Haidong Gumdo Competition

Competition footage from the 2002 World Championships.


For more information visit:
World Haidong Gumdo Federation
http://eng.hdgd.org
American Haidong Gumdo Association
http://www.ushaidong.com/
Canadian Haidong Gumdo Association
http://www.hdgumdo.ca/

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Haidong
• Gumdo
• Haedong
• Kumdo
• Korean
• Competition
• Sword
• Sparring
• Forms

[radiowave433]

Please stop using Katana and hakama...these are for Japanese kendo, not for Kumdo...just to avoid mis conceptions and for Korean, please try to respect own Korean traditions!

[bonnymab]

Hanguk Haedong Kumdo wear more traditional korean uniforms. Daehan Haidong Gumdo wear uniforms similar to the japanese style. Why? You'd have to ask the respective heads of each federation.

Me? I respect my instructor for the time and energy he has put into teaching me. I wear what he tells me to wear. Call me disrespectful but I don't care about what essentially amounts to just a bunch of clothes.

Now as for the sword there are differences in the korean style jingum and japanese katana

[taihuu25go]

GUmdo copied Japanese kendo in 1970's and was born.

It is made clear that there is not the history in Gumdo at a Korean court of law.

A Korean still reciteing the false history they as for the Korean is because is it.

They do not choose the means for money and the honor.

[bonnymab]

There is art there. But you're not seeing all there is to this art. A lot of what makes it on to the web is flashy competition demos and the like, which tend to over ephasis things. But trust me under all that is good old "boring" foundation. Stance training, step-sparing drills, forms training, all the goodies.

I watch some iaito videos and think "what was that move supposed to do?" and it flies over my head. i admit it. It's hard to glean every thing an art is from some youtube video.

[bonnymab]

it's most likely a kagum, an unsharpened, single edge blade, similar to an iaito blade but typically straighter with a slight shorter hilt.

[bonnymab]

Taihuu25go, proof-read your posts before you post them. It'll make more sense.

Yes, Gumdo is new, only dating back to the 70's but has roots in many different arts. Those proposing that it has 1000's year roots are misleading.

Lets not get into the history/honor debate unless you also want to discuss the Japanese occupation and cultural assimilation of Korea.

Leave the past in the past. Enjoy what you do today.

[radiowave433]

What is "art" in it? no theory in these moves. Japanese styles are boring but its essence are came from real Samurai one on one duel.

[SuperStreet04]

those are not sharp katana they are called Iaito katana not sharp but sturdy like a real katana

[twkXIII]

peaches :)

[bonnymab]

And others view japanese styles as boring. We can both throw quips back and forth, continuing the long tradition of "my art's better than yours" or we can just enjoy what our repective arts offer.