GongKwon Yusul

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Gongkwon Yusul


Focus	Hybrid
Creator	Kang Jun
Parenthood	Hapkido, Hakko-ryu jujutsu, judo and Kyutooki
Olympic Sport	no
Official Site	http://www.gongkwon.com.au

Gongkwon Yusul is a modern Korean martial art system founded by Kang Jun in 1996. Its main influences include the martial arts of hapkido, hakko-ryu jujutsu, judo and Kyutooki (Korean style Thai-boxing) and contains a range of both Striking and grappling techniques. It is a system intended to be applied in practical, free-flowing situations. Gongkwon Yusul attempts to combine the practical, free-flowing technique application, often seen in mixed martial arts, whilst it also it retaining many traditional martial art attributes, such as uniforms, terminology, ranking structure.

The art has grown rapidly in its home county of Korea with around fifty gyms currently teaching Gongkwon Yusul in South Korea.^{[citation needed]} Outside of Korea there are currently only three locations this art is taught, the first in Brazil, the second and third are in Melbourne and Launceston, Australia.