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**HaseBeceDeemy** · 01-20-2006, 08:00 AM

crabbi, I have researched HDGD, the short version being that the two founders learned something called "shimgumdo" from some buddist monk who claimed he in turn learned it from "divine visions".
The "ki" exercises come from another rather obscure art called "gicheon" or something similar.

They taught it as "shimgumdo" until they sometime in the middle 80's renamed it haidong gumdo and made up some ridculous background story about "samurang" from ancient korea moving to Japan and laying the foundations for the japanese samurai caste.
All this 500 years before the bushi class appeared i Japan and around 1000 years before they started to be called samurai (also, the kanji for samurang are read as "shiburo" in japanese).

Why I'm interested in the contents of the file is because som HDGD-fanatic keeps editing the wikipedia-entry for it and I'm looking for sources to confirm the findings during the trial.

01-20-2006, 08:00 AM	#3
HaseBeceDeemy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 410 Senior Member	crabbi, I have researched HDGD, the short version being that the two founders learned something called "shimgumdo" from some buddist monk who claimed he in turn learned it from "divine visions". The "ki" exercises come from another rather obscure art called "gicheon" or something similar. They taught it as "shimgumdo" until they sometime in the middle 80's renamed it haidong gumdo and made up some ridculous background story about "samurang" from ancient korea moving to Japan and laying the foundations for the japanese samurai caste. All this 500 years before the bushi class appeared i Japan and around 1000 years before they started to be called samurai (also, the kanji for samurang are read as "shiburo" in japanese). Why I'm interested in the contents of the file is because som HDGD-fanatic keeps editing the wikipedia-entry for it and I'm looking for sources to confirm the findings during the trial.
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