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Report: Rights and Responsibilities

Taeguek Sam Jang

• Symbol is Yi meaning fire. Through Taekwondo training, you have developed physical strength, and inner power. Now is the stage where the more effort you put out, the more your enthusiasm burns. New movements in Taegeuk Sahm jang are back stance, knife hand strike, knife hand block. The combinations of block-punch and block-kick require quick speed and the ability to coordinate bodily parts to create integral forces. Put speed in defense and power in attacks. For the 6th Gup.

• Self Defense: B1-5, Wrist Locks

• Terminology

• 60 pushups

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Palgwe Sam Jang

•       Fire: The third palgwe form represents the energy of fire or the sun. This form should be performed with warmth and enthusiasm. This form represents the characteristics of fire such as variety and passion. The movements should be executed with quick, rhythmic, unpredictable pace and styling.

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Hyung Do San

�        Do-San is a pseudonym of the patriot Ahn Chang-Ho (1876 - 1938). The 24 movements represent his entire life which he devoted to furthering education in Korea and the Korean independence movement. Ahn Chang-Ho opposed the use of military force to seek independence. He was a major force in the Korean Independence movement; he was particularly known for maintaining the Korean educational system during occupation. He was among the first Koreans to emigrate the US in 1903.

�        In 1907 he returned to his Korea to begin the Sinminhoe (New People’s Society). Sinminhoe sought independence through education, business, and culture. A year later this organization founded Taesong School to provide Korean children with education of Korean Nationalism.

�        At the end of WWI To-San returned to America to pressure Wilson into speaking on behalf of Korean Independence.

�        In 1919 To-San helped set up the Provisional Government in exile in Shanghai. They drew up a Constitution providing for personal freedom and abolished the nobility class.

�        On March 1, 1919 the provisional government declared Korean Independence.