying mantis, and a group decided to join, including Dr. Joo Bang Lee. Later, Dr. Lee decided to break off on his own and called his art Hwarangdo. When I lived in California, I lived about two or three blocks from the Kuk Sool Won main headquarters. I had a friend who studied Kuk Sool Won in Berkeley under GM LEE Byung In and he had a friend who studied Hwarangdo at the Downey headquarters. They compared techniques and discovered that everything was substantially the same in Kuk Sool vs. Hwarangdo. The main differences were small ones, such as the Kuk Sool Won people did their hand techniques from a deeper horse stance (like a kung fu person would do) while the Hwarangdo people did theirs from a more upright stance, like a Hapkido person would do. But it was basically the same thing.
Tu Kong Mu Sul looks to be an off short of Kuk Sool Won, down to the lettering on the back of their uniforms.
The book I have is actually pretty intensive, and it shows what look to be actual notes taken from what I think was the foundation for the creation of the style.
Are you interested in studying Tu Kong Mu Sul, or are you interested in finding out more because there is a dojang nearby?
Thank you for looking.
The local group have a variety of soft forms they claim descends from the Shaolin temple. They are practiced with an emphasis on fluidity like KSW forms likewise are.
There is a definite "kuk sool" feel to the art. Kuk Sool Won is a combination of Hapkido learned by GM SEO In Sun as well as students of GM JI Han Jae and GM KIM Moo Hong and the Southern Praying Mantis learned by GM SU In Hyuk. Hwarangdo is also related due to the fact that Dr. Joo Bang Lee was a student of GM KIM Moo Hong in Seoul. GM SU In Hyuk visited GM Kim's dojang, showed the students some of his southern preying mantis, and a group decided to join, including Dr. Joo Bang Lee. Later, Dr. Lee decided to break off on his own and called his art Hwarangdo. When I lived in California, I lived about two or three blocks from the Kuk Sool Won main headquarters. I had a friend who studied Kuk Sool Won in Berkeley under GM LEE Byung In and he had a friend who studied Hwarangdo at the Downey headquarters. They compared techniques and discovered that everything was substantially the same in Kuk Sool vs. Hwarangdo. The main differences were small ones, such as the Kuk Sool Won people did their hand techniques from a deeper horse stance (like a kung fu person would do) while the Hwarangdo people did theirs from a more upright stance, like a Hapkido person would do. But it was basically the same thing.
Tu Kong Mu Sul looks to be an off short of Kuk Sool Won, down to the lettering on the back of their uniforms.
The book I have is actually pretty intensive, and it shows what look to be actual notes taken from what I think was the foundation for the creation of the style.
Are you interested in studying Tu Kong Mu Sul, or are you interested in finding out more because there is a dojang nearby?