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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Kuk Sool Won™

I've been receiving a lot of emails asking me what is Kuk Sool Won™. Although I'm by no means an expert on the subject. I can shed a little light on the matter.

In Hyuk Suh is the founder, Grandmaster and President of the World Kuk Sool Association®. He has studied martial arts for more than 50 years.It was in the late 1950's that In-hyuk Suh begun the monumental task of organize and formulate the many scattered martial art techniques of Korea into a single system, which he named Kuk Sool. Officially founded as Kuk Sool Won™(National Martial Arts Association) in 1961.Kuk Sool Won™ is a systematic study of all of the traditional fighting arts, which together comprise the martial arts history of Korea. As such, Kuk Sool Won™ is extremely well organized and seeks to integrate and explore all aspects of the traditional Korean martial arts.Kuk Sool has countless techniques derived from the three branches of traditional Korean martial arts Tribal, Buddhist, and Royal Court and is structured to take a practitioner in a logical progression from the beginning all the way up to Master level.

As a martial arts system, Kuk Sool Won™ covers the entire spectrum of established Asian fighting arts and body conditioning techniques, as well as mental development and traditional weapons training. The following list includes some, but by no means all, of the elements of Kuk Sool Won™.

HAND TECHNIQUES
LEG TECHNIQUES
THROWING and GRAPPLING
JOINT-LOCKING TECHNIQUES
FALLING TECHNIQUES and ACROBATICS
BODY CONDITIONING
ANIMAL-STYLE TECHNIQUES
TRADITIONAL KOREAN WEAPONS
MARTIAL ART HEALING METHODS
MEDITATION and BREATHING TECHNIQUES


As you can see, Kuk Sool Won™ covers an extensive variety of martial art techniques. Below you will find videos of Master's Alex and Sung Jin Suh demonstrating some of the things we learn in Kuk Sool. For more information visit the Kuk Sool Won website by clicking the link. You can find information about schools in your area also.


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