Schools of Swordsmanship
There are a couple of schools that claim that they still hold the techniques of these swords practitioners in the past. Kuksoolwon and Haidong Gumdo claims that the hold the genuine Swords techniques that are written in the Muye Dobo Tongji (The Manual Of Korean Martial arts). It is said that there were 24 fighting postures in training; The Korean practitioners of the past generally used low kicking techniques to distract, dismantle and disable the opponent when holding the sword in one hand and sheath in the other. The kicking techniques were generally from Taekkyeon or Subak.
Most traditional and "true" Korean Swordsmanship schools would use the terms "mu sul" meaning technique or "beop" meaning the way; Hence, the term "geombeop" meaning Sword way or 'how to use the sword' in literal translations, or Geomsul meaning 'Sword technique'. Most Korean martial arts that use the word "Do" or "The Way" are just modernistic schools that rarely have any ties to the past. Many schools existed, however the leading document that the past has given us is Mu Ye dobo Tongji or "Illustrated Comprehensive Martial Arts Manual" of Master Lee Dok Mu, as ordered by King Jeong-jo published in 1795. The book is basically an overall book of the many techniques that were being used at the time.
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