Download or read book Kong Soo Do written by Len Losik and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kong Soo Do The Way of the Empty Hand explains the origin of the only true style of Korean Karate, as taught by Master Gichin Funakoshi. Kong Soo Do was one of the most influential post-WW II Korean martial arts styles that would eventually become inifieed with the many other styles to become Korean Taekwondo. The author includes the path from Chuan Fa to Karate to Taekowndo and the path from training on dirt floors to an an Olympic sport with chapters on dojang etiquette and the detailed written instructions and drawings to learn all the Kata for promotion from white belt to Black Belt. Included are the instructions for the five Heien Kata, Nai Hanji Kata and Bassai Kata, also proper the dojang behavior and the Kong Soo Do belt ranking system. Other topics include the theories of Budo and Bushido and the 13 concepts. The author provides his extensive bibliography used to with Kong Soo Do, a complete Glossary and an extensive Index for the readers convenience.
Download or read book A Killing Art written by Gillis, Alex and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eagerly anticipated updated return of a bestselling martial arts classic The leaders of Tae Kwon Do, an Olympic sport and one of the worldÍs most popular martial arts, are fond of saying that their art is ancient and filled with old dynasties and superhuman feats. In fact, Tae Kwon Do is as full of lies as it is powerful techniques. Since its rough beginnings in the Korean military 60 years ago, the art empowered individuals and nations, but its leaders too often hid the painful truths that led to that empowerment „ the gangsters, secret-service agents, and dictators who encouraged cheating, corruption, and murder. A Killing Art: The Untold History of Tae Kwon Do takes you into the cults, geisha houses, and crime syndicates that made Tae Kwon Do. It shows how, in the end, a few key leaders kept the art clean and turned it into an empowering art for tens of millions of people in more than 150 countries. A Killing Art is part history and part biography „ and a wild ride to enlightenment. This new and revised edition of the bestselling book contains previously unnamed sources and updated chapters.
Download or read book Tang Soo Do written by Kang U. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book is the result of eight years of research into the history and methods of Tang Soo Do. This is the only work to present all 19 Tang Soo Do forms from white belt to black belt (fourth dan master grade). Each move of every form is explained in detail.
Download or read book The Lost Forms of Tang Soo Do written by Sy Cheatham and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning reference book is the culmination of thirteen years of study under Grandmaster Myung Seok Seo, my teacher. This book covers eleven forms from first dan to second dan midnight blue belt and includes photographs and detailed instructions of each movement. This book offers an easy to learn method which everyone can benefit from, while at the same time, increasing your knowledge of the more exotic forms of Tang Soo Do.
Download or read book Tang Soo Do Chung Do Kwan Creation History and Evolution written by Len Losik and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tang Soo Do Chung Do Kwan describes the creation, history and evolution of the first Korean Kwan to teach martial arts called Tang Soo Do in late 1944 by the Ching Do Kwan founder Grandmaster, Won Kuk Lee who was the first Korean martial arts Master to use the name Tang Soo Do to describe the Japanese style of Korean Karate he taught. It was also Korea's first Post World War II martial art that would get Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee arrested, imprisoned and put on trial as a Japanese sympathizer because he was allowed to teach Tang Soo Do with the Japanese still in control of Korea and later, his Tang Soo Do was so successful it became a threat to the new Korean independent government that his reputation was tarnished. The author describes Chung Do Kwan's travels through the new post World War II Korean government's work to close the Chung Do Kwan Tang Soo Do and the government forces that wanted Chung Do Kwan tang Soo Do to be changed to Chung Do Kwan Tae Kwon Do. The author includes Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee's relationship with the Japanese occupying forces in Korea that allowed him to teach Tang Soo Do just before the Japanese were forced to leave Korea by the U.S. Military and the U.S. military General that invited Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee to immigrate to the United States and avoid his enemies in the new, young independent Korean government that was destroying many Korean martial arts founders they could call a Japanese sympathizer from an earlier time. The author describes the entire evolution of the Chung Do Kwan Tang Soo Do as the first Kwan to teach Tang Soo Do and, as a political entity for the Korean government, Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee's many contribution to the development of Chung Do Kwan Tae Kwon Do and Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee's dedication to Taekwondo's journey to the 1988 Olympics. This book is for the experienced and serious Korean martial arts enthusiast.
Download or read book Tang Soo Do Basics written by Chun Sik Kim and published by Black Belt Communications Incorporated. This book was released on 1994-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red belt to first-degree black belt. Features combinations, advanced one-step sparring, advanced self-defense techniques, and three-station breaking. Includes excerpts from three World Tang Soo Do Championships tournaments.
Download or read book Tang Soo Do the Complete Story written by Len Losik, Ph.d. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tang Soo Do The Complete Story describes the creation, history and evolution of the 20th century Korean style of martial arts. It includes who the individuals were that opened the first Kwans teaching Tang Soo Do and Kong Soo Do and where each had earned their Black Belt while attending college in Japan that returned home to open the Kwans that taught Tang Soo Do as World War II was ending and the colonial occupational forces were being removed by the U.S. military planning to invade Japan. It also includes the creation and history of some of the other Kwans that taught their version of Tang Soo Do mixing Chuan Fa/Kwon Bup (Shaolin Fighting Art) and Tai Chi Chuan (Tae Kuek Kwan) such as the Moo Duk Kwan, Kang Duk Kwan, Kuk Moo Kwan, Jung Do Kwan, Yun Moo Kwan, O Do Kwan, Sang Moo Kwan, Chang Moo Kwan, Chung Do Kwan, Moo Duk Kwan. The author includes a list of the Hyungs of Tang Soo Do, a list of important events that led to the creation of Tang Soo Do, a Korean martial arts chronology covering many thousands of years, a comprehensive Hyung-to-Kata conversion table for Tang Soo Do Hyungs. The author also includes a substantial 80+ reference Bibliography, Glossary and Index for the serious reader's convenience.
Download or read book Black Belt written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest and most respected martial arts title in the industry, this popular monthly magazine addresses the needs of martial artists of all levels by providing them with information about every style of self-defense in the world - including techniques and strategies. In addition, Black Belt produces and markets over 75 martial arts-oriented books and videos including many about the works of Bruce Lee, the best-known marital arts figure in the world.
Download or read book Complete Tang Soo Do Manual written by Grandmaster Ho Sik Pak and published by High Mountain Pub. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestseller Complete Tang Soo Do Manual series represent Grand Master Ho Sik Pak's 37 years of experience in the art of Tang Soo Do and other martial arts styles. Volume 1 contains over 1,500 photographs describing fundamentals needed to progress from 10th Gup White Belt to 1st Dan Black Belt. Volume 2 is a full colour 296 pages book with over 2,000 photographs covering techniques from 2nd Dan to 6th Dan Black Belt. The Complete Tang Soo Do Manual series includes for the first time a total of 5 Chil Sung Hyungs (forms). Volume 2 includes chapters on history, teaching, running a Dojang, the most complete Tang Soo Do lineage ever published and much more. Grand Master Ho Sik Pak travelled to Korea twice to meet with senior Moo Duk Kwan Masters, research Tang Soo Do history and lineage, and practice advanced Hyungs and techniques from other Grand Masters. The requirements chapters include step by step photos of the Forms (14 total), Self-Defense (Wooden Knife, Short Stick, Sword, Knife and Gun), Breaking, Sparring and Endurance for each Dan level. As a bonus chapter Grand Master Pak included the Healing Form. He created this form in 2000. Practice of this form increases the flow of oxygen to the body, develops your chi and promotes healing. Volume 2 is the 1st Full Color Tang Soo Do book. Pictures were shot against beautiful backgrounds in Korea, New Zealand, Hawaii, and across the USA to create a book that not only teaches but inspires. This is a book for every serious martial artist, regardless of style!
Download or read book Living the Martial Way written by Forrest E. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step aooroiach to applying the Japanese warriors mind set to martial training and daily life.
Download or read book Korean Kung Fu The Chinese Connection Revised and Updated written by James J. Theros and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete book on the art of Korean Kung Fu (sometimes known as Sip Pal Gi). In this book, readers will learn the most important information about this art and how it inter-relates with other systems of martial arts, as well as the historical background on how the art came from China to Korea and who the pioneers of this art were. Readers will learn about the basics of the art and see several of the empty-hand forms included in the system, as well as the author's background and credentials.
Download or read book Muye Dobo Tongji written by Chŏngjo ((Roi de Corée ;) and published by Turtle Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1789, King Chongjo, ruler of the Yi dynasty, ordered General Yi Duk-moo to compile an official textbook on all martial art forms then present in Korea to preserve them for future generations. The result, the Muye Dobo Tongji, is the only surviving classical text on the Korean arts of war. Based on the earliest known Korean martial arts treatise, the Muye Chebo written in 1599, the Muye Dobo Tongji clearly shows the influence of the neighbouring Japanese and Chinese armies. Through hundreds of wars and invasions, Korean soldiers adapted battlefield skills and tactics from their enemies, creating a unique system of their own. Organised into 24 distinct disciplines comprised of empty hand fighting, weaponry and horsemanship, this book is an accurate historical snapshot of the warrior arts of the hermit kingdom in the late 18th century. The release of 'The Comprehensive Illustrated Manual of Martial Arts of Ancient Korea' marks the first time this volume is available in English. Carefully translated from the original text and illustrated with reproductions of ancient woodblock carvings, this book provides fascinating insights into Korea's martial arts legacy.
Download or read book Odo Kwan Tang Soo Do written by Len Losik and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes the creation, history and evolution of the Korean Kwan by the founder, Brigadier general, Grandmaster and genius, Choi, Hong Hi who created the Korean Fighting Tigers, Korean soldiers trained at the Odo Kwan and feared on the battle field by both American soldiers and the enemy who were the first special forces and the basis of the United States creation of its special forces and Seal Teams. Brigadier General Choi was ordered by the Korean President to unite the Korean Kwans after World War II so that Korea would have a National martial art and Olympic sport in competition with Japan who was working to get Judo accepted as an Olympic sport and the country with far more wealth and resources to use to reach their goal. The author describes the Japanese style of Karate Brigadier General Choi taught as a Korean martial art at the Chung Do Kwan under Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee and then at the Odo Kwan under Brigadier General Choi, Hong Hi and Colonel Nam tae Lee. The Odo Kwan, in collaboration with Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee, Founder of both Tang Soo Do and the Chung Do Kwan, one of Korea's first post World War II martial arts. Both Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee and Brigadier General Choi would have General Choi lose his Ambassadorship position to Malaysia in response to him creating the first international Taekwondo organization that was required so that Korea's Taekwondo could become an Olympic sport. The author describes how Brigadier General Choi and Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee would be perceived as a threat to the inexperienced Korean independent government that wanted to gain control of the international Taekwondo organization that would have allowed Taekwondo to become an Olympic sport. The author describes the Odo Kwan's journey from its start at the Chung Do Kwan, through the post World War II and Korean civil war and the Korean government's desire to convert Korea's version of Japanese Karate Do named Tang Soo Do to a uniquely Korean martial art named Taekwondo and receive the Korean governments support and funding with full resistance from many of the other kwans who wanted to be the leader of the effort to make Taekwondo an Olympic sport. The author includes Grandmaster Choi, Hong Hi's upbringing in Japan that would later be used by the Korean government officials to get Brigadier General Choi fired from his Ambassadorship to Malaysia and replace him with other government officials who would allow the Korean government to have full control of the international acceptance of Taekwondo that would allow Taekwondo to become an Olympic sport. Realizing he had enemies in the Korean government after several decades of working to unite the Korean martial arts community and create the first international Taekwondo organization to get Taekwondo into the Olympics and then forced to immigrate to Canada to avoid his enemies in the new, young and independent Korean government since 1870 that was searching to destroy anyone they would call a Japanese sympathizer. The author describes the evolution of the Odo Kwan Tang Soo Do to become the Odo Kwan Taekwondo as a political entity and its contribution to the development of Odo Kwan's Taekwondo and the creation of the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) and the creation of Korean government's World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) that replaced the ITF and WTF's Taekwondo's journey from the dirt floors of the first Korean martial arts Kwans after World War II to the beautiful Kukkiwon, Taekwondo's official training center as an Olympic sport.
Download or read book Korean Dynasty written by Donald Kirk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on a single Korean "chaebol", the business conglomerate which dominates the Korean economy. Hyundai, the largest chaebol, is examined in the context of Korean history, ancient and modern, and the Confucian value system that permeates all Korean life.
Download or read book Hapkido written by Bong Soo Han and published by Black Belt Communications. This book was released on 1974 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first complete book in English on hapkido, the kick-oriented Korean martial art. Included are warm-up exercises, basic fighting position, punching and striking, blocks and kicks, and hapkido defenses, with more than 500 dynamic photographs.
Download or read book Authentic Tang Soo Do written by Chun-sik Kim and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shek Kip Mei Myth written by Alan Smart and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Smart raises serious questions about the standard view that Hong Kong's mass public housing programme was a direct and humane response by the Government to the Shek Kip Mei fire. Rather he argues that the Government's response to that fire was grudging and incremental rather than a sharp and radical turning point, and that the security and stability of Hong Kong weighed as heavily, possibly more so, in the decisions than the predicament of the fire victims. His research shows that a whole sequence of major fires after Shek Kip Mei, and the political costs of the Mainland sending comfort missions to fire victims both before and after were needed to bring about the final commitment to provide mass public housing. In his critical examination of the conventional position, Professor Smart bases his case on a thorough reading of government records and provides a careful investigation into the origins of the public housing policy in Hong Kong. This volume makes an important contribution to the postwar history of Hong Kong and is a significant addition to the study of its modern development.
