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In Hyuk Suh - Founder of Kuk Sool
In Hyuk Suh is the founder,
Grandmaster and President of the World Kuk Sool Association. He has studied martial arts for more than fifty years, receiving
his first instruction from his Grandfather, Myung Duk Suh, master instructor of the Korean Royal Court Army. The Suh family
has practiced martial arts for the past sixteen generations. From among his children and Grand children,
Myung Duk Suh carefully selected one child to whom he would give the entire scope of his martial arts knowledge. That child was In Hyuk Suh. After his grandfather's
death, young Suh began to visit and learn from many different teachers. By the time he was twenty years of age, he had travelled to hundreds of Buddhist temples and private
martial arts teachers from whom he studied many different aspects of Korean martial arts.
It
was during this time that he met an old monk named Hai Dong Sea Nim, which translates to 'Great Monk of the Eastern Sunrise*. The old monk became In Hyuk Suh's second most influential teacher, passing on special
breathing skills, meditation techniques and internal power (Ki) skills. In the late 1950's In Hyuk Suh began to organise
and systemise the many scattered martial art techniques of Korea to produce a single Korean national martial art - Kuk Sool.
