The History of Kuk Sool Won™

Grandmaster In Hyuk Suh

In Hyuk Suh is the founder, Grandmaster and President of the World Kuk Sool Association®. He received his first instruction from his grandfather, Myung Deuk Suh, a master-instructor to the Korean Royal Court. After his grandfather's death, he traveled throughout the Far East seeking out and studying additional aspects of the martial arts.

Grandmaster In Hyuk Suh spent more than fifty years of single minded practice and research in order to learn, compile, master, and organize the more than 3600 techniques that comprise Kuk Sool. With the knowledge he acquired from his grandfather and subsequent masters, he founded Kuk Sool Won™ in 1958 and brought it to the United States in 1974.

The World Kuk Sool Association®, headquarters in Tomball, Texas, has since grown to include more than 1.3 million members with over 900 schools worldwide in 27 different countries.

Kuk Sool Won™ is the systematic study of traditional Korean Martial Arts. The techniques which make up Kuk Sool stretch back over 4000 years of Korean history. Primarily, Kuk Sool can be broken down into its three root branches:

• Koong-Joong Mu Sool - the Martial Arts of the Korean Royal Court
  
• Bool-Kyo Mu Sool - the Martial Arts of the Korean Buddhist monks
  
• Sah Do Mu Sool - the Korean tribal or clan Martial Arts

Kuk Sool has more than 3600 techniques derived from these three branches of traditional Korean martial arts and is structured to take a practitioner in a logical progression from the beginning all the way up to Master level.

Kuk Sool Won™ has been actively promoted worldwide by the World Kuk Sool Association®, and it is also recognized in the martial arts community as one of the most effective and comprehensive systems of traditional Korean martial arts in existence today.