Ashura Posted January 24, 2003 Posted January 24, 2003 I'v just recently heard about this martiala rts, it sounds Korean, but it might not I've seen some moves from it, and it looks kind of like Tae Kwan Do. So what is Moo Duk Kwan? Yup
niel0092 Posted January 24, 2003 Posted January 24, 2003 Moo Duk Kwon is Korean. As I understand it, it was on of the arts in Korea that unified under the name TKD. There may be schools that teach MDK solely but I havent run into one in my neck of the woods. "Jita Kyoei" Mutual Benefit and Welfare
karatekid1975 Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 I studied Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan. I have a few websites for you to look at This site is a general TSD MDK site: http://www.traininghalls.com/tsd/ My old assn site: https://www.imahq.net This is an awsome all around general TSD site: http://pages.cthome.net/redtsd/#sect5 Here's a site that has the TSD, TKD (both WTF and ITF), and SBD forms on it, if you like to check them out: http://mchenry.homeip.net/TangSooDo/forms/index.htm These are my fav sites. But If you do a google ( https://www.google.com ) search for Moo Duk Kwan, there should be a lot of great sites about it. I hope this helps Laurie F
bustr Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 Moo Duk Kwan is Shotokan with the serial number ground off. I've been learning the Heian and Tekki forms so I can rank in Moo Duk Kwan.
kchenault Posted January 27, 2003 Posted January 27, 2003 Moo Duk Kwan is all Korean thank you very little bustr. The line of the kicks themselves speaks volumes about its origins. No leaning into the kick as in japanese hard styles. Purely straight body alignment for more torque and power. Ken ChenaultTFT - It does a body good!
bustr Posted January 27, 2003 Posted January 27, 2003 Okay it's modified Shotokan The Pyong Ahn forms are just slightly modified Heians 1 thru 5.
TKD Trainer Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 I am stuying Moo Duk Kwan Taekwondo way up here in Norway. Our master studied this Taekwondo style and so we train this style.
karatekid1975 Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 I did do Moo Duk Kwan TKD for a month, I do WTF TKD still (long story). I studied both TSD MDK and WTF TKD, so I can see some MDK influence in WTF style forms. Taeguk 5 starts out like pyung ahn cho dan. Taeguk 4 has pieces of pyung ahn ee dan in it. One of the higher taeguk forms reminded me of Bassai (I forget which one off hand). Ok, I'm rambling. I just got done class, and I noticed this stuff in class. I'll shut up now LOL. Laurie F
JaseP Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Moo Duk Kwan is Shotokan with the serial number ground off. I've been learning the Heian and Tekki forms so I can rank in Moo Duk Kwan. Totally wrong here. Moo Duk Kwan translates literally as Military Way School. The Moo Duk Kwan was founded by Hwang Kee in 1946. It was one of the first major Kwans, or schools, in Korea, and spread rapidly due to it's proximity and relationship to the railroads in Korea. As for the use of the okinawan form sets, they make up only a portion of what is taught in Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan. In fact Hwang Kee was one of the very few Korean Kwan Jangs who did not ever have a Japanese instructor. He borrowed the heian/pinan form sets from a book he discovered in the Seoul Railstation library. They are not performed anything like the way that the Shotokan practitioners perform them. Hip rotation and application of energy are totally different. They were added because people had more familiarity with the okinawan and japanese arts and without that association, few people would train in Hwang's school. He had originally called his art Hwa Soo Do, but the name never inspired people to train, so he used the more generic Tang Soo Do. In the 1960s the unification movement sought to combine all the Korean martial arts. Originally the name of the combined art was to be Tae Soo Do. Hwang Kee resisted this unification because he felt their direction was all wrong. He was also in the process of translating the Muye Dobo Tonji, and implementing some of the techniques contained in it's description of Kwon Bop (fist fighting) into his art. The result were the Chil Song and Yuk Ro form sets, as well as forms such as Sip Se Hyung and Hwa Sun. The Moo Duk Kwan split as a result in 1963-65, half becoming Tae Kwon Do Moo Duk Kwan, and the other half remaining Tang Soo Do/Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan... That's what the Moo Duk Kwan is... Master Jason Powlette5th Dan, Tang Soo Do--Tang Soo!!!
karatekid1975 Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Amen, Jason. Dang! You make me miss TSD (which I do anyway ) Tang Soo! Laurie F
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