DYNAMIC TANG SOO DO KJN Patricio Saavedra

DYNAMIC TANG SOO DO

Kjn Patricio Saavedra

I was looking on Facebook when I came across Master John Correlje's post asking for help with his book, he needed someone who knew the Tan Tui or Damtoi forms in Korean. The tantui are a series of short forms 12 in total that belong to Wushu and can also be found in many styles of northern China. GM Hwang Kee learned these forms during his 14-month stay in China when he trained with Yang Kuk Jin and later trained for some time with Li De Jiang who was a Quanfa (kung fu) instructor. These forms strongly influenced Soo Bahk Do so I am interested in studying them. For that reason I offered to help Master Correlje in his book. It was a very enriching experience to be able to cooperate with him. At the time I received the complete book in my house sent by Master John Correlje from Holland in gratitude for my help. There I could see the quality of the material that was in this book, during all the years of practicing martial arts I have had many books, but this book is simply the book of books on tang soo do. It contains a history of all the masters who created the forms and who somehow influenced these forms to become part of tang soo do. In addition, in some cases it contains more than one version of some forms, since it depends on the organization, sometimes the forms have changes. The drawings are very good, they help you to see step by step the development of the forms in question. I think that every serious practitioner of tang soo do should have this book which has the cooperation of different teachers from different parts of the world. Then the teacher John Correlje asked me if he could translate the book into Spanish, which I obviously agreed, now they will be able to have this book in their language and be able to understand it even more. They won't regret it.