Canadian Haidong Gumdo Association

Purpose of Learning Haidong Gumdo

The modern society, characterized by technology, information and globalization, has brought abundance of amenities and luxury to its members. However, it also brought corpulence, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and various diseases due to stresses.

Also, the materialism and the individualism has spread to the society and slowly becoming serious problems. Our society demands a cure for problems but the gap between the reality and the ideals are only growing deeper. Haidong Gumdo offers a solution to the problems. Self cultivating education and physical training of Haidong Gumdo will help the practitioners to increase confidence and patience, to relieve stresses and to build a healthy body. Through learning of etiquette, self control, meditation and breathing exercises, the practitioners learn the ideals of loyalty, filial piety, righteousness and faithfulness.

Therefore, the objective of Haidong Gumdo is to nurture individuals to have sound minds and bodies to make a better society, by providing its unique training and education.


Fundamental Principles of Haidong Gumdo


Haidong Gumdo Specialties

  1. You can deal with emergency situation or violence with self-defense training of Haidong Gumdo.
  2. Increase concentration level than any other ways, because Haidong Gumdo is using as sword.
  3. To overcome yourself, stresses and refine yourself with hard traning.
  4. Haidong Gumdo help student nourish their mind with obtaining patriotism, filial piety, royalty, and faithfulness.
  5. With Haidong Gumdo, you are request to use whole body to perform variety techniques.
  6. Haidong Gumdo helps improving muscle persistency, reaction, and balancing to your body.
  7. With practicing Haidong Gumdo, you will get a great deal of confidence.
  8. Haidong Gumdo combines breathing technique and meditation with hard training so that people can control their mind as well as their body.
  9. Haidong Gumdo can be learned from children to elders, both male and female.
  10. Haidong Gumdo is world Martial Arts that they have trained in 50 countries, about 1 million in the world.


Haidong Gumdo 10 commandments

  1. Quietly show respect before entering the dojang.
  2. Always keep the uniform clean and tidy.
  3. Be respectful of others and maintain a proper attitude in the dojang.
  4. Do not make excessive noise or disturb the atmosphere of the dojang.
  5. Do not practice right after eating a meal.
  6. Do not practice or even enter the dojang under influence of alcohol.
  7. Regard the sword as your life and be respectful when handling it
  8. Keep the dojang clean at all times.
  9. Do not criticize or look down on other martial arts.
  10. A student trying to master sword techniques should maintain an open mind and should not be jealous or easily agitated.