Sun Sonkut Tulgi
Literally: straight fingertip thrust
Also known as: Straight Fingertip Thrust
A thrust with straight, tightly closed fingertips driven directly forward at the face or throat; in ITF Taekwon-Do from 7th gup.
Quick Facts
⚠️ Common Mistakes
The fingers are not straight enough, the preparatory position is wrong, or the body weight does not transfer into the thrust, so it loses power.
Katas containing this technique
About
Sun sonkut tulgi is in ITF Taekwon-Do a thrust with straight, tightly closed fingertips driven directly forward. Sun sonkut means straight fingertip, tulgi thrust. It is aimed at the middle to high level, at sensitive targets such as the face or throat. In the grading syllabus of the New Zealand club Tiger Taekwon-Do it belongs to green stripe level (7th gup). It differs from opun sonkut tulgi, a thrust with flat fingertips, which appears for example in the tuls Ge-Baek and Choong-Jang. It occurs in five ITF tuls, among others in Do-San (6th movement), Won-Hyo (12th movement) and Yul-Gok (29th and 31st movement); in the 31st movement of Yul-Gok, according to the Kildare Taekwondo breakdown, it is driven forward after stepping into an L-stance. It is also in Hwa-Rang (16th movement) and Choong-Moo (22nd movement).