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Hwa Rang Do is Korean for "The
way of the Flowering Manhood" that was created by Joo Bang Lee and his
brother, Joo Sang Lee. This martial art teaches and encourages fighting
techniques, weapons, spiritual training, intellectual enhancement, and
artistic pursuits. It has a very involved technique structure. |
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Hwa Rang Do is a martial art
with over 4,000 techniques, as well as 108 weapons. These are taught in a
progression as a student gains sashes (items to signify skill level
attained), with many of the more difficult ones only taught after a black
sash is achieved. The "Man" idea in this title refers to an ideal man: one
of honor, strength, responsibility, and virtue. The reason for the word
"Flower" is to state that just as a flower grows and then blooms, so should
a man grow and then bloom into something beautiful. Also, just as a flower
is beautiful just by being, so too should a man be honorable, loyal, strong,
and virtuous by simply existing, without having to try to be any of these
things. Obviously, since it is in the name of the Art, this idea is central
to all aspects of Hwarangdo: one should be without needing to try to be. By
this concept a practitioner is taught to be humble, strong, and honorable. |
