Purple Belt
1- Techniques
Legs
Jump Spinning Hook, Axe, and Crescent Kicks
Inverted Roundhouse Kick
Foot Sweep
Cartwheel Kick (Lead and Trailing Leg)
Jumping Double Front Kick
Flying Back Kick
Spinning Front Kick
Hands
Circular Punching Techniques (Jab, Cross, Hook, Uppercut)
Jumping Haymaker Punch
Spinning Elbow
Jump Spinning Elbow/Back Fist
Jumping Downward/Slashing Elbow
Blocks
Hooking Block
Knife Hand Twin Forearm Block
Double Forearm Block
Stances
X-stance (High and Low)
Flamingo Stance
Concepts
Using the Flamingo to chase, evade, and surprise sparring opponent.
Advancing from Flamingo to Shield block, and Vice Versa
Kick Catching- Throwing the Heel
Lock and Toss
Clinching Fundamentals
Single Collar Clinching (Half Clinch)
Elbow Centering in the Clinch
Aggressive/Dominant Handling in the Clinch
Throwing opponent from the Clinch
Combinations
From Flaming Stance- Roundhouse, Hook, Side Kick
Jab, Cross, Roundhouse- Flamingo afterwards with a pause- Side kick High, Power Side Kick Mid (All without putting the foot down after the Flamingo)
2- Self-defense
Full Nelson
Rhino
Shirtgrab
Rear Naked Choke
3- Breaking
Legs- Spinning Back Kick
Hands- Rear Elbow
4- Form
Yul-Guk
Yul Gok (“Chestnut valley”) is the pseudonym of the great philosopher and scholar Yi I (1536- 1584). Nicknamed the “Confucius of Korea”, He was a revered politician and reformer. It is said that by the age of seven he had finished his lessons in the Confucian classic. He passed the Civil Service literary examination at the age of 13. After 3 years of studying Buddhism he came back to civilization and passed special exams with top honors for writing a winning thesis titled Cheondochaek “Book on the Way of Heaven” regarded as a literary masterpiece. In this writing he displayed knowledge of history, Confucian philosophy of politics, and showed his profound knowledge of Taoism.
He served in various positions in government from the conviction that a righteous government could be achieved. As a social reformer he did not completely agree with the dualistic Neo-Confucianism teachings. Rather than focusing on inner spiritual perception, this practical approach valued external experience and learning. He was well known for his foresight about national security. He proposed to draft to reinforce the army against a possible Japanese attack. His proposal was rejected by the central government, but his worry was found to be well-founded soon after his death, during the Imjin war.
According to legend, he had a pavilion built near the ford of the Imjin River and instructed his heirs to set it ablaze when the king had to flee northward from Seoul, to provide a guiding beacon. This would have taken place during Japan’s’ invasions of Korea during the Imjin war.
The 38 movements in Yul Gok refer to his birthplace on the 38th latitude. Its diagram is the Chinese character for Scholar. It looks like a plus sign with a line below it.
The five judging criteria for Hyungs(forms) are stance, technique, power, concentration, chamber.
5- Knowledge
Flag of South Korea
1-The flag of South Korea is called the Taegeuk-gi .It has three parts: a white rectangular background, a red and blue Taegeuk in the center, and four black trigrams. The flag’s background is white, which represents peace and purity. The circle in the middle is derived from the Chinese philosophy of yin-yang and represents the balance of the universe. The blue section represents the negative cosmic force, and the red section represents the opposing positive cosmic forces.
The trigrams together represent the principle of movement and harmony. Each trigram represents one of the four classical elements. They are Geon, Ri, Gam, and Gon:
-The first on the left corner is 3 solid lines is Geon- with associated meanings of Heaven, Spring, East, Humanity, Father and Justice.
-The Second on the bottom left corner is 2 solid lines with a broken one in the middle is Ri with meanings of Sun, Autumn, South, Justice, Daughter, and Fire.
-The 3rd is on the top right corner and it has 2 broken lines with a solid line in the middle and it is Gam with associations of Moon, Winter, North, Intelligence, Son, Water, and Wisdom.
-The 4th is on the bottom right corner and all 3 lines are broken. It is Gon, with meanings of Earth, Summer, West, Courtesy, Mother, and Vitality.
2-In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang (“dark—bright”) describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary (rather than opposing) forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts. Everything has both yin and yang aspects, (for instance shadow cannot exist without light). Either of the two major aspects may manifest more strongly in a particular object, depending on the criterion of the observation.
Korean Martial Arts
1. Tang Soo Do “The Way of the Chinese Hand” is a Korean martial art incorporating fighting principles from Subak, as well as Northern Chinese Kung Fu. The techniques of what is commonly known as Tang Soo Do combine elements of Shotokan Karate, Subak, Taekkyon, and Kung Fu.
2. Kuk Sool Won translates to “National Martial Art Association” and despite often being shortened to “Kuk Sool”. It was founded as a martial arts system and not merely as a martial arts style. Kuk Sool Won does not consider itself limited to any single discipline. It attempts to be a comprehensive study of all traditional Korean martial arts.
3. Hapkido. Hap means “coordinated”- ki describes internal energy, and- do means “way”, yielding a literal translation of “joining-energy-way”. It is most often translated as “the way of coordinating energy”, Hapkido is a form of self-defense that employs similar joint locks, grappling and throwing techniques to other martial arts, as well as kicks, punches, and other striking attacks. There is also the use of traditional weapons, including knife, sword, rope, nunchaku, cane, short stick, and middle-length staff.