What Is Mirae Mu Sool?
Williston Martial Arts Center is a member of United Mirae Korean System (UMKS) which is an organization of schools around the world who all teach Mirae Mu Sool. Mirae Mu Sool is a system of studying the entirety of the traditional martial arts of Korea, encompassing 5,000 years of Korean martial history. Because of this, Mirae Mu Sool is comprehensive and the curriculum contains much of one might expect to see in a martial art, plus much more..
What do we teach?
The below black belt curriculum (white, yellow, blue, red, brown, brown-black) contains many different new and more challenging versions of the techniques listed below.
Kicking
Hand Strikes
Pressure Points
Joint Locks
Throws
Acrobatics and safe falling
The Mirae Mu Sool curriculum includes traditional Korean weapons, beginning at white belt with jool bong or "nunchacku" as they are also known and then progressing with the following weapons as a student becomes more advanced.
Staff
Sword
Short Staff
Spear
The practice of Mirae Mu Sool has many benefits outside of the practical self-defense skills which form the curriculum, to which both new and seasoned practitioners can attest. These include:
Extending physical ability as the body ages
Increasing memory capacity
Improving flexibility
Learning perseverance, self-control,and compassion
Teaching good manners, safe behaviors, and respect for everyone regardless of physical ability, race, politics or religion