hudo
In the kumdo bon (검도의 본), the hudo (후도) is the student's role. The hudo responds to what the seondo (선도), the teacher, leads and completes the exercise with a counter-technique.
How to say it
- Korean
- 후도hudo
- Spanish
- Quien sigue
- English
- hudo
- Japanese
- 仕太刀したちshitachi
The hudo (후도) is one of the two roles in the kumdo ui bon (검도의 본), the practice of pre-set forms commonly called kata. The two roles are the seondo (선도), the teacher, and the hudo, the student.
- The seondo leads the form. The hudo has to respond appropriately to what the seondo does, and the two together should achieve good timing.
- In teaching, the seondo stands in the teacher's position and the hudo in the disciple's, so the seondo's movement comes first and the hudo's second.
- In the first long-sword form (daedo 1-bon, 대도 1본), the seondo takes a left high guard and the hudo a right high guard.
- In the fourth long-sword form (daedo 4-bon, 대도 4본), the form is completed by the hudo's receiving and head strike, answering the seondo's thrust.
A Korean encyclopedic source says the set consists of 10 forms (seven with the long sword and three with the short sword), performed by two people who divide the roles. It also says the Korean Kumdo Association runs these forms in bamboo-sword style.
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