Introduces the Korean art of self-defense, which combines the use of hands and feet to evade, deflect, or counter an attack, with historical background, information on basic skills, general techniques and training, and diagramed moves and stances.

Every 1st degree black belt student is required to learn the Koryo kata, but few are familiar with the ancestral formal exercise "Original Koryo". Written specifically for black belt students, this book presents Original Koryo and Koryo, as well as the martial applications encoded in these forms.--Publisher.