Korean Martial Arts Styles, training, techniques and videos.

Korean Fighting Styles Videos

fightauthority.com features

Featured Video: Martial arts karate taekwando punch

Martial arts karate taekwando punch...
View Video
 

Top Korean Martial Arts Videos

Tang Soo Do - 1994 - Hyung Grand Championships - 3 of 3
Tang Soo Do, Dan Grand Championship Hyungs, part 3 of 3 1994, USTSDMDK Fed. National Championships,...

Ground Fighting: Hwa Rang Do® Chief Master Taejoon Lee
During Hwa Rang Do's® Korea Trip in 2004, Chief Master Lee woos and wows the crowd with a myriad of...

Martial arts karate taekwando punch
Martial arts karate taekwando punch

Taekwon-do Training
My instructor training and competing over the years

Techniques and Styles of Korean Martial Arts

Korean Martial Arts are the martial arts that are native to, or were adapted and modified by, Korea. Some known Korean martial arts are Hapkido, Kuk Sool Won, Taekwondo, and Tang Soo Do. Ho Kuk Mu Sul is also a combination martial art combining several different Korean martial arts. There has also been a revival of Korean sword arts as well as knife fighting and archery.
Modern Korean martial arts - These Japanese arts were introduced to Korea during the occupation or brought to Korea by Koreans who had studied in Japan. (Korean martial arts were banned. but survived through underground teaching and folk custom) Ancient books like the Mu Ye Do Bo Tong Ji became popular study material for Korean martial artists, and influenced the development of many modern Korean martial arts. Although martial arts like taekwondo and tangsudo have some mixed with Japanese version of Chinese martial arts karate. In a similar manner, hapkido developed from Daito Ryu, but also with influences from traditional Korean and Chinese martial arts, into a distinctively Korean martial art.
Hapkido   [techniques]

Hapkido is a Korean martial art and aims to be an effective form of self-defense. Hapkido employs joint locks, pressure points, throws, kicks, and other strikes. Hapkido practitioners train to counter the techniques of other martial arts as well as common "unskilled" attacks. There is also a range of traditional weapons including short stick, cane, rope, sword and staff which vary in emphasis depending on the particular tradition examined.
Tang Soo Do   [techniques]

Tangsoodo or Tang Soo Do is an empty handed, traditional Korean martial art of self defense. For other uses see Tang Soo Do (disambiguation).
 

Your are currently browsing this site with Internet Explorer 6 (IE6).

Your current web browser must be updated to version 7 of Internet Explorer (IE7) to take advantage of all of template's capabilities.

Why should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7? Microsoft has redesigned Internet Explorer from the ground up, with better security, new capabilities, and a whole new interface. Many changes resulted from the feedback of millions of users who tested prerelease versions of the new browser. The most compelling reason to upgrade is the improved security. The Internet of today is not the Internet of five years ago. There are dangers that simply didn't exist back in 2001, when Internet Explorer 6 was released to the world. Internet Explorer 7 makes surfing the web fundamentally safer by offering greater protection against viruses, spyware, and other online risks.

Get free downloads for Internet Explorer 7, including recommended updates as they become available. To download Internet Explorer 7 in the language of your choice, please visit the Internet Explorer 7 worldwide page.