Haidong Gumdo
Haidong Gumdo (Haedong Gumdo (海東劍道 "Korean way of the sword") arose in the 1980s from the desire to reconstruct a native Korean "battlefield" style of swordsmanship, moving away from the Kendo heritage of Gumdo. In this sense it qualifies as a type of historical martial arts reconstruction in the wider sense, but while the weapons used are based on historical Korean templates, the techniques are not derived from historical manuals but are based on the 1970s Shim Gum Do. The "historical" emphasis of the discipline was also accompanied with some false claims of authentic lineage of the system. Kim Jeong-ho had represented that in 1963 he began training in Korean sword under a monk named Jang Park San. Based on this premise, Kim developed the World Hae Dong Kumdo Association. During legal proceedings in the 1990s it was revealed that Hae Dong Kumdo was developed solely by Kim's own design integrating Gi Cheon esoteric practices and Shin Kumdo.
Practitioners of Haidong Gumdo engage in the practice of basic techqniues (kibon), forms (geompeob or pumsae), step sparring (yaksuk daeryun), sparring (hada), energy building exercises (qi gong) and cutting practice (begi).
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