About Us

Award-winning martial arts school based in the heart of Suffolk. We can offer the following benefits from our Kuk Sool Won™ teachings: * Self-Defence- Kuk Sool Won™ will teach you to think rather than panic in potentially dangerous situations. It will give you the confidence to walk away from conflict or to never let the situation develop in the first place. * Self-Discipline – At Kuk Sool, we help you to set goals and to stay with them. You will learn to draw upon your own inner strength to succeed. Kuk Sool lessons are dynamic and challenging and offer something for everyone. Therefore, if you are athletic or awkward, shy or outgoing, energetic or simply out of shape Kuk Sool Won™ will be great for you * Self-Confidence – Kuk Sool Won™ helps you to develop your self-confidence by helping you to reach your goals as you develop your Martial Arts skills! * Health and Fitness – Kuk Sool is great for stress and tension; it will increase your stamina, expand your cardiovascular fitness and improve your overall physical and mental condition. We also have an online healthy eating plan to assist you with your health and fitness * Respect- Kuk Sool Won™ places a lot of emphasis on respect and good manners and is considered the cornerstone of our martial art. We encourage all of our students to treat others how they wish to be treated themselves.

We welcome men, women and children of all ages and abilities. We teach traditional Korean martial arts: Forms, Techniques, Joint-locking, Pressure Points, Wood Breaking, 24 Weapons systems, Sparring, Breakfalling, Acrobatics, Meditation. WHY KUK SOOL? FITNESS: Coordinated as a full body work-out, Kuk Sool training combines many different types of exercise – flexibility, strength training and cardio – into a single workout program. As a form of exercise, Kuk Sool combines a regimen of flexibility exercises, a graduated cardiovascular workout with a series of hand techniques, and kicking techniques that begin at white belt with basic applications and then continue, as the student progresses through a series of advanced jumping and spinning kicks, combination kicking and hand and kicking drills. The actual Kuk Sool program can be divided into forms(Hyung) and techniques(Soo) arranged in a systematic, graduated progression to teach balance and coordination, while at the same time developing the relaxed power, graceful motion and low stances characteristic of the style. SELF-DEFENCE: Self-defence is all about options, and that is one of the strong points of Kuk Sool. In addition to the many dozens of different strikes and punches associated with most martial arts(as well as an almost infinite variety of different combinations), the fundamental techniques of Kuk Sool are built around a progressive series of techniques designed to attack the weak points on an opponent’s body: his joints and pressure points. In more limited martial arts styles, the number of available techniques may be relatively small(a small number of techniques = a limited number of self-defence options), while Kuk Sool is composed of more than 226 different joint-locking and throwing techniques in the below black belt chart alone, giving the Kuk Sool student a variety of different options – striking and kicking, throwing techniques, joint-locking techniques, pressure point techniques, etc. – For any situation. Kuk Sool weapons instruction and practice train the student to use everyday objects in self-defence situations. See “Blast from the Past” article in the February 2007 edition of Black Belt Magazine(“Translating Traditional Korean Weapons Training Into Real Self-Defence.”) TRADITION: As an organization, Kuk Sool is only about fifty years old(about the same as Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido and other styles of Korean martial arts), but the history and traditions of Kuk Sool stretch back many hundreds of years into the martial history of Korea, drawing on the three main root systems of Korean martial arts: Sado Musool – Tribal or Family Martial Arts. Drawing from some of the earliest martial arts techniques in Korea, these tribal(or family) martial arts techniques include much of the throwing and grappling skills of Kuk Sool, as well as some of the more specialized techniques such as wrestling, head-butting and stone- and knife-throwing. Bulkyo Musool – Buddhist Martial Arts. From the martial arts handed down over many hundreds of years in the Korean Buddhist temple system, Kuk Sool has adopted many of the specialized breathing techniques to develop increased energy and health, animal-style techniques similar to those seen in many Chinese martial arts and developed around certain ‘martial’ animals(such as the tiger, dragon, crane and preying mantis) and many of the staff-related traditional weapons of Kuk Sool, such as the joong bong(long staff), dahn bong(short stick – single and double), juel bong(flail) and ji pang ee(hooked walking cane) – all taught as a part of the standard curriculum at Kuk Sool Won of Sudbury. Koong Joong Musool – Korean Royal Palace Martial Arts. From the Korean Royal Court martial arts, Kuk Sool has taken advanced kicking and striking techniques, joint manipulation techniques(Kwahn Juel Ki), pressure point techniques(Ji Ahp Sool) and special arresting techniques such as Yuhn Haeng Sool(‘come-along’ techniques) and Poh Bohk Sool(rope techniques) developed by the Royal Palace guards. Also from the Korean Royal Court comes many of the Kuk Sool weapons such as the chang(spear), sahm chang(trident) and the many different types of sword techniques taught at Kuk Sool Won of Sudbury, such as the joong guhm(straight sword), yuhk guhm(inverted sword), ssahng jang guhm(double long swords) and ssahng dahn guhm(double short swords).

Establishment: Established in 2004.

Areas we cover: Sudbury, Great Cornard, Suffolk, Babergh, CO10.

Come and train in an award winning martial arts school run by SBN Dr Karen Smith (4th Dahn Asst. Master), a 12 x British and 12 x European Champion, Grand Champion and World medalist whose school has been established in the area for many years. The school is WKSA approved, fully insured through Kuk Sool Won UK Schools Ltd Block Policy, all Instructors are DBS checked, first aid trained, SAFE accredited and we are a Suffolk Childrens University provider. Why take unnecessary risks when you can experience martial arts as its best.Other services we provide: mind, Fitness, Flexibility and Health And Wellbeing

Services & Products we offer

• Adults Martial Arts Classes
• Childrens mart
• Self Defence Classes
• Self Defence/self Confidence
• Fitness
• Flexibility
• Core Strength Cardio Fitness
• Mind Body Spirit Martial Arts
• Kuk
• Hapkido

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