Kyong Gong Sul Bope

Grandmaster "Iron" Kim demonstrates Kyong Gong Sul Bope (flying side kick). He has done this jumping from the equivalent of an 11-story building and landing without injury on a sloped surface below.

Programs for Kids and Juniors

At the School of Oom Yung Doe children and youth are taught martial arts as a balanced way to build physical strength, mental health, self-defense skills and emotional stability. This helps them succeed athletically, academically, and socially.

Weapons Training at Oom Yung Doe

Through proper weapons practice the student can develop five times faster than with empty hand movement alone. Weapons training can dramatically build strength, coordination and mental focus.

Total Body Conditioning

A Traditional Moo Doe practitioner can accomplish in twenty minutes what would normally take hours in the gym. In one movement the student is working many muscle groups in every area of the body that would take a range of different machines to replecate.

The 8 Styles of Oom Yung Doe

Oom Yung Doe teaches the eight main styles of East Asian Martial Arts. Students may focus on one of the styles or earn their black belt in all eight. Each style devolopes the body in a particular way and has its own set of benefits.

Self Defense for Everyone

Oom Yung Doe students are taught to react quickly and explosively , immediately turning the tables on any aggressor. Using the strength of their entire body to powerfully strike, manipulate joints, or disable an opponent.

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Different from Other Exercise

Oom Yung Doe is different than other forms of exercise.

Oom Yung Doe is the most comprehensive, balanced, and efficient form of exercise. Oom Yung Doe is far more complete. No form of development is as complete as Moo Doe, mentally or physically. It is easy to see this when individuals dedicated to other forms of development try Oom Yung Doe and find many areas that they have never worked, ways of moving they have never tried and weaknesses that they didn’t know they had. Most forms of exercise only work a small number of the body’s many … [Read More...]

Different from Other Martial Arts

All East Asian martial arts come from the root of traditional moo doe and still retain elements of that strength. All martial arts have a part of moo doe, but moo doe is very, very deep and is far beyond most of what you see taught in this country. Most schools in this country and even much of the world teach only a small percentage of what traditional martial arts has to offer. Moo doe is linear and circular, upper and lower body, fast and slow, aggressive and graceful. This is because … [Read More...]

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