Understanding Soo bahk Do Conditioning & Stances

Series Summary

Soo Bahk Do is a combination of Korean martial arts and philosophy. Its founder Hwang Kee took principles from Chinese martial arts like Kung Fu and philosophies from Taoism and Confucianism and made a fighting style that combined steps, forms, postures, and conditioning. The basic ideal of the art is that strong spirit and body creates a strong individual, which, in turn, creates a strong and peaceful community, and in turn, a strong and peaceful world.

In this free video series, our expert Geoff Sterling will teach you how to do the martial art Soo Bahk Do. Geoff will go over conditioning and stances for Soo Bahk Do like the ready position, the front stance, the back stance, the side stance, the horse riding stance, the sparring stance the cross legged stance, and the crane stance. Geoff will talk about martial art stretches like the sock stretch, the wall sit exercise, several leg stretches, and the Kung Fu twist. Finally he will talk about strength and conditioning for Soo Bahk Do.

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Geoff Sterling and I am with Hollywood Soo Bahk Do and I am going to be talking to you today about Soo Bahk Do Buda Kwon stances. There are three basic stances. I will talk to you about some other ones and I am also going to talk to you about conditioning, the way you stretch, the way you work out your muscles that is going to be instrumental in how you adopt these techniques. If you don't stretch and you don't condition it's pointless, you are probably going to end up hurting yourself and you don't want that. If you do this thing right and you stretch out and warm up you are actually going to live a prolonged active life. Soo Bahk Do is for a very long healthy life for longevity and wellbeing both spiritually, physically and for your wellbeing. A little bit of background about me and how I started training. I actually did not get into karate until I was older. I was active as a youth, football, wrestling teams in high school and I always loved the karate movies about Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal watched all of those and tried to emulate them before I officially trained. I used to watch the movies and play around with my friends, do some fights and stuff like that and when I officially started training when I was 18 before I graduated high school I found this place in San Diego, California, where I spent my junior high school years and David Kenyan is a wonderful coach. He is a seventh degree black belt in Soo Bahk Do Kwon. He trains under the grand master of the art which is H.C. Kwon which I have had the pleasure of meeting several times and his father Won Ki actually basically founded the style of Soo Bahk Kwon Do and he founded it off of an ancient manual which he discovered in his research called Moui Domo Tongi and it is over 350 years old and that is all the techniques that karate is derived from. I have had a chance to represent Soo Bahk Do Kwon on the show of Final Fuu. I was selected out of 2,000 applicants and I was selected number 30 and out of half the competition I came in third so it was pretty cool. Anyway thank you for watching and than you to Krashi Najar who is the chief instructor of Soo Bahk Do who I have trained under and we will show you these how to videos."