Posted by KC Elbows on March 06, 2003 at 19:58:24:
In Reply to: Re: On the hapkido discussion posted by Tl on March 06, 2003 at 17:41:00:
'If you have your friends go to Kyongju, if thats convenient to them, and if they are former Chung Moo guys they can see stone carvings in a temple like guards who seem to be doing the most basic mental form from early 80's Chung Moo Kwan.'
The kong su stuff is what you'd be referring to, and I think you'll find that any practitioners under the banner chung moo kwan in korea are largely practicing those techniques, whereas in the US they are largely practicing tai chi chung and pal gae and tang non, the first of those being made in the late eighties/early nineties, and not truly in keeping with korean martial traditions. In fact, the US chung moo quan/oom yung doe schools claim that their styles are from one source, china, not korea. In fact, they hold that their boggwa is higher form than any of the arts they teach that are traditionally considered korean(kong su), or hapkido and aikido. In fact, according to their lineage, what is known of it, Kim is the only korean grandmaster or master. According to their own tradition, they do not study a korean art, when in fact, they were originally named after a korean art(and were probably practicing said art), and then another korean art, yet the majority of the arts they teach are not korean, and, according to their history, none of the arts they teach are truly korean, though clearly their kong su is korean.
I'm curious what postures those statues are in. Please describe. Unfortunately, the bulk of the stance work in the moo is identical to what is found in many other arts, with only one truly significant difference.
'Taipei had some really interesting museums, (at least to the non expert, myself) and even a couple that I didn't like as much in Pyongyang The chung moo kwan guys seemed to have had some. You'd have to ask higher belts in 0YD about that.'
In pyongyang?