GI-CHUN-MOON !
Unique traditional Korean Martial Arts.

"The wind cannot be seen. It's a force which can be felt only when it blows!"

"Imagine communication without words or sayings, only with your body movements!"

Those expressions explain the Gichunmoon the best.

Gichunmoon is unique and original.
It is like a dance but once it explodes, it's beyond every imagination!
Practicing Gichunmoon needs a lot of patience, persistence and efforts as it still keeps most of its original styles unlike other martial arts.

It had been practiced by Buddhist monks for centuries in deep mountain temples in Korea and has been handed down between only these select Buddhist monks.

This unique martial art was unknown to the world up until 1960s when is was introduced to the general public by a young Buddhist disciple, Daeyang Park, who had been the first Moonjoo (Grand master) for years.

When he first came down to a local town from a deep mountain temple, he was so short, young and didn't look like strong enough that people expected little fighting power from him.
After bouts of real dueling with many experts from other martial art experts, people started to realize that no one could beat him. Many people tried, but none of them couldn't even touch his body.
Furthermore, when young Grand master Daeyang Park attacked them, they could not even see any movements.
Most of them were defeated by his very first attack.

After that, lots of martial art experts gathered around him to learn his unique martial arts, the Gichunmoon.

However, most of them gave up soon after or in the middle of training because they didn't have enough patience or persistence.

Some of early Gichunmoon disciples have created their own variations of the martial art such as Haedong Gumdo and Soo-byok Chi-gi (which are now popular in Korea).
Gugjarang is another part of Gichunmoon which has the same origin and the same Moonjoo.

Presently, Gichunmoon has a nationwide school network in Korea and many universities have their own practice clubs. It is also being taught in some universities as part of traditional dance programs (as the motions of Gichunmoon are similar to dancing; many modern dance groups apply their motions to a new dance style creation based on Gichunmoon).

In 1996, the first Moonjoo Daeyang Park handed his title of Moonjoo (Grand Master) over Sakyoo Park, one of his most believed disciples, and the latter became the second Moonjoo since then.

In spite of his age, the second Moonjoo Sakyoo Park stays in Mt. Kyeryong, a famous Korean mountain among martial artists, to practice himself more and to give intensive courses to masters or instructors of Gichunmoon.

Every summer, a lot of Gichunmoon experts go to this mountain to learn from him and to have more time for their self-practice as well.