BLUE BELT INFORMATION
Joong Gun
(32 moves, left foot returns)
Is named after the patriot Ahn Joong-Gun who assassinated Hiro-Bumi Ito, the first Japanese governor-general of Korea, known as the man who played the leading part in the Korea-Japan merger. There are 32 movements in this pattern to represent Mr. Ahn’s age when he was executed at Lui-Shung prison (1910).
Toi Gye
(37 moves, right foot returns)
Is the pen name of the noted scholar Yi Hwang (16th century), an authority on neo-Confucianism. The 37 movements of the pattern refer to his birthplace on the 37th degree latitude, the diagram represents “scholar”.
Blue Belt signifies the heavens, toward which the plant develops into a towering tree as the Taekwondo training progresses.
