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When he began middle school he trave- to develop special martial art techniques
led to a nearby town and visited 3 se- for their counter terrorist agents. They nee-
parate martial art academies a day. Like ded a system that was quick to learn and
most young men he thought whatever he efficient. The desperate urgency was due to
was doing at that moment was the uni- a hijacked plane in ’77.
versal truth and encountered any plateau
with earnest. So completely immersed in As fate would have it a tragic event happe-
the arts he spent every waking moment ned on October 26, 1980 President Jung-
going through combinations in his mind. Hee Park was assassinated. This postponed
While in middle school and high school the actual systemization of the art now
he would subtly practice motions with his known as Teuk Gong Mu Sool.
fingers rather than pay attention in class.
Needless to say he got scolded for that a On April 21st, 1981 it became an official
few times. subject in the Korean military training re-
gimen. It encompassed eight internal and
He studied like that for 10 years practicing external arts that GM Park researched ex-
7 days a week, rain or shine. Soon after tensively. In 1986 it was actually set enough
he started formulating his own system in to be put into a textbook format.
his mind as it was taking too much time
in his schedule and there was so much The real test came during the mid ‘80’s
repetition between the academies. That when the South Korean military arranged
attitude became one of his mottos in his a sparring match between five 4th and 5th
life. “Take everything you know and make degree black belt officers and five North
something new” means anything in your Korean spies. The South Korean officers
life, not just the fighting arts. were humiliated to say the least. They were
put into a brutal three month crash course
In September 1977 he enlisted into man- training with GM Park to intensively study
datory military service and was placed the military’s new secret weapon. After the-
into an elite special guard unit until May re was a rematch and all five officers emer-
1980. There he learned sniper skills, bod- ged victorious.
yguard techniques, advanced pressure
points, survival skills, etc. Shortly thereafter GM Park took his proven
system to the Korean public and altered it
In late ’78 the Korean government wanted for all of society to benefit from it.

Literally it means Special Forces Martial Art.
In Korea mudo and musul have two diffe-
rent meanings. “Mudo” is a more modern
term as “do” is in Japanese arts. “Sul” in
Korean has a similar meaning as “jutsu” is
in Japanese arts. It’s older and infers higher
level skill for serious conflicts.

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