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This is the home page for the primary web site for the Yong Moon Moo Kwan.

Welcome.

Kung Fu is a martial art -- from the grand tradition that started in India with Yoga, moved to China to become Kung Fu, and then to Japan where many of the components of Kung Fu were re-arranged as to sequence of teaching to become Karate.

In the absence of any strong central authority for any of THESE arts, there have developed dozens, even hundreds, of "other" "practices." Many of these claim to be "the" one, or don't even claim to have authentic roots.

And, there are many who say that the old stuff is too ancient and needs to be replaced not only with modern martial arts, but in particular with modern methods of teaching them.

In the beginning Yoga was developed as THE means of achieving spiritual salvation -- when even the term "spiritual salvation" had no definition or agreed meaning.

The earliest source of data on Yoga comes along the oral tradition starting with the ancient Veda, presumably written in Sanskrit some 10,000 years ago.

There is no possibility that any original source of any such wisdom could have survived, physically, through these many thousands of years -- so we have an ancient wisdom (the Veda) passed down through time in an "oral tradition" and supplying an ever-growing number of people with a vague resource from which they could claim their own origins, finally of Yoga, the Kung Fu.

Even today, in many places in Asia, there are groups of martial artists who give themselves the label of this or that and claim or do not claim to offer both spiritual enlightenment as well as physical body health and abilities.

The single most difficult aspect of all this rich history is to find any thread of source material that has remained pure -- so there is no hope in taking any present practice of any martial art and tracing it back to some "original form."

The best we can do is to take the present forms, find the best sources in Sanskrit that support its philosophy and then build on that with a melding to current knowledge of the physical sciences.

This web site presents some of that story.

Let us start with the every-day practice of breathing.

There is no question that most Westerners "don't know how to breathe!"

The proper breathing is IN through the nose and OUT through the nose.

And feeling of a need to gasp for air, opening the mouth to get more air, is an admission of poor training and never reaching even the lowest of the levels of Black Belt that any Martial Artists aspires to.

Let's look at this with Western Logic and Science.

Muscles create energy by combining the oxygen that comes along in the blood flow with the

There are many pages ready to view - the drop-down menu will give you the references and links. As of now this "menu," called "drop down menu" is your best way of finding things. The "drop down" menu is at the top of every page -- it consists of the line of words with light-colored backgrounds on the shaded page.

Run your mouse over any of these words and as soon as your mouse hits one of them there is a menu of other words (links) which "drops down" into view. Sometimes these items will have little arrows pointing to the side and when you slide your mouse pointer to that item there is yet another menu that opens sidewise -- with more words and links.

In due course this page will be revised to show what we consider to be the central information about Yong Moon Moo Kwan.