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Originally Posted by Hardball
How does moo duk kwan rate as far as tkd goes? Is it better or as good as ITF or WTF? Anybody here study Moo Duk Kwan? If you think it's horseshit, just tell us why? If you think it's decent, tell us that also. By-the-way, I did a search and came up empty.
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Moo Duk Kwan, (Martial Virtue School) was founded in the late 1940's by the late Hwang Kee. It's style was a mutation of Shotokan, as Hwang Kee learned all he knew about martial arts from Gichin Funakoshi's book on Shotokan, which Hwang Kee found in the Seoul Railway Station Library that he worked at.
Later Hwang Kee went to the Chung Do Kwan to train with one of Funakoshi's actual students, Won Kuk Lee. Hwang got to the level of Green Belt and then left and opened the "Moo Duk Kwan".
Then, later on, the 9 Kwan's merged to form Taekwondo. Hwang Kee was mad because he could not be boss, and resigned from Taekwondo, reforming his Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan (later he changed the name to Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan).
So today you have two Moo Duk Kwans.
1. Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan (still called Tang Soo Do by some), which is a continuum of Hwang Kee's original system, now headed by his son.
2. Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan, Korea, which was created by the majority of Hwang Kee's most senior students who wanted to merge with the other 8 Kwan's and form Taekwondo.
However, Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan officially dissolved as a martial art system when HONG, Chong Soo signed the Kwan Unity Act in the mid 1970's, and like all the Kwan's, Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan became a fraternal social friendship club and is not long a specific martial art style. Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan endorses 100% the Kukkiwon system as it's style.
So for over 30 years there has been no Moo Duk Kwan style in Taekwondo, Moo Duk Kwan played an important role in the creation of the Kukkiwon system, so today in the Kukkiwon methods is where you will find the best of Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan.
Today, Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan still exist as a social club and has it's annual celebration in Seoul every year where both members of Taekwondo, and Soo Bahk Do all gather to celebrate Moo Duk Kwan's founding.
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P.S. Moo Duk Kwan, like all Kwan.s with the exception of Oh Do Kwan has no relation with ITF. Oh Do Kwan was founded by Gen. Choi, so Oh Do Kwan is the root of ITF.