The Kuk Sool Won™ martial art contains
- Hand Striking: Closed and open hand striking methods, palm, wrist, and finger striking,
blocking and parrying, animal-style techniques, pressure point striking, striking
with arm and shoulder, specialised palm training, etc.
- Leg Techniques: foundation kicking, front leg kicking, spinning kicks, jumping kicks,
combination kicking, jump spinning kicks, double leg kicking, kicking
defence, pressure
point kicking, speciality kicking, etc.
- Throwing and Grappling: body throws, projection throws, wrestling techniques, leg
throws, ground fighting, pressure point grappling, grappling
defence, etc.
- Joint-Locking Techniques: pain throws, arresting and "come along" techniques, restraining
methods, joint breaking techniques, control and re-direction techniques, combination
joint locking, etc.
- Falling Techniques and Acrobatics: body protection techniques, throwing
defence,
acrobatics for body conditioning and agility, acrobatics for
defence and offence,
etc.
- Body Conditioning: stretching and flexibility training, cardiovascular conditioning,
muscle training, joint flexibility and bone conditioning.
- Animal-Styles Techniques: techniques based on the
movement and / or characteristics
of certain "martial" animals such as Tiger, Praying Mantis, Crane, Dragon, Bear,
etc.
- Traditional Korean Weapons: Straight sword, inverted sword, double sword, double
short sword, pole, jool bong (nunchaku), short stick, double short stick, spear,
cane, belt, folding fan, etc.
- Martial Art Healing Methods (beginning at Instructor Level): acupressure, acupuncture,
internal energy systems, herbal medicine, etc.
- Meditation and Breathing Techniques: Various Breath control techniques, Meditation
and Breathing postures, Concentration techniques etc.