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Taekwondo Bible Vol.1
Preface to the English ver.
Introduction

Part. I

1. Oneness and ...
2. There is Do ...
3. The World, ...
4. Picturing ...

5. There is ...
6. The Principles ...

Part. II

7. In Taekwondo ...
8. Facing the ...
9. Erasing ...
10. Thinking ...
11. Doing TKD
12. Not Losing ...
13. Three ...

Part. III

14. Taekwondo's ...
15. Distinction ...
16. Doing Both ...
17. Questioning ...
18. Looking Out ...
19. Endless ...
20. Finding ...
21. Begining ...
22. Keeping ...

Part. IV

23. Moving ...
24. Controling ...
25. Attacking ...
26. Leading ...
27. Surpassing ...
28. Attacking ...
29. Capturing ...

Part. V

30. Having ...
31. Knowing ...
32. Filling Mind ...
33. Taekwondo ...
34. Hitting ...
35. Attacking ...
36. Making ...
37. Avoiding ...
38. Offense and ...
39. Winning with ...

Part. VI

40. Offense and ...
41. Having Softness ...
42. There Be ...
43. Controling ...
44. Being Able ...
45. Harmony of ...
46. Beautifulness ...
47. Able to Stab ...

Part. VII

48. Seeing Motion ...
49. Sparring with ...
50. Free in Strict ...
51. Having Poomsae ...
52. Perfection ...
53. Having Yourself ...
54. There being ...
55. Getting Everything ...

Part. VIII

56. Completing ...
57. Taekwondo Be ...
58. A Piece of String ...
59. Seeing New ...
60. Everything in ...
61. Begining Training ...
62. Seeing the World ...
63. Truth of TKD ...
64. Oneness and ...

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Division 8. The Basics

Chapter 57

The Art of One Skill  

   

“Why is it you teach me I must suppress anger in my technique?”
“Because you should not cling to what is mutable but seek the permanent principle.”

 

 

 

What is Taekwondo? It is the art of one skill. Taekwondo begins with one skill and finds completion there also. Its beginning and its end are one. Taekwondo is in nothing more than a single basic skill. This is not to say you should always perform use this one skill when you spar with your opponent, but rather that you should become the skill itself. You have to practice many techniques to arrive at proper Taekwondo, training in which you should hone and master your own one skill that penetrates all those various techniques and discard all else. Just as a weapon that is part of you surpasses other weapons, so this one skill as a part of you will capably suppresses a hundred others, to include your own self and the opponent you would subdue.


Because your self has become the skill itself, it is natural and nothing exceptional to perform it. Thus, the opponent will not recognize it, and if he were to recognize it he could not defend against it. The one skill, though simple, also contains all techniques in one and comprises boundless changes. Though you perform it fleetingly, you can achieve it only through long and steady training, for it is the principle of Taekwondo to subdue the opponent with the end part of the entirety. Taekwondo is simple. Taekwondo is in a moment, like the crossroads of life and death.