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| 1st American awarded Cho Dan in Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan |
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| Grandmaster Drouillard was the 1st American ever awarded a Cho Dan by the late Grandmaster Kee Hwang. |
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| When and where did Grandmaster Drouillard earn his Blue Belt? |
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| He earned his Blue Belt in 1957 while in the Army, stationed in South Korea. |
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| When and where did Grandmaster Drouillard open his club? |
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| When he returned home to Michigan in 1960, he opened his club in the downriver Detroit city of Wyandotte at the local YMCA. That club was another milestone for Grandmaster Drouillard as it was the first Moo Duk Kwan school established in America. Still active in Tang Soo Do, he continues to teach in Dearborn, Michigan. |
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Tang - Defend and strike or offense/defense
Soo - Hand (NOT open hand, that is "Soo Do")
Do - Way of
Tang Soo Do - The way of the open hand to defend and strike |
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Pyong - Well balanced, calm, and peaceful
Ahn - Safe, confident, and comfortable
Pyong Ahn - Peaceful Confidence |
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| Grandmaster Drouillard Dan# and rank? |
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Master Collins Sr:
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Office: Chief Instructor
Dan# 21336
Rank - 7th Dan |
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Master Collins Jr:
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Office: President/Founder
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Rank - 7th Dan |
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Master John T Lyle III:
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Office: Vice President
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Rank: 6th Dan |
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Master Michael Tullier:
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Office: Regional Director
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Office: General Secretary
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Rank: 5th Dan |
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Master Kyle Martin:
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Office: Chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee
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| 1st woman promoted to rank Master (Sabomnim) |
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Master Marcie Clem:
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Grandmaster Kang UK Lee:
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| When and where was Grandmaster Lee born? |
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Place: Seoul
Date: 8/24/1936 |
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| When did Grandmaster Lee start studies? What was his age? |
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| Who was Grandmaster Lee's instructor and where did the lessons take place? |
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| Grandmaster Kwang Kee and the government transportation school |
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| Why did Grandmaster Lee have to take a break from his studies and when did he start up again? |
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| Korean war that broke out in 1950 and started back up again after the war ended in 1952 |
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| When did Grandmaster Lee begin his lifetime vocation as a full time civilian instructor in Tang Soo Do? |
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| When and where was Supreme Grandmaster Kwang Kee? |
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November 9, 1914
Jang Dan, Kyong Ki province of Korea |
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| What two martial arts did Supreme Grandmaster Kwang Kee study in school? |
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| What forced Hwang Kee to flee for his life and escape Korea? |
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Age of Japanese occupation
In 1909, Japan occupied the Korean peninsula and forbid any martial art practice/studies |
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| When and where did Hwang Kee go when he escaped Korea? |
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| 1936 and North of Manchuria(China) |
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| When and where did Supreme Grandmaster Kwang Kee founded Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan? |
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| Seoul, South Korea and November 9th, 1945 |
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| What did Supreme Grandmaster Kwang Kee buy as a world wide training place to practice his art? |
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| What did Supreme Grandmaster Kwang Kee say the reason why people study Tang Soo Do? |
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| Develop every aspect of self |
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| When did Supreme Grandmaster Kwang Kee die? |
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| Degree, holder of color belt under Midnight Blue belt. |
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| The brotherhood and school of stopping inner and outer conflict, and developing virtue according to the way of teh worthy hand |
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Moo - Military/Brotherhood/Prevent Conflict
Duk - Knowledge/Virtue
Kwan - School or institute
Moo Duk Kwan - Institute of material virtue |
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| Why our "Black Belt" is Midnight Blue and not black? |
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Midnight Blue represents maturity, respect, honor and infinity and a never-ending ability to continually improve. Black means final (ending) with no room to improve.
A practitioner of Tang Soo Do must never be satisfied or complacent. Rather, he/she must continually strive to be better. Black symbolizes the mastering of everything in that the color cannot be changed by adding any other color. After World War II, Grandmaster Hwang Kee changed the highest ranking black to midnight blue from the Japanese’s designated black. This change was to make understood that it is possible to continue adding more and more color to blue, rendering it darker and darker thereby implying that we must not become stagnate in our physical, mental and spiritual ability. Also, that no matter what stage of life we are experiencing, there is always room for growth; contrary to the symbolic statement made by the color black that cannot be changed implying that a student had reached their full growth and potential as a black belt. The term "black belt" is still used, however, with the terms black belt and midnight blue belt representing the same recognition of rank. |
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| What type of ranking system do the black belts have? |
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A Dan System
Definition of Dan: Degree, Holder of Midnight Blue Belt (Black Belt in other styles) |
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| Ready Stance/Ready Position |
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| Front Stance/Foward Position |
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| Back Stance/Tilted Back Position |
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| Horse Stance/Horse Rider Position |
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| Sparring/Face to face drill |
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| One Step Sparring/One step techniques |
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| Breaking (boards)/smashing |
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| Above Upper Lip/Philtrum (striking point) |
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| Solar Plexus/Pit of the stomach (striking point) |
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