What Is Kuk Sool?

Williston Martial Arts Center is a member of United Mirae Kuk Sool. Kuk Sool is a system of studying the entirety of the traditional martial arts of Korea, encompassing 5,000 years of Korean martial history.  Because of this, Kuk Sool is comprehensive and the curriculum contains much of one might expect to see in a martial art,  plus much more..

 

What do we teach?

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The below black belt curriculum (white, yellow, blue, red, brown, brown-black) contains many different new and more challenging versions of the techniques listed below.

  • Kicking

  • Hand Strikes

  • Pressure Points

  • Joint Locks

  • Throws

  • Acrobatics and safe falling

 

 

The Kuk Sool curriculum includes traditional Korean martial arts weapons, beginning at white belt with jool bong or "nunchucks" as they are more commonly known and then progressing with the following weapons as a student becomes more advanced.

  • Staff

  • Sword

  • Short Staff

  • Spear

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The practice of Kuk Sool has many benefits outside of the practical self-defense skills which form the curriculum, to which both new and seasoned practitioners can attest.  These include:

  • Extending physical ability as the body ages

  • Increasing memory capacity

  • Improving flexibility

  • Learning perseverance, self-control,and compassion

  • Teaching good manners, safe behaviors, and respect for everyone regardless of physical ability, race, politics or religion