Tang Soo Do Mu Duk Kwan Huh What Who?

[surgingshark]

Hi!
My friend talked me into taking a Tang Soo Do Class in a dojo run by Grandmaster Ed James (info, anyone?). I've never heard of this style before. Ever. I've previously studied Kung Fu and a bit of Karate. I'm not really a martial artist, but I AM a fight coreographer.

So I was wondering...since I am in the class already...WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST GET MYSELF INTO?

Thanks!

[hwarang]

tang soo do and mu duk kwan are styles of taekwondo - more traditional styles...i used to do mu duk kwan

also, being korean arts, you would have been taken to a dojang, not a dojo :)

[surgingshark]

Gomennasai...my Korean is rusty. Wait, not rusty, INEXISTENT. But hey, like most other martial arts, this'll probably add more than a few words in my vocabulary, eh?

So how did YOU enjoy learning Mu Duk Kwan? Any high points and low points that you found?

[hwarang]

don't know what Gomennasai means...

thank you sounds something like komsumnidar, phonetically speaking of course

mu duk kwan was alright - the one i did was very traditional, but having said that you can always learn something from any martial art, whether you have studied it before or not

i currently do hwarangdo, it seems like the hwarangdo in america is based around tang soo do, so you might be better off staying with that...

comparing the hwarangdo i do now with the mu duk kwan that i used to do, i would say mu duk kwan is a bit slow and some of the kicking techniques are a little too easy to pick

[surgingshark]

Gomennasai = Sorry [Japanese].

A little side note, the friend that dragged me into it has been studying Wing Chung for a good fifteen years now. However, I always manage to land a blow at one of his vital points whenever he's in the middle of a combo (e.g. Rolling Punches). Out of all the martial artists I know, I am the only one who can actually HIT him...and I don't even consider myself "good". Hell, I've actually taken a liking to being swept across the mat during arm lock demonstrations :-P