Kuk Sul Do - Black Belt Promotion 9/14/2019 - Peter Keim

Chagrin Falls Kuk Sul Do Academy - 9/14/2019 Black Belt promotion. Demonstration showing traditional Kuk Sul hyung (forms), sparring, knife defense, joint locks, and board breaks.

[@paulsmith9192]

How many kuk sool are there?Kuksoolwon sool Kwan & my discipline, Kuksoolwon. Never heard of kuk sool Do.

[@peterkeim9296]

Yeah There's a lot. It's the product of the different masters from Korea breaking up and copyrighting their teaching in the USA during the wild west period of eastern martial arts blowing up in the USA. They all trained together originally though, so it's all basically the same but with slight variations in forms and techniques. 'Kuk Sool Won' was copyrighted by In Hyuk Suh, 'Kuk Sul Do' was by Master Choon S. Yang.

[@paulsmith9192]

@peterkeim9296 so they change enough so it wouldn't be,copyrighted? Are u an,instructor?

[@peterkeim9296]

@@paulsmith9192 It's just the name. All of the technique sets and forms are all called the same. ki bon soo has 15, ki cho hyung comes first, all of that. it's the same. I guess I meant trademark. The different masters practice the techniques differently. You'll see in gum moo hyung and a lot of forms how when we do things like a circle knife hand when up on one knee, we have our back bent. Kuk sool won has your back straight when doing that. It's something GM Yang said to do, and he said it was better for some reason, so we all did it. I used to be an instructor for adults, quit about a year after I got my 2nd degree blackbelt, and now I do Jiujitsu at the same place (now a blue belt)

[@esketiitstudios620]

Me and my brother went here when we were little kids in Ohio right???

[@peterkeim9296]

you got it! Jason still teaching kids, I am teaching adults now.