Practice
In kumdo, yeonseup (practice) is the training activity, divided into basic practice without the face mask, paired practice with armor (daeryeon) and official matches. It should have the tension of a real fight.
How to say it
- Korean
- 연습yeonseup
- Spanish
- Práctica
- English
- Practice
- Japanese
- 稽古けいこkeiko
Yeonseup (연습) is the Korean word for «practice» and is used in kumdo for training in general.
According to Lee Jong-rim (Geomdo, 1995), cited on a university kumdo site, setting aside warm-up and cool-down, kumdo practice falls into three kinds: gibon suryeon (basic practice, done without the homyeon face mask), daeryeon (paired practice with the mask on) and official matches (gongsik gyeonggi).
- Yeongyeok (연격): the Korea Kumdo Association describes it as a practice method combining the front head strike with continuous left-and-right head strikes, bringing together the basic movements of kumdo. Its aims include posture, striking, footwork, distance, breathing, physical strength and fighting spirit.
- Sam dongjak chigi (3동작치기): a practice method that checks posture by splitting the movement into raising, striking and returning to the middle guard.
- Yeongong yeonseup (연공연습, continuous-attack practice) and hogyeok yeonseup (호격연습, practice between equals): the same university text says that in Korea free practice between equals is sometimes just called «yeonseup», and that the terms are not unified.
A club page of the Korea Kumdo Association says effective paired practice makes one strong in real combat and follows the ideals of kumdo. It also says practice should have the tension and fighting spirit (paiting, 파이팅) of a real fight.
A Korean source explains that the character «계» (稽) in 계고 (稽古) means «to think», so practice is «thinking of the old and practicing». That source links 연습 with 稽古.
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