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The martial art of Tang Soo Do is relatively modern. However it's basis, the Korean art of Soo bahk Do dates back many centuries. Tang Soo Do is a composite style being 60% Soo Bahk Do, 30% northern Chinese and 10% southern Chinese. Our kicking techniques, for which Tang Soo Do is unsurpassed, are based on Soo Bahk which was first developed during the Silla Dynasty (618-935) but enjoyed it's flowering during the Koryo Dynasty (935-1392).
Tang Soo Do is both a hard and a soft style,

sofderiving it's hardness from Soo bah Do and it's t flowing movements from the northern Chinese systems.
The man that developed Tang Soo Do was Grandmaster hwang Kee. At the age of 22 he traveled to northern China where he encountered a variation of martial artistry called the Tang Method. From 1936 to 1945 he combined the Tang Method with Soo Bahk Do and created Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan.