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Summary: Watch as a Tang Soo Do expert teaches the basic front kick technique in this free martial arts video.

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Kelly Goodwin Kelly Goodwin is the head instructor of South Florida Tang Soo Do and holds the rank of Sam Dan (3rd degree Black) with the World Tang Soo Do Association (WTS... read more

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by joesteph

On an intro page that lists all the videos in this series, there is a statement that Tang Soo Do may be translated the same as the Japanese, "the way of the empty hand." I don't know why it says this. T'ang or Tang is the Chinese reference, and Tang Soo Do is translated as "the way of China hand," acknowledging the Chinese martial art influence. The Japanese reference to karate ("kara-te" ) was originally "China hand" as well, but in a nationalistic spirit, it was changed to "empty hand." A disagreement with those who wanted to rename Tang Soo Do after the oldest known Korean martial art resulted in a break within Tang Soo Do, to form Soo Bahk Do. I study Soo Bahk Do under a chief instructor who had started in Tang Soo Do, then went with the change to the more traditional Korean name.

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Front Kick in Tang Soo Do Martial Arts

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.

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