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emphasize the Korean reliance on high kicking, large movements and flashy leaps and acrobatics. One variant evolved, however, in New York City where a Korean practitioner named Min Kyu Pai began teaching the style after emigrating to the United States in the 1950s. His early efforts led to the introduction of the style to parts of
Central America through one of his students, Francisco Miranda, who helped popularize karate in his native country of El Salvador.
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of tai chi caught up with its younger sibling and became equally well-known, if not more so, at least in the martial arts community. However, there are several other recognized styles, including Wu-Hao, Wu, and Sun styles. Min Pai, who trained in Yang style tai chi under Cheng Man-ch'ing, brought about marked changes in the methods he taught in his later years.
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named "taekwondo" and which developed a standardized approach to training and methods that differed in many ways from the older transplanted
Japanese-sourced karate styles it had come from. The aim of the creators of taekwondo was to unify the diverse methods and practices of the art and put their own Korean stamp on it.
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English language movies. But he found his true vocation when he began teaching the Korean fighting art he had become accomplished in back home. In the early days of his involvement in the martial arts scene he would seek new skills by apprenticing himself to more senior karate masters, Stewart has stated, like
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name as there appears to have been a second Korean karate "kwan", with the "Yun Moo Kwan" appellation established after the closing of the original Chosun Yun Mu Kwan, the advent of the Korean War and the older style's subsequent revival as
Jidokwan. According to KANG Won Sik and LEE Kyong Myong, in
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Shimano Roshi. He turned his New York City school over to two of his senior black belts, James Stewart and Carolyn Campora. Campora continues teaching today. In 1995, Pai began devoting himself exclusively to monastery affairs, teaching only a small cadre of students until his death in 2004.
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to feel and facilitate the yielding techniques before incoming force, and "circular bodily movement," around an imaginary central axis, to manage and redirect incoming attacks). In 1992, Pai essentially retired from teaching and relocated to a Zen monastery which he had arranged to have built with
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Yang Luchan's style of tai chi, thanks to his reputation and skills, became the most widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By the 20th century, it had become the best-known version of tai chi practiced worldwide. In the late 20th century, due to China's opening, the older Chen style
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Pai had come to the United States at the age of twenty and, according to one of his successors, James
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the taekwondo family rather than as active, stand-alone styles. But the Yun Mu Kwan name lingers in different places. There are still practitioners, for instance, using "Yun Moo Kwan" or "Yun Mu Kwan," particularly in parts of Latin
America. For the most part, these practitioners have continued to
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to be restarted (at war's end) under different instructors and with the new name of Ji Do Kwan (or
Jidokwan), meaning the Hall (or Institute) of Wisdom's Way. Eventually Jidokwan would be absorbed, along with most of the other original Korean "kwans," into the new national art which was ultimately
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competition champion, Monroe Marrow, although there was often resistance to the
Chinese techniques his students frequently brought to their matches since karate tournament judges of the time were unfamiliar with (and so unwilling to credit) these moves. Pai eventually distanced himself from the
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Magazine in the late 1960s. The school was close to New York City's
Chinatown district and, as a result, Pai became deeply involved with a number of local Chinese martial artists who were then teaching their arts nearby (mostly behind closed doors in those days). Pai's methods of practice and of
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On returning to Seoul, Chun began teaching the art to judo students at the Yun Mu Kwan and eventually became the head instructor there. However, Chun taught at the Yun Mu Kwan for only a few years prior to the break out of hostilities between North and South Korea, having disappeared during that
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of Chun Sang Sup produced more than one offshoot school. According to the U.S. Taekwondo Han Moo Kwan website, its founder, Kyo Yoon Lee, having originally trained under Chun at the Yun Mu Kwan, initially began teaching Korean karate under the Jidokwan banner at the end of the
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Some practitioners of the original kwans, including some using the "tang soo do" name (another Korean version of the original meaning of the Japanese term "karate-do"), remained outside the new system of "taekwondo" while both Jidokwan and Han Mu Kwan exist today largely
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teaching slowly began to change through contact with these martial artists and the absorption of elements from their systems into his. Pai's activities in the 1960s and later were documented by Ramon Korff, a staff photographer, in 1964, for
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students, but subsequently left to found his own school which he dubbed Han Moo Kwan. In later years he maintained that his school actually traces its roots back to the former Chosun
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a returning Korean university student who had picked up karate during his university days in Japan began teaching it at the Yun Mu Kwan. His background had been in
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