Straw Cutting demo Haidong Gumdo 2004-Part One

Straw Cutting demo Haidong Gumdo 2004

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Sports

Tags:

• Straw
• Cutting
• demo
• Haidong
• Gumdo
• 2004

[nukitsuke88]

swords you see in these Haedong demonstrations are called sam-gak-do (삼각도) or triangular swords. They are literally triangular in shape, and very fragile structurally and hence unfit for real combat. They are only good for Haedong demonstrations.

[James6630]

Wow! I watched the vid and I was like, where are the cuts? HIs blade literally just passed right through. That's cool.

[martaunforgiven]

@4242263 are you conscious that haedong gumdo is not like a bullshit of "combat preparation", it's more that fighting, its ART. That's why there only are haedong demonstrations nor fights.

Don't think you understand this thinking that simply.

[r0undst0ne]

@4242263 shut the fuck up people that dont train this matial art can say enything about this

[xXSkuraiXx]

@4242263 That's Kendo. Kendo is a 1 on 1 duel. No, you would not spin around and "dance" when facing one opponent. However, Haidong Gumdo was designed for battlefield combat. When up against multiple armed infantry I imagine wide circular motions would be quite useful. You can't always just take what you've trained in and project it into other arts because they're somewhat similar. The two arts have roughly the same weapon but a totally different mindset.

[yourlitlesister]

just out of curriosity, and i dont mean to offend anybody by this as i just dont personally know, they call this straw cutting, is this anything similar to tatami in japanese martial arts, one more thing, this straw, if it isnt similar to tatami, does it have a similar consistency to flesh?

[enushisama]

武藝圖譜通志Muye Dobo Tongji (1790) : Comprehensive Illustrated Manual of Martial Arts in Korea .

[It is an official document at a Korean Dynasty, written by The Korean King order in the 18th century]

國練兵之制三軍練于郊，衛士練于禁苑，其禁苑練兵盛自 光廟朝，然止弓矢一技而已如槍劍法技，既未之聞焉，

Archery was the only martial art that had been practiced by Korean soldiers. They have no skills of sword or spear fighting (in the 17th century ! ).

購得戚繼光紀效新書遣訓局郎韓嶠遍質東來將士

Therefore, Koreans began learning sword skills and others from Chinese .