Shoulder guard
The shoulder guard (음세, eumse) is one of the guard postures (겨눔세) of kumdo. A Korean glossary describes it with the jukdo raised, the right hand in front of the right shoulder and the left hand at the solar plexus.
How to say it
- Korean
- 음세eumse
- Spanish
- Guardia sobre el hombro
- English
- Shoulder guard
- Japanese
- 八相の構えはっそうのかまえhassō-no-kamae
The shoulder guard (음세, eumse) is one of the guard postures, called 겨눔세 (gyeonunse), in kumdo. A Korean promotion-exam answer sheet defines a 겨눔세 as a posture in which body and mind are unified and no small opening is left. It classifies the postures, taking the natural posture as the base, as jungdan (middle), sangdan (upper), hadan (lower), yangse and eumse.
According to a Korean-language kumdo glossary, in this posture:
- the jukdo (bamboo sword, 죽도) is held upright with the blade facing the opponent;
- the right hand is in front of the right shoulder and the left hand is at the solar plexus (명치, myeongchi);
- the practitioner looks at the opponent over his or her own left shoulder;
- the glossary also calls it the "tree posture" (木의 대세).
The glossary's English gloss is "right shoulder sword posture" and it equates the term with hasso-no-kamae.
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