The Kwans of Tang Soo Do A New Look at Old Traditions

This book is for serious Korean martial art students, Instructor and Master Instructor that want to know everything about Tang Soo Do’s (and thus Tae Kwon Do) creation, evolution and historical ties to ancient Korean martial arts such as Kwon Bup, Yae Kyun, Subahk and the hwarang and to more modern styles from Okinawa and Japan. The Kwans of Tang Soo Do includes the the dates, places and names of the Okinawa and Japanese instructors that taught displaced Koreans as well as the names of the founders and the founding dates and locations of the Korean Kwans that taught Tang Soo Do and Tang Soo Do’s influence on the evolution of the Post War Korean martial arts as well as Japanese Karate, Chinese Chuan Fa. The Kwans of Tang Soo Do explains how the Tang Soo Do Kwans became the largest and most influential organizations of the post World War II martial arts community and Tang Soo Do’s journey from the teachers of the post war and their early Kwans in an agricultural based country all the way to Tang Soo Do’s journey to the Olympic games as Tae Kwon Do.