The Complete Tae Kwon Do Hyung, Volume 2

by Hee Il Cho

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865680558
• ISBN13: 9780865680555
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Unique Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Reference Set for Chang Hon Forms (old style)

The three volumes of Hyung by Master Cho are an excellent reference set for the Chang Hon patterns. The pictures are clear and the descriptions are fairly good. Used in conjunction with the excellent videos that are available through Master Cho should provide you with everything you need to complement classroom instruction and forms review. (There are even cheaper packages available from Master Cho with all of the books and videos packaged together). The videos run through each form twice, once with Master Cho and a partner showing everything move by move and explaining it and the second with Master Cho doing it with "full speed and power". Seeing his intensity and focus will probably convnice you, as it did me, that these are the best videos out there for the patterns. The books and videos have a very few differences but not substantially. WORD OF WARNING: Master Cho does his forms "old-style", without sine wave and with a very solid/powerful Shotokan-esque hard expression of the patterns. He learned the forms quite some time ago and the order he does them is different. He only has 20 of the forms and does Ko-Dang instead of Juche. So, if you are an ITF school, you may want to check out the order and the differences in doing them before committing to them. Personally I love the books and videos both.