Haedong Kumdo - The basics: how to use your sword

[@firozsabir]

Thanks for share 🙏 🙏Haedong 🙏

[@loneronin6813]

Soon I will be moving to another state to be close to family and they happen to have a Haidong Gumdo class in that area that I'm hoping to enroll in. Due to disabilities I'm not able to keep both hands on a sword and I was wondering if it would be possible to take it up even though I can't use both hands. Any advice you may have on the matter would be greatly appreciated. I wish you all the best and thank you for the work that you do.

[@seanhayes280]

Thank you for posting this video

[@lupimali9504]

You deserve to learn some "sheer" sword skill. It's not too late, I guess.

[@몰라다임마]

Kendo is created by the best swordsmen of entire Japan in the early 20th century. Haedong Kumdo is created by two movie actors, Kim Jeongho and Na Hanil, in 1980s. Guess which one would be practical in real sword fight.

[@몰라다임마]

The only thing Haedong Kumdo (in South Korea as long as I know) is good at is cutting bamboo trees, which actually looks pretty cool though.

[@몰라다임마]

The fact is, cutting bamboo trees doesn't really have much to do with sword skills. It depends more on the design of the sword. They use blades with triangular cross section to cut bamboo trees whereas traditional katana/hwando blades have hexagon or pentagon cross section.

[@몰라다임마]

I don't think Haedong Kumdo is fake. It has its own values and is worthy enough to be trained by people all around the world. But there are also so many people whith wrong informatoon about it.

[@에어팟보단이어폰]

agree

[@몰라다임마]

@Stephen Kim nononono... what you know about Haidonggumdo is not true. It is prooved in the court of law in South Korea. There is not a single evidence that it is from the three kingdom period. The main reason Haidonggumdo is criticized by many people is that they are spreading wrong informations about their history.

[@bolgeon9014]

Nice!

[@suriib1215]

nice video

[@josepedroianni5088]

Very good your techniques. Congratulations! BoosabomNim JP.

[@AmericanPatriot447]

Thank you for sharing sir.

[@coreycollins6703]

If your training swordsmanship for “practical fighting techniques” you probably have no idea that swords are used anymore in combat. We train to better ourselves as individuals both physically and mentally as well as cultural appreciation.

[@antonioskarasulas7604]

It remains a combat art. Timing, distance, balance, coordination, flexibility, reading your opponent's intentions, etc., these are all practical combat skills contained within a good quality sword class. You can and do use all this, and more, in any fighting situation, with or without a sword. The spiritual, esoteric, aesthetic, health and cultural aspects are important for sure but please don't turn swordsmanship into nothing more than a sword dance or a moving meditation.

[@motorola9956]

He pulled the sword very far to his back, might as well get stabbed.

[@bhedrick101]

thats for warm ups. In forms you don't get your hands above the top of your head

[@에어팟보단이어폰]

Please stop learning haedong... its not practical. Just learn kendo or other something...

[@에어팟보단이어폰]

Additionally, its not traditional at all. Haedong is just a mixture of another fake martial art and some japanese swordmanships.

[@cagedraptor]

first video I've seen on this. I tend to avoid all Korean martial arts. Just Japanese or other culture martial arts with a Korean names slapped on it.... oh yeah, generally they also have high, flashy, spiny, twirlly kicking as well.

[@kurarai5136]

Haedong is more practical than kendo tho

[@kurarai5136]

@@cagedraptor well the name is written in kanji which is Chinese characters and if u read the kanji in hanja (korean Chinese characters) it results in gumdo

[@에어팟보단이어폰]

@@kurarai5136 why do you think so?

[@見伏-n4g]

Kumdo is fake,Because that have not evidence.And unnatural your outfit,that not korean traditional clothing.

[@見伏-n4g]

@Stephen Kim Your explain is not beasd on materials.

[@見伏-n4g]

@Stephen KimCan you present an ancient document that Haidong Gumdo has existed for 220-280AD?