The usual sport with sword is to train and fight how strong, fast and correct you make attacking movements on one line.
Whereas hankumdo, formed by 24 movements based on the Korean consonants and vowels, is a national, self-defence sword technique created by Myong Jae-nam after a long arrangement. Its characteristics is in one word that it is a three dimensional sport, not two dimensional sport on a line.

Every movement contains attack and defence movements together. The movements of blocking, cutting and stabbing are connected smoothly.
As other sports, the unity of movements and breath is very important as well as the accuracy in hankumdo.
If you use hankumdo in an emergency, you are asked to train it slowly, constantly and diligently to make accurate movements, because the sword and your body should be united as one and the sword be used as quick as a flash of lightening.

Our sword-style is heavily influenced by the late master Han Si-hwan. He taught traditional Korean swordsmanship for more than ten years at Sangmukwan. Unfortunately master Han died in 2005. Master Han was one of the first hapkido students of Myung Jae-nam and later became a 9th degree black belt.