tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969550358686428094.post276803847368697262..comments2024-03-22T19:24:38.860+01:00Comments on Traditional Taekwondo Ramblings: Is Keumgang a basic form?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969550358686428094.post-81317274334075533702017-09-15T01:21:28.677+02:002017-09-15T01:21:28.677+02:00Keumg ang is a great form. I don't think it is...Keumg ang is a great form. I don't think it is necessarily boring. I think it takes a lot of skill and grace to perform. There are actual self defense applications for each movement believe it or not. People do not have enough teachers who show these techniques and it is annoying. I got better at this form in Korea and my instructor in Korea helped me a lot. I still feel like I am not good at it though. <br /><br />There is a lot of great exercise benefits to the deep breathing and slow motion things in martial arts. Keumgang also has applications against 2 attackers grabbing you on each side and some other cool things. It is not easy to perform. <br /><br />I still think it is perfecetly fine at 2nd dan. I don't see why we should change it. <br /><br />Pal gwe on the other hand are so great and fun to do. You should learn them just for the heck of it. I am lucky to have always learned them and over the years updated them on portions where my old instructor had them wrong. By video and looking at books. But there is video online from a Kukkiwon grandmaster I followed to fix any mistakes. I have always done them my entire TKD life. I teach them and make people learn a tae geu and pal gwe for each other. I also want to teach original Koryo for black belt as well as Koryo.<br /><br />I plan to make some fun videos teaching every form I know but it will be over time. I will do pal gwes in due time. do have videos of me doing some pal gwel forms though even in Korea in a park. <br /><br />WhiteDragonDojanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02389619275151230426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969550358686428094.post-670424041819958202017-05-29T21:17:18.673+02:002017-05-29T21:17:18.673+02:00It is practised a lot by those who emphasise it, a...It is practised a lot by those who emphasise it, and not at all by those who were never taught and or do not care :-) The masters I spoke to had the Ki-gung part of the forms as part of "their" Taekwondo, but I have yet to meet a master or speak to one who has this part of forms training their primary aim. Many have also expressed that this is a part of the students personal jurney so I do not know how much emphasis is done in mainstream training if any. In my own education (from my teachers) I have been taught pretty much from the start that there are ki-gung aspects of the forms we practise, but even then in everyday training this has been taught in a basic way. I've learned much more by asking my teacher when we have had 1-1 time about this aspect than I have in Dojang practise.<br /><br />There are remnants of this in the Kukkiwon Textbook and in other Poomsae books though, particulary in the sections of Poomsae where we breathe and move slowly. <br /><br />Keumgang has always fascinated me for as long as I've trained. The slow and fast movements, the spins, the lack of high kicks etc. In my opinion it is a form that is screaming out to the students too look deeper.<br /><br />Thanks for the link. It was thought-provocing :-) Ørjan Nilsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506123119682274818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969550358686428094.post-72446208053382049792017-05-16T14:29:34.850+02:002017-05-16T14:29:34.850+02:00interesting to hear this. for the most part i have...interesting to hear this. for the most part i have never heard much mention of the chi kung aspects of any of the Korean forms, even from first generation masters. I am not quite sure how much of this is actually emphasized, especially in the way they are usually performed and instructed.<br />I am aware of these aspects that are embedded in such things as Tai-Chi, albeit that it does demand a change in mental focus, but take something like Xin-Yi (an art conceptually much closer to TKD) that moves so fast that the Chi-Kung is a separate exercise. <br />with regard to Keumgang though, it has always been a favorite of mine. So refreshing to find a Kukki form that has no kicks, and a dearth of punches. it was actually one of the first forms that i bothered to teach apps for because most practitioners were so unaccustomed to finding any meaning at all in it. after a session that would have them learning to break arms, necks, Kyushu knockouts, etc.---they would never look at their forms the same way again. <br /><br />also, for a different perspective i would like to refer you to this article:<br />http://asaikarate.com/an-advanced-methodology-of-fumikomi-the-foot-stomping-technique-「踏み込み足」上級者向け稽古/<br /> <br />richardchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03329168045786232138noreply@blogger.com