6. Joong-Gun name

– Joong-Gun name –

Joong-Gun Taekwon-do pattern has 32 movements.

choongun-tul-diagram

Official name
Ahn Joong-Gun (1878-1910) is a patriot who assassinated Hiro-Bumi Ito, the first Japanese governor-general in Korea. Hiro-Bumi played a significant role in the Japanese domination of Korea.

The pattern consists of 32 movements, representing the age of Ahn Joong-Gun when he was executed in the prison of Lui-Shung (1910).

Supplementary
Ahn Joong-Gun was a member of a resistance movement and shot General Hiro-Bumi in retaliation for the fact that he had carried out multiple executions of Koreans. Ahn was hung as a criminal while he considered himself a prisoner of war. His body has never been recovered.

Learning
In this Tul, positions often transition into one another without significant movement. It is a fight in the same way where the Taekwon-do practitioner quickly moves.