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27 August, 2012

When Seasons Are Characters

 
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When Seasons Are Characters

A week or so ago, here in New Jersey, after a stretch of hot and humid days and warm rain, we had a couple of cooler days with no humidity, high temperatures in just the mid 70s Fahrenheit (about 20 Celsius) and nighttime lows at around 58F (9C). Really, it felt like fall, my favourite season, and it put me in such a good mood. I almost felt like it, the fall, was talking to me; telling me that the stress of the summer (I thought summers were supposed to be easy street for teachers) with its smaller pay cheques, chaotic (but enjoyable) trips to the beach, the crushing days of oppressive heat and humidity, etc were coming to a close and a new season, with its own set of challenges, is coming. I felt like an old friend, one I’d started to realise I was missing, had just rung me up and said she was coming for a visit and asked if I could put her up in the spare room or on the pullout sofa bed.

As people do nowadays with all sorts of social media - writers, especially - I posted on Facebook and Twitter how cool the weather was and how it offered a taste of autumn. One friend ‘liked’ my Facebook post. Two others commented. Both posted statements in an “Oh no!” sort of way stating that they didn’t want summer to go just yet. To one comment, I replied saying that I love the fall because out go the weeks of heat and humidity, in comes the cooler weather and the exciting feel of putting on that first sweatshirt, taking my son for pumpkin picking and pony rides, watching the leaves change colour and, of course, the lead up to the upcoming holiday season that begins in late autumn (Halloween) and runs into mid-winter (Valentine’s Day) with all of their sights, sounds and smells. I wouldn’t even mind a little snowfall either.

As I thought about this - and like I said, I felt like the hint of autumn was an old friend saying hello - I tried to create a list of books and movies in which the season the story is set plays a major role like it’s a character interacting with the protagonist and integral to the plot. Of course, in good stories the season or seasons have to be more than ornamental but, in many cases, once it’s established whether it’s spring or summer, winter or fall, there isn’t much to them. In a story, say, about a family going on Christmas holiday, there might be snow and a fireplace but they might just be there to establish that, yes, it is winter with the characters doing things that would be typically done in a winter holiday environment. Could that story - and I’m not thinking of any story in particular - be rewritten and be just as good if the family went on a summer beach resort instead?

Examples that popped into my head were The Body by Stephen King, Picnic by William Inge and Spike Lee’s film Do The Right Thing. For me, all of those stories couldn’t have been told in any other time of the year. Coincidentally, all of them are set in the summer but that, of course, doesn’t mean the summer is the best setting for novels and movies. That’s something to look at in another post. That all my examples are set in the summer is more likely an example of my laziness or my lack of exposure that I couldn’t immediately think of a book or movie I liked, that isn’t set in summer, whose seasonal setting made a major impact.

In The Body, which was adapted into the very successful and much loved movie Stand By Me in the mid-1980s, a group of four boys set out to find a missing body - presumed dead - of another boy. They tell their parents they’re going to camp out and, naturally, go through various adventures that betray inner fears, reveal new heroism and so on. It’s not just perfectly set for the summer because that is when they could camp out and go on an outdoor adventure. It’s perfectly set for the summer because that’s when kids are out of school and have all the time in the world to do whatever they want and that often comes with having the time for self-discovery whether brought about by looking for a missing boy, having a go at your best friend or something else.

In Picnic, it’s Labour Day and the town is gearing up for its annual town event - the picnic. There’s a stranger in town. Well, the stranger is Hal, an old college friend of Alan Seymour. Then, there are the Owens sisters - Madge and Millie. For those of you who haven’t read it or seen the film, I won’t give anything away. However, I’m sure you can imagine that there’s drama surrounding the ‘stranger’ and the two girls. Again, the season, which also happens to be summer - plays a major role. I don’t think the play would’ve worked if it were set around, say, a New Year’s Eve party; at least not in today’s world. Today, Christmas and New Year are such passing holidays. As much as people enjoy and love them, there’s almost a sense of relief when they’re done and over with. The summer, however, is something that people want to linger on. This is especially true of young people and young people who are unattached and have waited all summer for something big to happen. In the United States there’s the added pressure, if you will, of Labour Day, the social end of the summer season. So, it’s a perfect blend at this end of season town picnic that everything comes to a head for Hal and Madge.

Finally, there’s Do The Right Thing, set in a balmy New York. Spike Lee’s movie is set in Brooklyn - the beautiful ethnic blend that it is - and pits characters responding to their environment, physical and socioeconomic, in the midst of a heat wave. If a summer heat wave, with no breeze, rising temperatures and overwhelming humidity is not a perfect metaphor for uncomfortable neighbourhood tensions then I must’ve been watching a different movie. Like King’s novella and Inge’s play, summer is the only season that could’ve worked with Do The Right Thing. The spring and fall are too neutral. There are cool days, there are warmer days, there are humid days but these two seasons are too varied to serve as a viable parallel storyline. The winter, too, doesn’t work because even though there are ridiculously frigid days in New York people don’t complain about cold like they do heat and humidity. The characters in Do The Right Thing could simply bundle up and feel instant warmth. There’s only so much clothing one can remove to cool down.

So, what stories do you love that have as an unnamed character the season in which it is set? Do share. I’d love to know. And, please, for my own enlightenment, let me know of those that are set in the other three seasons. The super literary agent Donald Maass said in a conference I attended that the writer has to be detailed when writing Setting. It puts the reader into the book and gives it life. Setting, though, isn’t just the description of the landscape and physical surroundings, the sounds and smells. It’s also the unseen, but definitely, felt nuances of season.

15 August, 2012

Pumped Up For Poomsae


Pumped Up For Poomsae

In 1994, I sent an article to Taekwondo Times Magazine, Black Belt and other martial arts periodicals. In the piece, which no one picked up and published, unfortunately, I wrote about Taekwondo Poomsae (Forms) competition and wondered why there weren’t major tournaments. Sure, it was, and still is, a part of state championships and the national event but it was just another division that didn’t get its due. Sparring, of course, was the marquee event. Back then, there wasn’t a WTF (World Taekwondo Federation) Poomsae World Championship. The most, at least here in the United States, that was available were poomsae divisions at Taekwondo and open martial arts competitions. In fact, that’s still pretty much how it is but, at strictly Taekwondo events, the poomsae events are better organised and formalized so there is less subjectivity in the scoring process. This is a good thing. Even at full championships, poomsae is given more respect and gets its own day(s) for competitors to showcase their skills.

In the article, I suggested that there should be some kind of World Championship and, perhaps, poomsae competition would get into The Olympic Games as well. (Remember, I wrote the article in the early 1990s. The WTF finally ran the its first Poomsae World Championship in 2006.) Taekwondo had already been added to The Olympics, in 1988, as a demonstration sport, and became a full-fledged medal sport in 2000. It’s been a mainstay of The Olympic Games since. Having recently watched an exciting and scandal-filled women’s figure skating competition from the 1994 Winter Olympics, which inspired me, I wrote that major poomsae competition could follow the same format as Olympic Figure Skating - two rounds, with the athlete having to do a rank appropriate form for the first mandatory round and a second creative round. In the second round, each athlete would be given a theme ahead of the competition and they’d have to prepare a form that presents that theme. Taekwondo is a martial art, after all, and by definition an art is a creative pursuit.

Today, if you’re a Taekwondoist looking to compete in the WTF World Championships and WTF-recognized national championships, including related Taekwondo events run by WTF-member national governing bodies (NGBs), there is a formalized way the poomsae have to be done with an approved and accepted scoring system. There are age and rank (belt colour) divisions too. The problem with the current state of the poomsae competition lies with the black belt divisions and this is what this blog post is about.

Before I go on, in case anyone thinks I’m merely a disgruntled competitor and someone crying over spilt milk, I AM a black belt. I have sixth dan certification from my NGB, USA Taekwondo (USAT), and I am awaiting my fifth dan certification from the Kukkiwon, the global headquarters of Taekwondo. (I’ll be writing a blog post about dan certification at a later date). I have been a black belt since 1989 and I’ve also studied HapKiDo, Shotokan Karate, Koeikan Karate and Judo. I began my Taekwondo training in October 1985 and my martial arts training in June of the same year when I was studying Shotokan at the South China Athletic Association in Hong Kong. I have my own, albeit small dojang in Maplewood, New Jersey, and I used to run a school in Pompton Plains, New Jersey. I’m also the 2011 and 2012 First Masters Poomsae Division state champion for New Jersey and I finished in the top ten at the 2011 national championships. I also have a Master’s Degree in Coaching and Sports Administration and I am a certified Associate Coach with USAT. I don’t list all of this to show off. There are many Taekwondo black belts with far more impressive credentials. I list all of this so you, the reader, can trust that I have been around and have enough experience to make the suggestions and claims I am going to state below.

So, back to the problems with the black belt poomsae division. First, there is the lack of competitors. In the last two years, the number of entrants in the various poomsae divisions for black belts (1st Seniors to 3rd Masters) isn’t as large as I thought and hoped it would be. Why? Here are my guesses. Perhaps, it’s money. Entry fees are larger than they’ve ever been and travel costs (airfare, gas, train, bus, food, hotel) add up and aren’t going cheap either. This aside, I think the lack of entries has to do with the lack of promotion poomsae gets as its own entity and, from a competitor’s viewpoint, perhaps there is also a sense of not having a shot at winning a podium place, to borrow Olympic lingo. Here’s how I think this might be happening: Even though there are codified rules for how each poomsae should be done and there is a specific list of deductions each mistake is worth, poomsae competition is a ‘judging’ event and, on some level, it is still subjective. The judges do go through training and are rotated to keep them fresh and from making errors due to fatigue and what have you. The judges, though, are human and, as a result of that, they will tend to favour returning champions and/or known competitors. This isn’t unique to Taekwondo. Look at team sports. As a sports fan, I can say that it’s pretty evident that the home team gets more favorable calls than the away team and that stars, like Michael Jordan, get more calls their way than the opposing standout rookie who became a pro right out of high school.

In the current format of black belt Taekwondo poomsae competition, the divisions are broken down by age - 1st Seniors (19-30), 2nd Seniors (31-40), 1st Masters (41-50), 2nd Masters (51-60), 3rd Masters (60+). There are separate groups for men and women and different age breakdowns for team poomsae events but this blog will focus mostly on individual contests; although the ideas I present can apply also to the team events.

The problem lies within each division. First degree black belts are competing against ninth degree black belts. Using my division, 1st Masters, as an example, each competitor has to know from Taegeuk 8 (pre-black belt poomsae) to Chonkwon (7th dan poomsae) regardless of his own rank. This has negative connotations from both ends of the rank spectrum. The first dan competitor has to learn six new forms he hasn’t even been taught in his regular class. Meanwhile, the seventh dan competitor has had years of training, perfecting each one. Akin to having to cram for a test, the first dan may just choose not to compete, reducing the number of poomsae competitors entering championships. Or, he may learn all the forms without really getting them perfected and perform poorly at game time. On the other end of the rank spectrum, the slightly older competitor may have suffered more from the ravages of time and age and may have lost some of his snap and flexibility. Is it truly within the tenets of Taekwondo - courtesy, respect, integrity, discipline, indomitable spirit - for a first dan to show up a seventh dan, for example? I don’t think so.

The second problem with the current format is that it adds credence to the line offered by many martial artists of other styles - “that Taekwondo is a sport and NOT a martial art.” Simply, they’re wrong. Sorry. Many martial arts have competitions and those competitions have rules that make them a sport under the conditions set forth by those rules. The rules prohibit use from killing each other and restrict the kinds of blows we can give each other. However, on the street in a self-defense situation, there are a host of other techniques we’d use and targets we’d hit to protect ourselves. In class, we train with elbows and knees. They appear in our poomsae yet we don’t use them in the ring. So, to those naysayers that Taekwondo is NOT a martial art, I say it is both sport and martial art. There are two sides to the coin that is Taekwondo.

With the current poomsae format, as was stated earlier, there are first dans learning seventh dan poomsae so that he can compete. He may be able to do the techniques but is he truly grasping the meaning of the form? Taekwondo poomsae are assigned to each rank based on understanding the principle behind the form and its meaning, the development of the skill - which takes time - of the black belt and the character that has been forged through the years of training. By having a first dan ‘master’ high forms basically negates the rank system; at least in terms of poomsae. This being the case, why then should each dan have a specific form? Sport Taekwondo and Martial Arts Taekwondo are different but they’re from the same root; two branches of the same tree. To negate the meaning of each rank’s poomsae cuts the tree in half and a tree that is cut in half dies, neither half able to sustain itself or the other side.

So, how do we, the Taekwondo community, masters and NGBs fix these problems? Get more poomsae competitors entering championships and maintain the integrity of Martial Arts Taekwondo within Sport Taekwondo, Run dan specific black belt poomsae competition. Perhaps, run all events as dan specific, even sparring.

The format would essentially be the same as it is now with age breakdowns and a set of four ‘first compulsory poomsae’ and a set of four ‘second compulsory poomsae.’ The difference would be the poomsae in each set. First dans would have Taegeuk 3-6 in the first set and Taeguek 7 and 8 as well as Koryo and Keumgang in the second. Koryo is the first dan poomsae and Keumgang is the second dan form; the one the first dan would be learning on his road towards becoming a second dan. The sixth dan division, for instance, would have Taegeuk 8, Koryo, Keumgang and Taebaek (first set) and Pyongwon, Sipjin, Jitae and Chonkwon (second set).  Basically, it’s the new form the black belt is learning towards earning his next rank and the seven before it.

This format may make the overall event longer but to that I say, “Who cares?” Attending a Taekwondo event - an event of any kind - is celebration of that thing, whether it’s a sport, martial art, both, dance, painting, etc. Big events also don’t happen often (once a year likely the most frequent occurrence) so who cares if they’re a little longer than what we’re used to. Eventually, we’ll get used to the longer tournaments and still want more. The format I propose helps reinforce that Taekwondo is both martial art and martial sport. It would also get more people entered. There wouldn’t just be a 1st Masters Division first to fourth places to win. There’d be first to fourth place 1st Masters 1st Dan Division, first to fourth place 1st Masters 2nd Dan Division and so on.

With regard to my finish at last year’s Nationals, I came tenth out of eleven entrants. That is in the top ten and I was there to compete. I did show up. Ha ha! Seriously, though, this illustrates how few people enter some of these major tournaments. If everyone who’d qualified had entered, maybe I’d have finished in a lower place but with more competitors Taekwondo is better represented. If everyone who qualifies enters these major events AND there are separate divisions for each specific black belt dan, Taekwondo can be better represented even more. It’ll be better represented in terms of a rise in the sheer number of Taekwondo athletes but it will also be better represented in the quality of the Taekwondo at these major events. With more state champions, for instance, competing at the national event and accepting that the state champions are the best from their states, at least for that event or that year, then the national event will truly crown the best of the best. To help accommodate all of the changes I think would be good for my martial art and sport, the NGB has to help its state affiliates with finding the resources to guarantee that the state champions can and will get to the national event.

I love Taekwondo. I love poomsae. I’ve always preferred it to the other aspects of my chosen martial art. Let’s honour both, Taekwondo and forms, and let’s honour them the right way.


Pumped Up For Poomsae (Korean version)

(Google Translator was used to convert the English language file. I apologise for any errors.)

Poomsae์— ํŽŒํ•‘

1994 ๋…„, ๋‚˜๋Š” ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ํƒ€์ž„์ฆˆ ๋งค๊ฑฐ์ง„, ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋ฌด์ˆ  ์žก์ง€์— ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ์ฒดํฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ถœํŒ ์กฐ๊ฐ์—์„œ๋Š”, ๋ถˆํ–‰ํžˆ๋„ ์ „ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ Poomsae (์–‘์‹) ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์“ด ์ฃผ์š” ํ† ๋„ˆ๋จผํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ด. ๋ฌผ๋ก , ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ, ์ฃผ ๋Œ€ํšŒ ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€์™€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ„์—ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ŠคํŒŒ๋ง์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก , ์—ฐํšŒ์‹ค ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์˜€์ง€. ๊ทธ๋•Œ ๋ฌด์Šจ์ผ (์„ธ๊ณ„ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ์—ฐ๋งน) Poomsae ์›”๋“œ ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์‹ญ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ ์–ด๋„ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„์™€ ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋ฌด์ˆ  ๋Œ€ํšŒ์—์„œ poomsae ๋ถ„์—ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค, ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์•„์ง๋„ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†์ง€๋งŒ ์ฑ„์  ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์ ๊ฒŒ ๋ชจ์…”๊ฐ€๋˜๋ฏ€๋กœ ์—„๊ฒฉํžˆ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์—์„œ poomsae ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์กฐ์ง ๋ฐ ๊ณต์‹ํ™”๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์ข‹์€ ์ผ์ด์žˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์ „์ฒด ์„ ์ˆ˜๊ถŒ์—์„œ poomsae ๋” ์กด๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์„์œ„ํ•œ ์ž์ฒด ์ผ (๋“ค)์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ™๋ณดํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋œ๋‹ค.

๊ธ€์—์„œ, ๋‚œ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์„ ์ˆ˜๊ถŒ ์ผ์ข…๋˜์–ด์•ผํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์•„๋งˆ๋„, poomsae ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์˜ฌ๋ฆผํ”ฝ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œ๋ฒ” ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ, 1988 ๋…„, ์˜ฌ๋ฆผํ”ฝ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค (๊ธฐ์–ต, ๋‚˜๋Š”. ๋ฌด์Šจ์ผ์ด ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด 2006 ๋…„ ์ฒซ Poomsae ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์„ ์ˆ˜๊ถŒ ๋Œ€ํšŒ ์กฐ์‚ฌ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. 1990 ๋…„๋Œ€ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์— ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ผ๋‹ค), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๋ฉ”๋‹ฌ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค 2000 ๋…„ ์Šคํฌ์ธ . ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ดํ›„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆผํ”ฝ์˜ ์˜์ง€์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„๊ธ‰์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์„ ์ˆ˜์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‘ ๋ผ์šด๋“œ - ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์–ด 1994 ๋…„ ๋™๊ณ„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆผํ”ฝ์—์„œ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๊ณ  ์ถ”๋ฌธ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ํ”ผ๊ฒจ ์Šค์ผ€์ดํŒ… ๋Œ€ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ผœ๋ดค์„ ๋•Œ, ๋‚œ ๊ทธ ์ฃผ์š” poomsae ๋Œ€ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌ๋ฆผํ”ฝ ํ”ผ๊ฒจ ์Šค์ผ€์ดํŒ…๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ˜•์‹์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์ผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ๋Œ๊ณ  ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ฐฝ์กฐ์ ์ธ ์›ํ˜•์— ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ํ˜•์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ผ์šด๋“œ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ ์„ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์•ž์„œ ​​๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์˜ ํ…Œ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œ ์–‘์‹์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ฌด์ˆ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ •์˜์— ์˜ํ•ด ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์€ ์ฐฝ์กฐ์ ์ธ ์ถ”๊ตฌ์ด๋‹ค.

๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๋ฌด์Šจ์ผ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์„ ์ˆ˜๊ถŒ ๋Œ€ํšŒ์™€ ๋ฌด์Šจ์ผ ์ธ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋…๊ธฐ๊ตฌ (NGBs)์—์„œ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด€๋ จ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฌด์Šจ์ผ ์ธ์ •ํ•œ ์ „๊ตญ ์„ ์ˆ˜๊ถŒ ๋Œ€ํšŒ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์ฐพ๊ณ  Taekwondoist๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ , poomsae ์ง“์„ํ•ด์•ผ ๊ณต์‹ํ™” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ์Šน์ธ ๋ฐ ์Šน์ธ ์ฑ„์  ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ. ๋‚˜์ด์™€ ์ˆœ์œ„ (๋ฒจํŠธ ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋„์žˆ๋‹ค. poomsae ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์˜ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒํƒœ์™€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€์™€ ๋™์นจํ•˜๊ณ ๋Š”์ด ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ ํฌ์ŠคํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์—, ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์— ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์— ์ฐฌ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด๊ณ  ํ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ„ ์ผ์€ ํ›„ํšŒ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด, ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒ€์€ ๋ฒจํŠธ ์˜ค์ „ ์ƒ๊ฐ ํ•ด์š”. ๋‚ด NGB์—์„œ ์—ฌ์„ฏ์งธ ๋‹จ ์ธ์ฆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๊ตญ (USAT) ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„, ๋‚˜๋Š” Kukkiwon์˜ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„. ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋ณธ๋ถ€ (์ €๋Š” ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ๋Œ„ ์ธ์ฆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋ฌผ์„ ์ž‘์„ฑ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค)์—์„œ ๋‹ค์„ฏ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋‹จ ์ธ์ฆ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š” . ๋‚˜๋Š” 1989 ๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ ์žˆ์—ˆ ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํ•ฉ๊ธฐ๋„, Shotokan ๊ฐ€๋ผํ…Œ, Koeikan ๊ฐ€๋ผ๋ฐ์™€ ์œ ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” 10 ์›” 1985 ๋…„ ๋‚ด ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ™์ฝฉ์—์„œ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋‚จ๋ถ€ ์ฒด์œก ํ˜‘ํšŒ์—์„œ Shotokan์„ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•ด 6 ์›” ์ œ ๋ฌด์ˆ  ํ›ˆ๋ จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” Maplewood, ๋‰ด์ €์ง€์˜ ์ž‘์€ dojang์ด๋ผ๋„ ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋Š” Pompton ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ธ, ๋‰ด์ €์ง€์˜ ํ•œ ํ•™๊ต๋ฅผ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ 2011๊ณผ ๋‰ด์ €์ง€๋ฅผ์œ„ํ•œ 2012 ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ์„์‚ฌ Poomsae ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€ ์ƒํƒœ ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์ด๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋Š” 2011 ์ „๊ตญ ์„ ์ˆ˜๊ถŒ ๋Œ€ํšŒ์—์„œ ํ†ฑ 10์— ๋งˆ์ณค๋‹ค. ๋˜ ์ฝ”์นญ๊ณผ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ํ–‰์ •์—์„œ ์„์‚ฌ ํ•™์œ„๋ฅผ ์†Œ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋Š” USAT์™€ ๊ณต์ธ ๋ถ€๊ต์ˆ˜ ๊ฐ๋…์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ž˜๋‚œ์ฒ™์ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋‚˜์—ดํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ธ ์ž๊ฒฉ ์ฆ๋ช…์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋งŽ์€ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ˆ, ๋…์ž, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ์žˆ์—ˆ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋ž˜์— ๋ช…์‹œํ•ด์•ผํ•˜์ง€ ์ œ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก์ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋‚˜์—ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ž, ๋’ค๋กœ ๊ฒ€์€ ๋ฒจํŠธ poomsae ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์˜ ๋ถ€์กฑ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋  ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ง€๋‚œ 2 ๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ, ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ (3 ํšŒ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ์Šค 1 ์ผ ์„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹˜๋“ค)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ poomsae ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž์˜ ์ˆซ์ž๋Š” ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์ œ ์ถ”์ธก์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋งˆ๋„, ๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋ˆ์ด์—์š”. ๋“ฑ๋ก ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ํ–‰๋ณตํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ ์€๋ณด๋‹ค ํฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ฒฝ๋น„ (ํ•ญ๊ณต๋ฃŒ, ๊ฐ€์Šค, ์ฒ ๋„, ๋ฒ„์Šค, ์‹ํ’ˆ, ํ˜ธํ…”) ๋ช…๊นŒ์ง€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ €๋ ดํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์ œ์ณ๋‘๊ณ , ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์˜ ๋ถ€์กฑ ํ™๋ณด ๋ถ€์กฑ poomsae์€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์˜ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์ž์ฒด ์‹ค์ฒด๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ๊ณผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”, ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆผํ”ฝ์„ ๋นŒ๋ ค๋„ ์—ฐ๋‹จ ์žฅ์†Œ์—์„œ ์šฐ์Šน์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๋ง๊ณ . ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ผ์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ฐ poomsae์ด ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทœ์น™์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— codified๋˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ ์‹ค์ˆ˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ๊ณต์ œ์˜ ํŠน์ • ๋ชฉ๋ก์ด์žˆ๋‹คํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„, poomsae ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์€ ์–ด๋–ค ์ˆ˜์ค€์—์„œ, 'ํŒ๋‹จ'์ด๋ฒคํŠธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ฃผ๊ด€์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ์œ„์›๋“ค์€ ๊ต์œก์„ ํ†ตํ•ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์ตœ์‹  ์ƒํƒœ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ํšŒ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ค๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ธํ•ด ํ”ผ๋กœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฌด์Šจ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ์‚ฌ๋Š”ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฐ˜ํ™˜ ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ ๋ฐ / ๋˜๋Š” ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ํŠน์œ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ€ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ๋ด. ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ํŒฌ์œผ๋กœ์„œ, ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ™ˆํŒ€์ด ์„ ๋ฐœ๋Œ€ ๊ทธ ๋ณ„์„๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ํ†ตํ™”๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜, ๋งˆ์ดํด ์กฐ๋˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ํ”„๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋œ ์ƒ๋Œ€ํŽธ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์‹ ์ธ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ†ตํ™” ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์–ป์„ ํ•™๊ต.

๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ poomsae ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์˜ ํ˜„์žฌ ํ˜•์‹์—์„œ ๋ถ€์„œ๋Š” ๋‚˜์ด๋ณ„๋กœ ์„ธ๋ถ„ํ™”๋˜์–ด - 1 ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์‹œ๋‹ˆ์–ด (19-30), 2 ์ฐจ ๋…ธ์ธ (31-40), 1 ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์„์‚ฌ (41-50), 2 ์ฐจ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ( 51-60), 3 ์ฐจ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ (60 +). ํŒ€ poomsae ํ–‰์‚ฌ์ง€๋งŒ,์ด ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ์ฝ˜ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ์— ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ดˆ์ ์„์œ„ํ•œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—ฐ๋ น ๊ณตํฌ '์ฆ์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ณ„๋„์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ด์žˆ๋‹ค, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ํŒ€์˜ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ์—๋„ ์ ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ.

๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ๊ฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ž๋ฆฌ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ํ•™์œ„ ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ์ด 9 ์ •๋„์˜ ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚ด ๋ถ„์—ด, 1 ์ผ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ž๋Š” (7 ์ผ Taegeuk 8 ์กฐ (์‚ฌ์ „ ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ poomsae)์—์„œ Chonkwon๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๋‹จ ์— ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณ„๊ธ‰) poomsae. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ณ„๊ธ‰ ์ŠคํŽ™ํŠธ๋Ÿผ์˜ ์–‘์ชฝ์—์„œ ์–ด๋Š์ •๋„ ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ธ ๋œป์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ . ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋‹จ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ •๊ทœ ์ˆ˜์—… ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋ฐฐ์šด๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์—ฌ์„ฏ ์–‘์‹์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œํŽธ, ์ผ๊ณฑ์งธ ๋Œ„ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ž๋Š” ๊ฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์™„์„ฑ, ๊ต์œก ์ˆ˜๋…„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œํ—˜์— ๋ฒผ๋ฝ ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๋Š” ์œ ์‚ฌ, ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋Œ„ ๋‹จ์ง€ ์„ ์ˆ˜๊ถŒ์„ ์ž…๋ ฅ poomsae ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์—…์ฒด์˜ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๊ณ , ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ๋กœ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด, ์ •๋ง ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋“  ํ˜•ํƒœ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„๊ธ‰ ์ŠคํŽ™ํŠธ๋Ÿผ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ชฝ ๋์„์—์„œ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์—…์ฒด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ๋งน์œ„๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋” ๊ณ ์ƒํ–ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜์™€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์Šค๋ƒ…๊ณผ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์žƒ์—ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์˜, ์กด์ค‘, ์„ฑ์‹ค, ๊ทœ์œจ, ๋ถˆ๊ตด์˜ ์ •์‹  - - ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์น ๋ถ„์˜ ์ผ ๋Œ„์„ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•˜๊ธฐ์œ„ํ•œ ์ฒซ ๋‹จ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„์˜ ์‹ ์กฐ ๋‚ด์— ์ง„์ •์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ๋‚œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"๊ทธ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„๋Š” ์Šคํฌ์ธ ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ๋ฌด์ˆ ์ด๋‹ค."๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ๋งํ•˜์ž๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ํ‹€๋ ธ๋‹ค - ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ํ˜•์‹๊ณผ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์˜ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฌด์ˆ  ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋Š” ๋ผ์ธ์— ์‹ ๋น™์„ฑ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ์•ˆ ํ•ด์š”. ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฌด์ˆ ์€ ๋Œ€ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๋Œ€ํšŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ ๊ทœ์น™์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ทœ์ •๋œ ์กฐ๊ฑด ํ•˜์—์„œ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ๋งŒ๋“ค ๊ทœ์น™์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทœ์น™์€ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์ฃฝ์ด๋Š”์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ๋ถˆ๋ฉด์˜ ์ข…๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ œํ•œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ •๋‹น ๋ฐฉ์œ„ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ์ด๋ฉฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์นœ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์—…์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํŒ”๊ฟˆ์น˜์™€ ๋ฌด๋ฆŽ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ›ˆ๋ จ. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ poomsae์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€ ์•„์ง ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜์ง€์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ, ๊ทธ ๋” ์—†์–ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„๋Š” ๋ฌด์ˆ ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ , ๋‚œ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์Šคํฌ์ธ ์™€ ๋ฌด์ˆ ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„๋Š” ๋™์ „ ์–‘๋ฉด์ด์žˆ๋‹ค.

ํ˜„์žฌ poomsae ํ˜•์‹์œผ๋กœ ์•ž์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋•Œ, ์ผ๊ณฑ์งธ ๋Œ„์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ dans๊ฐ€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก poomsae. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ์–‘์‹์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ฅ๊ณ ์žˆ๋‹ค? ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์†Œ์š”๋˜๋Š” - - ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์˜ ์„ธ์›”์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์œ„์กฐ๋˜๊ณ  ๋ฌธ์ž์˜ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ poomsae์€ ํ˜•ํƒœ์™€ ์˜๋ฏธ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „ ๋’ค์— ์›๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ ๊ณ„๊ธ‰์— ํ• ๋‹น๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋‹จ '๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ'๋†’์€ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„๊ธ‰ ์ œ๋„๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”๊ฑฐ์•ผ, ์ ์–ด๋„ poomsae ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ. ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด๋˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ ๊ฐ ๋‹จ์€ ํŠน์ • ์–‘์‹์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€? ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„์™€ ๋ฌด์ˆ ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์˜ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€. ๊ฐ ๊ณ„๊ธ‰์˜ poomsae์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์™€ ํ•˜ํ”„ ๊ธˆํ˜•์—์„œ ์ ˆ๋‹จํ•˜์ง€, ๋‘˜๋‹ค ์ž์ฒด ๋˜๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ธก๋ฉด์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ• ์„ ๋ฐ˜ ์ˆ˜ ๋‚˜๋ฌด ์ง€๊ฒฝ.

๊ทธ๋ž˜, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ, ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ, ์„์‚ฌ ๋ฐ NGBs๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๋” poomsae ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์„ ์ˆ˜๊ถŒ ๋Œ€ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ž…๋ ฅ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ์ด๋‚ด ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ๋ฌด์ˆ ์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฒฐ์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ ๋Œ„ ํŠน์ • ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ poomsae ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋งˆ๋„, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์ŠคํŒŒ๋ง, ๋‹จ ํŠน์ • ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚˜์ด ๊ณ ์žฅ ๋„ท์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์˜๋ฌด poomsae ', 4 ์„ธํŠธ์˜ ์„ธํŠธ๋กœ ์ง€๊ธˆ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ˜•์‹์€ ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค'๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ ๊ฐ•์ œ poomsae. ' ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ ์„ธํŠธ์˜ poomsae ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ dans ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ง‘ํ•ฉ๊ณผ Taeguek 7 Taegeuk 3-6 8๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ณ ๋ ค์™€ Keumgang์„ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋‹จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค poomsae๊ณผ Keumgang ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋‹จ ์–‘์‹์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ๋Œ„์€ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋‹จ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์„ฏ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋Œ„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, Taegeuk 8, ๊ณ ๋ ค, Keum g ์ค‘์•™ ๋ฐ Taebaek (์ฒซ ์„ธํŠธ)์™€ Pyongwon, Sipjin, Jitae ๋ฐ Chonkwon์„ (๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์„ธํŠธ) ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฆฝ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ์–‘์‹ ๋ฐ ์ด์ „ ์ผ๊ณฑ์‚ด ์ด๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”.

" ๊ด€์‹ฌ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ?"์ด ํ˜•์‹์€ ์ „์ฒด ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ง์„ํ•˜๊ณ  ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์ฐธ์„ - ๋ชจ๋“  ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋ฅผ - ๊ทธ ์ผ์„ ๊ธฐ๋…, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์Šคํฌ์ธ , ๋ฌด์ˆ , ๋‘˜, ์ถค, ๊ทธ๋ฆผ,์ด๋“  ๋“ฑ ๋น… ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๊ด€์‹ฌ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— (๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋นˆ๋ฐœ ์ผ๋…„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์—) ์ž์ฃผ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๋Œ€ํšŒ์— ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์ ธ ์•ผํ•ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋” ์›ํ•ด. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์•ˆํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜•์‹ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„๋Š” ๋ฌด์ˆ ๊ณผ ๋ฌด์ˆ  ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ๋ชจ๋‘๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ž…๋ ฅ๋ฐ›์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์Šน๋ฆฌ ๋„ท์งธ ์ž๋ฆฌ ๋จผ์ € ์ œ 1์˜ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ์Šค ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋‹จ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ ๊ฒ ์ฃ . 1 ์ผ ์„์‚ฌ 1 ์ผ 4 ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋จผ์ €๊ฐ€์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋Œ„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ 4 ์œ„ ์ œ 1 ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋จผ์ € 2 ๊ธฐ ๋Œ„ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€ ๋“ฑ๋“ฑ.

์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ๋‚ด์…”๋„์—์„œ ๋‚ด ๋งˆ๊ฐ์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ๋‚˜๋Š” 11 ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž์˜ ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์—ด๋ฒˆ์งธ ์™”์–ด์š”. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ 10์— ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ํ•˜ํ•˜! ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ช‡ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ฉ”์ด์ € ๋Œ€ํšŒ ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์ž…๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๊ฒฉ ์„ํ…๋ฐ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ž…๋ ฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์€ ๊ณณ์— ์™„๋ฃŒ ์‹ถ์ง€๋งŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์ƒ๋Œ€์™€ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ ํ‘œํ˜„๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฃผ์š” ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ž…๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ ํŠน์ • ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฒจํŠธ ๋‹จ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ณ„๋„์˜ ๋ถ€์„œ๊ฐ€์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„๋Š” ๋” ๋”์šฑ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ์„ ์ˆ˜์˜ ๊นŽ์•„์ง€๋ฅธ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ํ‘œ์‹œ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹คํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฃผ์š” ํ–‰์‚ฌ์—์„œ ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„์˜ ํ’ˆ์งˆ๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฃผ ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์ด ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ ๋‹ค์Œ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ํ•ด, ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ ์ตœ์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋Š” ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์™•๊ด€ ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์ˆ  ๋ฐ ์Šคํฌ์ธ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ข‹์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด์•ผ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์„ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด NGB๋Š” ์ฃผ ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์ด์™€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์— ์–ป์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค์„ ๋ณด์ฆํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ž์›์„ ์ฐพ๋Š”์™€์˜ ์ƒํƒœ ๊ณ„์—ด์‚ฌ ๋„์™€์•ผ๋งŒ ํ•ด.

๋‚˜๋Š” ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ํ•ด์š”. ๋‚˜๋Š” poomsae ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ํ•ด์š”. ๋‚œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋‚ด ์„ ํƒํ•œ ๋ฌด์ˆ ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ธก๋ฉด์— ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ํ•˜์ž ๋ช…์˜ˆ, ํƒœ๊ถŒ๋„์™€ ์–‘์‹, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ถ™์–ด ๋ณด์ž ๋ช…์˜ˆ ๊ทธ๋“ค ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ๋ชจ๋‘.