What is TaeKeukKwon?
Taekeukkwon is the Korean word for what is widely known as taichi. There are many opinions regarding the origin of taekuekkwon (太極), but none of these is officially confirmed yet. Universally Jinga taekuekkwon is considered as the origin of the form of today. Taekuekkwon is divided into Jinga, Yangga, Muga and Oga taekuekkwon as main taekuekkwon styles.
Jinga taekuekkwon was a military arts inherited among the Jin family. But an outsider, Master Yang No Seon entered the Jin family as a worker in order to learn taekuekkwon at all costs.
There, he trained it by himself watching their taekuekkwon secretly.Later on, as the great taekuekkwon Master Jin Jang Hong was touched by Yang’s enthusiasm, he took Yang as his student. In this way, the instruction of the keeping taekuekkwon only in his family was broken.
Yang No Seon learned from his Master Jin that he would get a great success only in the condition that he himself found his own taekuekkwon style. After being told it by Master Jin, he did his best to invent Yanga taekuekkwon originated from Jinga taekuekkwon. After Yang opened his own sportschool in Peking, taekuekkwon became worldwide well-known and famous.
SangMooKwan en taekuekkwon
SangMooKwan teaches hapkido, hankido, hankumdo en taekuekkwon as main items of training. Hapkido is a martial arts, composed of singular training based on energy, which is spread by master Choi Yong Sool, who came back to Korea after having trained in Japan after the liberation of Korea. In a sense hapkido is introduced from Japan.
And less well-known, hankido and hankumdo are our own perfect martial arts developed by and originated with Master Myung Jae Nam from hapkido. These martial arts are more approached to the stream of the nature, which is a fundamental principal of the Oriental martial arts, than the existing hapkido.
Taekuekkwon helps a lot to understand and learn our hankido and hankumdo in a proper way. Because the basic principal of taekuekkwon is very similar with the one of hankido, it provides a good method for learning the basic movements of hankido.
By the consequence, SangMooKwan teaches taekuekkwon in a special program. We teach both Jinga and YanggaTaekuekkwon
Yangga Taekuekkwon of our school is an original YanggaTaekuekkwon of more than 200 years tradition. This taekuekkwon is inherited as a genuine masterpiece of the director, Sang Shin Jeon, who was a close student of Pil Seo Ik who came to Korea during the war in China. YanggaTaekuekkwon, inherited by Pil Seo Ik and by the director Sang Shin Jeon demands slow movements harmonized with slow breaths all the time. First of all, slow breaths provoke sufficient lung movements which allow us to have healthy bodies and further more to raise the basic ability to produce power and energy in an instant. In an emergency, you are supposed to take control over an opponent by using all these in one moment.
Jinga Taekuekkwon is taught through our affiliation with the Korean Taekkuekkwon Federation run by master Seo Myeong Won. Through him we have direct connection with the masters of Jinga in the Chinese Chen-village.
If you train taekuekkwon until you can use it properly, you will understand our hankido and hankumdo more clearly and you will finally learn it by experience as the absolute art of self-protection.
