Yongmudo
용무도A Korean hybrid art from 2001, assembled by professors of seven martial arts departments at Yong In University. The year 1953 belongs to the university.
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About Yongmudo
Yongmudo is a Korean hybrid martial art assembled in 2001 by professors of Yong In University; Kim Jeong-haeng is named as its founder. The name means literally "the way of dragon fighting" — yong is dragon, mu martial, do way. Its origin is untypical for a modern martial art. Behind it stands not one master with a vision of his own but an institution: Yong In University was founded in 1953 as a judo school and gradually added departments of taekwondo, kumdo, hapkido, ssireum, boxing and wrestling. Seven departments under one roof meant seven separate specialisms — and Yongmudo arose as an attempt to put them back together into a single discipline. The content matches. Throws and groundwork come from judo, further gripping technique from wrestling, kicks and strikes from taekwondo, and joint locks from hapkido. It is not an eclectic mixture but an assembled syllabus in which every component has a documented origin in a particular department. One common error is worth flagging in a catalogue: the year 1953, routinely given for Yongmudo, is the date the university was founded, not the art. Forty-eight years lie between the two. Before its name settled, the art was also called Kukmodo.
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