Did you have any inspiration from say Japanese, Okinawan or Chinese martial arts weapon styles?
Actually I personally haven’t seen the other martial arts styles use the stick. Sure I’ve seen a little here and there over the years and in movies but I have never seen a martial arts club exercising and training with sticks. I did this deliberately so I would not be influenced by anything else. My intention from the beginning was to develop a unique Taekwondo weapon style that is purely a Taekwondo weapon style. Maybe somebody may look at Taekwondo Bongsul and say that it has some similarities to another style but I deliberately kept my attention away from other martial arts so that I could create this without any other outside influences. Did you make Taekwondo Bongsul more for practical fighting or did you design it for developing strength, conditioning and co-ordination? I had everything in mind. Let me explain. Taekwondo Bongsul has three parts. Each Bong within Taekwondo Bongsul firstly has an individual pattern. The idea of this individual pattern is to basically use it as a me
