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About Grand Master Kang Jun!
Gang Jun, the president of the association, was born in year 1969, May 27th in Seoul Korea.
During the 5th grade, at age 10, he entered the Japanese martial art called Pal Kwang Ryu Yu Sul, led by his father’s guidance.

At that time, he studied martial art under Grand Master Ki Taek Lee who was a good friend of Gang Jun’s father.
Pal Kwang Ryu Yu Sul was called “Hakkoryu Jujutsu” in Japan and was taught in Korean style to the students
instead of Japanese style Yu Sul.
Gang trained Pal Kwang Ryu Yu Sul about four years when he was in middle school (at age 14).
Later, he spent times as a Ju Do player and then becomes a master in Hap Ki Do. He also falls into modern martial arts such as
Kick Boxing, Kyuk Tu Gi, and etc.

Later, he also trained in Judo, Hapkido, Geumdo (Kendo), Taekwondo, Kyuktoogi, Teuk Gong Moo Sul, Taekkyon among other Korean and Japanese martial arts. He studied various theories between traditional martial arts and combat style. After he distinguished the difference between the traditional style and combat style, he established Gong Kwon Yu Sul in 1996, and he spent 2 years to build the system of techniques. In 1998, his martial art was officially called “Gong Kwon Yu Sul”.

His enthusiasm for learning martial arts never declined. He has devoted his life to martial arts. He even majored in Tae Kwon Do at HSD University.

The birth of GongKwon YuSul!
Before Grand Master Gang Jun opened his own institution, he loved to teach many instructors since he became a master in Hap Ki Do.
Many Korean martial artists were stick to tradition styles, so his senior or junior members did not show interest in his new theories
and techniques.
But, he believed that, one day the world will acknowledge his unique martial art styles.
Korean traditional martial arts had a weak point and that are they only focused on kicking instead of sparring.
Throughout his Judo experience, he discovered that Yu Sul techniques are very efficient in actual fighting. So,
he thought it would be a great idea if a school offers striking, kicking, and grappling techniques all at once.
However, he could not find any places like that in Korea.
Then, he began to wonder about the realities of life, and he started to study his own unique techniques of martial art theories. He
was 16 years old (in 1958).
He wanted to pursue a system of techniques that is not sports, but traditional martial arts that is effective in actual fighting.
He thought that it would be very important to keep both current techniques and traditional theories and concepts.
In 1996, he opened his own school “Combat Style Hap Ki Do” as a school slogan, and he taught his style of martial art to his students.
His unique techniques shocked many people.
Yet, many Korean have tried these techniques, and many people thought his styles were street fighting.
Nevertheless, those who were trained under him could feel his theoretical, martial artistic and traditional techniques.

Many students from Grand Master Gang Jun, suggested him to name his martial arts as Gang Jun style of new
system. Later, Grand Master Gang Jun accepted their request and found a name “Gong Kwon Yu Sul.”

There was an interesting episode about the name of “Gong Kwon Yu Sul” and the logo.
Grand Master Gang Jun began to spend many times to think of Gong Kwon Yu Sul logo.
He started to ponder about the logo so that it could look good and beautiful, and how to deliver the message about the meanings of
Gong Kwon Yu Sul through the logo. But, this was very difficult to do it.

Grand Master Gang Jun loved to do Korean Tradition pole and line fishing.
The pole and line fishing is, you sit around the edges of the pond or river and you tie up some preys with a string on the long bamboo
looking stick, and you catch the fish.
This type of fishing is very traditional in Asia.
It would be impossible to catch a fish if there were no fishes around, therefore you need to wait long period of time.
During spring time, he went out to reservoir near his house to do the pole and line fishing.

It was very sunny and breezy day.
Right after he returned home from fishing at late night, he fell into deep sleep and began to dream.
In his dream, he sees himself doing fishing same exactly what he did during the day at the same place.
Then, he finds an old white haired man sitting beside him and doing fishing with him. The old man was very gentle, and later Grand Master Gang Jun begins to chat with him about him having hard time naming his martial art.
After listening to his story, the old man hands over a piece of red paper to Grand Master Gang Jun. Right after he opens the paper, he awoke from his dream.
He saw a clock, and the hour hand was pointing at 3.
He was half awake. He began to jot down the message that he got from the old man in his dream. Then, he fell into sleep again.
He wakes up in early in the morning, and sees a memo on the table that he wrote during the dawn.
It was either a strange Chinese character or an ancient character with a big circle as he never seen this before.
He begins to search to find the meaning of this character. However, a person who knows Chinese character very well, says that this character does
not exist. That means this character does not exist on the earth.
He put “Gong Kwon Yu Sul” inside the circle instead of the unknown character.
In his dream, the circle was drawn with black color, but he picked red color to give significant meaning of circle.
Therefore, the name of Gong Kwon Yu Sul was established with its logo.