Front Kick in Tang Soo Do Martial Arts

Series Summary

Believed to be a Korean style of Japanese Karate, Tang Soo Do is loosely translated as the “way of the empty hand.” It is difficult to pinpoint the exact founder of this martial art, one of the most famed Grandmasters is Hwang Kee. One of his students founded The World Tang Soo Do Association in 1982. This form of martial arts can be traced back to the time between 18 and 57 BC. During these times, there were many wars between the three kingdoms of Korea and a method of martial art known as Soo Bakh was used as a method of self-defense during warfare. This and many other forms of martial arts successfully contributed to the development of Tang Soo Do.

In this series of videos, you will learn the basics of Tang Soo Do from a trained instructor. Learn the basic front kick and high block used to defend yourself. Get tips on the more modern in-to-out block or the basic rear elbow strike. Learn how to throw concentrated kicks and challenge yourself with the spinning hook kick. The breaking technique is a basic of Tang Soo Do, and you can see our expert demonstrate this technique appropriately. Learn how to use the basic kicks, blocks, and sparring to defend yourself in the practice of Tang Soo Do martial art.

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Kelly and Adam from South Florida Tang Soo Do coming to you from Muse Art in Hollywood, Florida. On behalf of ExpertVillage.com we would like to welcome you. Tang Soo Do is a traditional Korean art, we may blend a lot of traditional techniques and more modern techniques and what we’re going to demonstrate today is a basic front kick, which most martial arts have. In this technique, we’re going to start with just in a normal hu kul ja seh, which is a fighting stance in Korean, he’s going to chamber, then kick, and then re-chamber. All the kicks have 3 parts. In the chamber, the knee comes up to the center line using the ball of his foot with his toes pointed back and then he’s going to pull back in. and you’re going to noticed that his hips are when the chamber should be square and then this is a thrusting front kick, so the hips will thrust out and then will come back square. So again, starting from our fighting stance, this is a rear leg front kick, he goes chamber – kick – chamber and then back down. As you go, you can go higher and higher and get faster and faster. If I demonstrate, you can make that go high, middle, low. You’re going to practice this on a pad and then eventually to show yourself how much power you’ve learned to generate, you can do it against a board."