Welcome. Kuk Sool Won of Alameda is part of a larger organization, The World Kuk Sool Association. The beauty of Kuk Sool Won™ is that it's comprehensive and offers its students a solid martial arts foundation.

Kuk Sool Won™ is an extremely well-organized system of martial arts which seeks to integrate and explore all aspects of traditional fighting arts.
While Kuk Sool Won may contain certain elements specific to other styles of martial arts, it goes beyond the range of other martial art styles.

For example, Tae Kwon Do is mostly kicking, Judo is mostly throwing, Aikido is mostly joint-locking, and so on. Kuk Sool Won, being a system of martial arts, incorporates all of these styles and emphasizes each in turn. Kuk Sool Won covers every aspect of the martial arts spectrum in order to give the practitioner and student a broader understanding of martial arts technique and theory.

Grandmaster In Hyuk Suh spent more than 40 years in single minded practice and research in order to learn, compile, master and organize the more than 3,600 techniques that comprise KUK SOOL WON™. He founded the KUK SOOL WON™ (Traditional Korean Martial Arts Association) in 1961 and brought it to the United States in 1974.

The World Kuk Sool Association, headquartered in Houston, Texas since 1991, previously in San Francisco, has grown to include Schools in Asia, Europe, including Great Britain, and the Americas and continues to increase in strength and numbers daily. For self-defense KUK SOOL WON™ is unsurpassed.

Kuk Sool combines kicking, punching, throwing, choking, joint-locking, and a myriad of weapons techniques, into a beautiful and dynamic "hard-soft" style emphasizing speed and fluidity. Physical training, meditation breathing, acupressure and acupuncture techniques are also employed to improve and maintain health to develop internal power, and to retard the aging process.

Philosophically, KUK SOOL WON™ stresses humility, self-discipline, self-control, loyalty and respect for others. Together, these aspects of KUK SOOL WON™ provide the means for attaining a long and healthy life.
 
Kuk Sool can benefit men, women, and children. Through diligent practice, Kuk Sool training will develop strength, quickness, balance, timing, flexibility and co-ordination. At the same time powers of concentration, self-discipline and self-control significantly improve. In addition, faithful practice will enhance circulation and digestion, reduce problems of the back and joints and aid in weight loss and help to develop and maintain a youthful appearance. These benefits will positively affect all aspects of your life.

Adapted from Kuk Sool Won
Edited and written by Suh, In Hyuk
Founder & Grandmaster of Kuk Sool Won
Copyright 1993