Kirves Posted January 28, 2003 Posted January 28, 2003 I'm looking for a book about Korean martial arts in general, not a particular art, but the whole history and curriculum of different Korean arts. Can you recommend any?
KickChick Posted January 28, 2003 Posted January 28, 2003 http://www.gentrymartialarts.com/books/koreaoldandnew.html Or you can try http://ryukyu.com which has a good selection of Korean MA books but not one that encompasses all of them ... I would like that one myself!!
Karateka_latino Posted January 29, 2003 Posted January 29, 2003 https://www.amazon.com https://www.cfwenterprises.com Try there...
Kirves Posted January 29, 2003 Author Posted January 29, 2003 https://www.amazon.com https://www.cfwenterprises.com Try there... I've tried them. All I can find is books on a single art. And mostly just tech books like "all poomse of TKD", "HKD from white to black belt" and so on. I'd like something like Draeger's "The Martial Arts And Ways Of Japan" but on Korean arts, i.e. history of all the arts, what are their technical and philosophical differences, who-is-who in their history and so on. Not so much step-by-step basic technique descriptions, I'm not going to study them from books anyway.
SBN Doug Posted January 29, 2003 Posted January 29, 2003 Wouldn't we all! Problem is, you ask ten different masters, students, or whatever to tell you how Korean arts progressed and you get ten different answers. Everything gets especially blurred from the Japanese occupation. Kuk Sool Won - 4th danEvil triumphs when good men do nothing.
Kirves Posted January 29, 2003 Author Posted January 29, 2003 Problem is, you ask ten different masters, students, or whatever to tell you how Korean arts progressed and you get ten different answers. But that's my point. I'd like to ask 10 different masters, but there's no book where they are stating their stories, all in one place. You know there are at least a dozen contradicting versions of the history of Wing Chun kung fu, and they are each told separately in a book called Complete Wing Chun. It is great, the student of the art can read it all no matter which style he himself comes from or which story he believes. But if I want to hear the stories of Korean arts, I'll have to buy a dozen different books to get those dozen stories. And I'd probably have to buy more than a dozen books to get a dozen stories, as most of books available on Korean arts are sadly lacking in the history department, usually theres half a page or two of how the particular style was found 20-50 years ago and that's it. Then they show how to form a fist, how to punch, how to kick, how to counter a wrist grab and all the nonsense I'm not insterested in buying a book for.
KickChick Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 Got my TurtlePress catalog in mail today and as I was going through it I saw the translated book by Muye Dobo Tongji (18th century) "Martial Arts of Ancient Korea" http://www.turtlepress.com/shopexd.asp?id=229 ... and a video"Warrior Arts of Korea" http://www.turtlepress.com/shopexd.asp?id=284#more
SBN Doug Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 Sweet. I may get that video! I'm not sure about the 400 pages of ancient history, but it's well needed. Kuk Sool Won - 4th danEvil triumphs when good men do nothing.
Kirves Posted January 30, 2003 Author Posted January 30, 2003 Great! Now if we just get another similar book on the modern history of Korean arts and all is well.
KickChick Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 ... yeah, I know, I'm still looking!!! Oh and Doug, you can see a "clip" from that video too on that site!
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