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Subak
Subak is an important development in the evolution of Korean martial arts and one of the founding arts from which Tai Kwon Do derived much of its character; the style was one which relied heavily on kicking rather than grappling. One theory, which is widely believed amongst martial artists, is that Korean style places emphasis on kicking because the region from which Subak players originated was a mountainous area and so it would have been natural for practitioners to have strong legs. It is, however, more probable that the reason is found in another aspect of Korean culture.
This posture uniquely creates very flexible hips in Korean children from a young age.
Coupled with the fact that culturally Koreans still often sit on the floor to eat dinner and this sitting posture which encourages an upright spine, and cross legged, open hipped, type position it is therefore natural for Koreans to have flexible legs.
From 1909 Korea was occupied by Japan for 36 years and because of the Japanese ban on the practice of Korean martial arts, this conversely led to further increased the interest in nationalistic traditional Korean martial arts, naturally further fuelled the growth of Subak. Following Korean liberation in 1945 a number of schools opened in the capital each teaching their own version of traditional Korean martial arts but due to the disparate nature of many different schools it became difficult to form a regulatory board and it was not until 1955 that the various arts started to unify, two years later coming under the familiar name of Tae Kwon Do.
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