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sword martial art (HAEDONG
KUMDO)
Haedong Kumdo students practice with a variety of
wooden, bamboo and metal
imitation swords. Using wooden swords, students learn
the basics, defense, offence, forms, cutting suspended
sheets of newspaper and extinguishing candles.
Students practice stances and steps that compliment the
“swish” of the blade as it cuts through the air. In
the hands of a sword martial artist, every-day sticks,
brooms or mops can become tools for self-defense.
Classes include lively partner drills using practice
swords (wooden and bamboo) for sword-to-sword contact
with various strikes and blocks. Students use targets
and dummies for full contact.
Students progress to more intricate sequences of moves.
As training proceeds, they use rounded-edged imitation
metal swords (Ka-Kum) to practice how to draw and
sheath froma case. Later, students practice cutting
cucumbers with dull-edged imitation metal swords (Sae-Kum).
They progress to throwing-drawing-cutting play dough
with the Sae-Kum..
Black belt students learn two-sword forms.
Advanced students practice cutting straw and bamboo with a live
blade (Jin-Kum) under personal supervision of the
master instructor.
Haedong Kumdo is a separate program from Tae Kwon Do.
By teaching both programs, we offer students the
powerful empty-hand and kicking of Tae Kwon Do as well
as the sword-wielding of Haedong Kumdo. Some students
learn both styles.
Haedong Kumdo
Class Times:
Thursday at 7:00 p.m. and
Saturday at 9:45 a.m.
HISTORY OF HAEDONG KUMDO and the two-sword art for
advanced students.
 Over 1,500 years ago, Samurang originated as a military
system of cultivating talented warriors to become Korean
leaders, like today’s officer candidates and West Point
cadets. Some of these Samurang went to Japan where they
became known as Samurai.
Modern times have seen the
re-popularization of Korean sword martial art. Hundreds
of do jangs teach Haedong Kumdo in Korea and in over 30
other countries around the world, thanks to the efforts
of World United Haedong Kumdo President Grandmaster J.
S. Kim whose efforts include numerous performances; the
publication of Haedong Kumdo text books; and the
implementation into the curriculum of two-sword
forms.
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