Is this style of martial arts similar to TaeKwonDo or TangSooDo?
Historically, yes. SooBahk was almost the first official name in the ancient Chinese and Korean history books. Its name had disappeared for about 36 years in the early 20th century during the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula. Right after independence, some martial artists began to teach the people of Korea SooBahk under the name TangSoo (Chinese Tang dynasty’s bare hand fighting techniques, probably from Okinawa-te, pronounced ‘karate’ same as present Japanese empty hand fighting techniques.) Before TKD emerged so noticeably in the early 1970s, the name TSD had been a common name for ‘bare hand fighting techniques’ as in most of the then-Korean language dictionaries. Compared to TKD, with its manpower mostly provided by the people from TSD, backing from the military-oriented government, and easily being a modernized sport like that of Japanese Judo in the Olympics, TSD had to be scattered to foreign countries. In the mid-1980s in the USA, with the release of the old forms re
