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 Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:21 pm
I'm not really sure where to start. So, let's do it this way:
Does anyone have any questions about Kuk Sool? Has anyone heard of Kuk Sool? Any other topics that I can't think of at the moment?
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:38 pm
A good place to start is give a little background and basic info on the art.
i'm going to say it's either Korean or Vietnamese by the sound of the name though...
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:49 pm
Okie doke.
Kuk Sool is a Korean art. It's a hybrid style. Tribal, Buddhist, and Royal Court styles are blended into one comprehensive system. The way my instructors describe it, learning Kuk Sool is like learning the history of Martial Arts. A little bit of everything is incorporated into the art: Grappling, weaponry, pressure points, leg techniques, hand techniques, animal styles, meditation, body conditioning, etiquette, and so on. There's much to learn, but Kuk Sool is taught in such a way that it's easy to learn, and students start learning useful defensive techniques right away.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:24 pm
how do they do the weapons?
like when training, do you learn something like the staff early on and progress just like with your empty handed stuff, or do you have to wait till a certain rank?
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:52 pm
That differs, depending on who your instructor is. There's emphasis on hand-to-hand combat in my Do-Jang (what you would call a Dojo), so weapons training comes when we have time to work on it.
The first weapon my instructor teaches White Belts is Jul Bong (Nunchaku). Basic spinning and strikes are learned, along with a form. After working with Jul Bong, he introduces students to wooden Gum (Swords), and just recently he started incorporating the Dan Bong (Short Staff) into our weapons training.
Some things are reserved for higher belts. For example, the full sized Bong (Staff) is usually reserved for Brown Belts. But, he started teaching me, a Blue Belt, some of the Bong spinning, strikes, and part of the form, when I made my own Bong and brought it to the Do-Jang for him to approve.
And then there are weapons that are only taught to advanced Black Belts trusted by high ranking members of Kuk Sool.
My instructor tells me that in the old days of Kuk Sool, weapons were taught with nearly as much emphasis as hand-to-hand combat, and students moved on to more advanced or dangerous weapons when their instructors felt them to be ready. Now, to make Kuk Sool simpler and a little more modernized, weapons are taught more on the side and some are reserved for higher ranks.
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:20 am
Is it just me or does anyone else see the Japanese influence in it? And I mean weapons wise. Like, now a days, the only traditional Korean martial art is archery, but there are many Korean arts now that trace their origins back to Japanese styles from as far back as WWII, when Japan ruled Korea and banned all traditional Korean martial arts, except archery. I find that awesome, because you could see the art's lineage and how evolved to what it is now. Here are some examples of what I mean:
Ken(Japanese), Gum(Korean)-Sword
Bo(Japanese), Bong(Korean)-Staff
Hanbo(Japanese), Dan Bong(Korean)-Short staff
Thanks for posting this, I'm interested if you'd like to share more.
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:05 am
If I could not study Tracy's Kenpo and there was a Kuk Sool school in my area, I would do it. I did some research into Kuk Sool some time ago and it is a very well put together art. One of the few "complete" systems.
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