Kuk Sool Korea Championship 2006

The Korean Kuk Sool Won Martial Arts championship from this year. I Put it to some traditional Korean Folk Music. This is about half of the demo. Pretty Awesome. Also, if you live in Minnesota, the first Kuk Sool school in the state has opened. Visit it, join, and learn something awesome.

http://www.stpaulksw.com/blog

Kuk Sool is basically a form of Hapkido with weapons, joint locks, pressure points, throws, kicks and punches. It's a great holistic Martial Art rather than Tae Kwon Do which is just kicks or Judo which is just throws. Kuk Sool has everything a traditional Martial Art should have.

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• korea
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• kwan
• jang
• nim
• hapkido
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• joint
• locks
• weapons

[david102898]

kuk is my last name. :)

[TBRLTROI]

Funny how people believe that MMA techs would work in a real life fight. There are no rules in real life. MMA has a lot of rules. Look them up. The things you see in any martial art demo, regardless of style, is ment mostly for conditioning and a little entertainment.

[GuamKomudo]

Any MMA guys come in here to trash talk (I am a "MMA guy" btw) saying this art is not effective, and that they don't train for real fighting. I wanna see MMA VS the guys at 14 seconds...

[KTK401]

@KTK401 Apologies, the site is actually at:

hmjhapkido dot or dot kr

kind regards

[eharmon]

@KTK401

Lol, whatever. You have your views on it and I have mine.

But I'm going to go with what my family has said and lived through, and you can go with things that you have researched.

I completely understand though.

Thank you for your time, sir.

[KTK401]

@eharmon With respect I would advise you to study the true history of Hapkido, you will find that Suh In Hyuk fabricated the origin of Kuk Sool Hapkido and only when he left for America did he reinvent Kuk Sool as a separate school and denied that it is Hapkido. This is silly because in Korea Republic Kuk Sool falls under the parent organisation for Hapkido martial arts: Hanminjok Hapkido.

You can see in the gallery at their site: hanminjok dot or dot com

Check out the gallery!

kind regards

[KTK401]

@eharmon Hanminjok is just an *organisation*, it's not a "style"

"Kuk Sool Won" is and always was a school of Hapkido (basically Hapkido with Korean nationalism thrown in)

It was always called Kuk Sool Won Hapkido and (yes it was around under that name 50 years ago) They dropped the Hapkido from it and re-invented it as "purely Korean" (uuterly false) only after Choi Yong Sool died

In Korea Kuk Sool Won is just another school of Hapkido and comes under the auspices of the Hanminjok.

[eharmon]

@KTK401

Ok, sir, with all due respect, you got the facts all wrong. The grandmaster of Kuk Sool Won is my uncle, and my mother's sister is married to the grandmaster of Hanminjok Hapkido. My parents have been training under Kuk Sa Nim for over 30 years which means that its been around for over 50years. Hanminjok Hapkido has only been around since the 90's. I don't mean to make you mad, or correct you, I'm just stating what I have been told by actual family members.

[brendanf62]

they do bow arrows asswell

[KTK401]

Well, it's not an assumption, it's actual fact.

I do Kuk Sool and am a martial arts historian, I've been practicing martial arts for 21 years, and I can tell you that Kuk Sool "Won", or just Kuk Sool, (known in correctly as: Korea as Kuk Sool Hapkido) is a Hapkido art, and is a variety of Hapkido with extra techniques added.

Google Hanminjok Hapkido and find out for yourself.

regards,