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What is Gum Do?
The sword martial art has developed
along with five thousand years of history of the Korean
race, and the use of the Sword (Gumsul or Gumbup) has been
designed, and its usefulness began to be recognized and
turned and turned into a multi-functional martial art for
guardianship, survival, and self training.
Gum Do is the traditional sword martial art that is handed
down from and interpreted from the old form of the martial
art from of the martial art from the modern view point also
returning and reviving the Gumbup introduced in Mooyedobotongji,
which is the best existing martial art related text book.
i.e. Gum Do is a way to discover a real human being through
self-discovery in training through the communication between
body and soul, by way of the sword martial art of Gum Do,
which means Korea. At the present moment, Gum Do, as the
Korean traditional sword martial art that implies the core
of the use of sword in Oriental martial art, has succeeded
in popularizing the real sword training and is trying hard
to introduce Gum Do as a living martial art with the purpose
of global zing the Korean sword martial art.
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The Educational Principles
in Gum Do
- Helping people recognize the root
of Korean traditional martial art, we let people have a
new appreciation of tradition and practice the independent,
creative and healthy martial art.
- We concentrate on the education of the whole
man through the educational idea of Shim shin- hap ki gum,
which means the unity of body, soul, and the sword.
- We make the traditional sword art flourish
as a lifelong martial art and provide the foundation of
a healthy person
- We systematize the traditional Gumbup in
a positive and scientific way and perform traditional physical
education and martial art.
- We practice education of courtesy and manners
to raise the trainees to be a warm-hearted human being through
self-cultivation.
- We study and criticize the traditional sword
martial art and foreign martial art on a rational basis
to establish the identity of Gum Do.
- We efficiently maximize the physical activities
through the sound utilization of spare time and train with
the purposes of character building of Wisdom, Virtue and
health.
- We provide the opportunity of self-reflection
and self-discovery by teaching Gum Do in a way that the
trainees practice 'Movement in Stillness' and ' Unity of
Sword and Zen'
- We study the profound theories of sword martial
art that are provided by practical experiences and raise
the protectors of traditional martial art.
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Merits of Training Gum Do
Continuous training of Gum Do can
bring about alertness, cooperation, short-term concentration,
and development in intellectual capability due to effective
stimulation for the left-brain and physical strength Gum Do can serve as a sound and healthy pastime for
a wide range of people of all ages regardless of gender,
time, and place You can develop a well-mannered and moderate
personality through courtesy and morality education and
change into an ambitious person who can withstand inequity
and immorality. You can understand the value of tradition
and be proud of the culture and the history of Korean race.
Gum Do is a practical martial art and can also be
used for self-protection, military and peace keeping.
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