Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:44:00 -0800 (PST) From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 9 #93 - 7 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.8 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Sender: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net List-Help: List-Post: X-Subscribed-Address: rterry@idiom.com List-Subscribe: List-Id: The Internet's premier discussion forum on Korean Martial Arts. List-Unsubscribe: Status: O Send The_Dojang mailing list submissions to the_dojang@martialartsresource.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net You can reach the person managing the list at the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of The_Dojang digest..." <<--------------- The_Dojang mailing list --------------->> Serving the Internet since June 1994. Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The Internet's premier discussion forum devoted to Korean Martial Arts. See the Korean Martial Arts (KMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of The_Dojang at http://MartialArtsResource.com Pil Seung! Today's Topics: 1. English-Language Tourism Atlas (Ray Terry) 2. Re: The nature of Korean Arts (Bruce Sims) 3. Marine Corp Martial Arts- Demo in Columbus (SCARBRM@Nationwide.com) 4. Requesting Info - Juvenile Probation Program (KACraneTKD@aol.com) 5. 8:02 PM tonight (Ray Terry) 6. Korean Studies Review (Ray Terry) 7. Weapons (Rudy Timmerman) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Ray Terry To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 7:16:09 PST Subject: [The_Dojang] English-Language Tourism Atlas Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Comprehensive English-Language Tourism Atlas Published February 18, 2002 Ministry of Culture and Tourism A comprehensive English-language tourism atlas has just been published. In cooperation with the Korea Tourism Research Institute, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism sponsored the publication project that first began in 1999. Entitled RExplore Korea: Essence of Culture and Tourism,S the atlas lists major tourism attractions dispersed throughout the nation, grouping them geographically under primary cities and provinces. In the later part of the guidebook, the RThematic AttractionsS section highlights the basic, essential information about the Korean history, food, life-styles, traditions, and other aspects of the indigenous Korean culture and its custom. The 360-page atlas is a hardcover, oversize publication, containing color photographs that convey the richness of KoreaUs cultural heritage. The tourism atlas, published for tourism promotional purposes, will be distributed to foreign institutions, including media organizations, museums, libraries, and universities. Korean missions abroad will also receive the atlas for their local use. The ministry believes that the atlas will also be highly useful for the local authorities involved in the upcoming World Cup soccer event, travel agencies, visiting journalists and foreign missions in Korea. The atlas is going to be put on the shelf at local bookstores in Seoul, Busan and Gwangju cities at the price of 60,000 won ($45), beginning February 20. For more information, call the Government Publication Sales Center at 02-734-6818 or Ms. J.S. Oh at 02-3704-9710. --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:53:41 -0600 From: "Bruce Sims" To: Subject: [The_Dojang] Re: The nature of Korean Arts Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Dear Ray: "....One another note, just a question (no hidden agenda here), are there currently many (any?) HRD schools in Korea?......" I'm not sure how this is going to come out, but your post seemed to gel a question that I have been wondering about for quite sometime. Over the last 18 months or so I have read posts on the DD in which people who have visited Korea, or perhaps Korean nationals here in the States, have tried to characterize the nature of Korean Martial Arts in Korea as compared to what is practiced here in the States. What I am wondering is if anyone---- hopefully an objective third party--- has actually done any survey work along these lines. What I am thinking of is some sort of overview of what is being taught, by whom and to whom. I remember that Stanley Pranin (Ed., AIKIDO JOURNAL) did a directory once of Aikido/Aikijujutsu schools but what I am thinking of is a bit more comprehensive than that. I could imagine the Korean Educational or Cultural people having such material at hand, but I am wondering if anyone has actually organized such information to give an accurate, unbiased picture of Korean MA practice? Speaking only for myself, I get a little frustrated with folks who have been to Korea either for a week or a decade reporting conclusions based on second-hand information, residence in only one portion of the country, or (gawd help us) a months' guided tour through selected sites. Has anyone done something more authoritative? Best Wishes, Bruce --__--__-- Message: 3 To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net From: SCARBRM@Nationwide.com Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:30:52 -0500 Subject: [The_Dojang] Marine Corp Martial Arts- Demo in Columbus Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Tuhon Bill McGrath mentioned the new Marine Corp martial art program. The Marine Corp Martial Art Demo Team will be performing a short demonstration at: Arnold's Battle of Columbus Saturday February 23rd Columbus Ohio Convention Center (Hall C) Between 2:00-4:00 For more information regarding Arnold's Battle of Columbus go to wuma.com. Thanks, Mike --__--__-- Message: 4 From: KACraneTKD@aol.com Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:31:04 EST To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Requesting Info - Juvenile Probation Program Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Greetings! My colleagues and I are in the process of putting together a program for children/youths currently on probation. We must first pitch it to the Probation Department then, if they like what they hear, our proposal goes to the county to try and get a contract for our services. I have already started to write a proposal for this process. It will include the positive aspects of the martial arts for these probationers, frequency of training, cost factors, etc. Has anybody out there had any experience with this type of a program? If so, can you provide any advice, suggestions, file copy of a proposal that was successful, etc.? If so, please email me directly at: KACraneTKD@aol.com Thank you in advance! Kevin --__--__-- Message: 5 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net, the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:38:29 PST Subject: [The_Dojang] 8:02 PM tonight Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Forwarded message: A palindrome is "A word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward." For the first time in over a millennium, time will pass through its second -- and last -- Triple Palindrome event tonight. As the clock ticks over to 8:02PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. Using military time, 8:02 PM will be 20:02 The 20th of February will be 20-02 In the year 2002. 20:02 20-02 2002 This has only happened once before, over a thousand years ago, on 10:01AM, on January 10, 1001. And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something that will never happen again. Remember where you were on 20:02 20-02 2002, so you can tell your grandkids! --__--__-- Message: 6 From: Ray Terry To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:55:41 PST Subject: [The_Dojang] Korean Studies Review Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net fyi... Forwarded message: _Korean Studies Review_ will soon return to life for 2002 after its usual (southern hemisphere) summer hiatus. Among the reviews on tap are Mark Caprio on Hildi Kang's _Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945_, Bernhard Seliger on Chung Myung-chang's _The Bank of Korea: A History of Fifty Years_, as well as reviews from our print partner _Acta Koreana_. I hope to begin sending them out and putting them on the web within the next week or so. In the meantime, we also have the following books up for grabs. If you are interested in reviewing any of them, please contact me at ; do not respond to the list as a whole. If others have books they wish to make available for review, please feel free to write me as well. Ross King and Jae-Hoon Yeon, _Elementary Korean_ (Tuttle) T. E. McAuley, _Language Change in East Asia_ (Curzon) Dennis Hart, _From Tradition to Consumption: Construction of a Capitalist Culture in South Korea_ (Jimoondang) Margaret Stetz and Bonnie B.C. Oh, edd., _Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II_ (M. E. Sharpe) Kim Su-young, Shin Kyoung-Nim, Lee Si-Young , _Variations: Three Korean Poets_ tr. by Brother Anthony and Young-Moo Kim (Cornell East Asia Series) Laurel Kendall, ed., _Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea_ (Hawaii) Please note that the entry page for _Korean Studies Review_ is now http://koreaweb.ws/ks/ksr/ This page also links to an index of reviews that have appeared over the past four years. --__--__-- Message: 7 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:22:29 -0500 From: "Rudy Timmerman" To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Weapons Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Tom writes: > I can see that knife and cane training would be valuable because they can be > carried but sword? Last night I watched a program on TV of an Edmonton police show. They arrested two separate men for carrying a sword with intend to harm. While YOU may not think that swoerd training relates to self-defense, perpetrators may have a different view. In addition, as Bruce explained, there are many other benefits from training with weapons of all sorts. Bruce: Thanks for opening the door on form training. As you know from some of your training with Kevin, we practice low stances. The benefits are a terrific workout for the legs. However, we also practice the same forms in higher stances in four directions to enhance aerobic capacity. Just as you would do varied exercises with weights, we do varied exercises with forms. Some are continuous motion without any power, others are slow and very precise and deliberate, still others we do to practice speed and timing and so on. Practicing forms with partners can even enhance our senses like peripheral vision, hearing, and just "feeling" what is going on around you. Try blindfolding sometimes:) The way we look at forms is strictly as a training tool, and we use them in every imaginable manner. In fact, we look at technique training with partners as a two (or more) man form. To practice for self-defense is near impossible, because the situations always change. The only thing we can do to minimize adverse effects is to train our minds and bodies in order to hone our skills. Why leave out ANY tool for such an important task? Sorry for rambling on a bit, but I just hate to see fellow martial artists lose out on some of these wonderful "sport specific" training opportunities because they limit their vision of what is useful. Sincerely, Rudy --__--__-- _______________________________________________ The_Dojang mailing list The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang It's a great day for Taekwondo! Support the USTU by joining today. 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