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Community

A place for admins to discuss plans for the site, give recommendations, and leave notes about changes, problems, glitches, troublemakers, digestive complaints, etc.

Not a member and have a general question or comment? Post it here. If you choose to register, remember that we have a real name ID policy.

Share important news in this forum. Seminars, Promotions, Births, Accidents and Injury, Achievements, and other notes about life.

For announcing or seeking help finding things relating to HDGD. Equipment vendors, dojangs, etc.

A place to converse and build a sense of community with fellow sword lovers around the globe. Can't think where to post or look for something? Try here.

Share authentic news stories and the links to them here. Keep people posted about movers and shakers in the HDGD world, as well as other sword news, like registry laws, crime, and fraud.

For discussion of anything relating to a Regional HDGD Championship of any size: dojang, inter-dojang, city, provincial/state, region, national, or international.

For posts of a commercial nature, such as selling used equipment, cutting material, equipment servicing, etc.

This is where members can introduce themselves to other forum members.

Academic and Technical Aspects

For questions and advice on crossing the Language Barrier.

For discussion of philosophical and seemingly mystical elements of HDGD and martial arts in general - particularly toward how Korean arts and theories differ from her more well-known neighboring countries.

For discussion of Korean and Asian history, developmental history of sword and weapon design, styles, trends, and influences.

For discussion of swords, all the things we cut, and how we cut them.

For discussion of how to bring our theories and training into reality.

For discussion of ideas for rousing martial arts demonstrations.

A forum exclusively for instructors of HDGD

Gumbub

For discussion of any part of the curriculum for HDGD students.

For discussion of the first series of forms in HDGD: ssang-su gumbub.

For discussion of the second series of forms in HDGD: yedo gumbub.

For discussion of the third series of forms in HDGD: bonguk gumbub

For discussion of the fourth series of forms in HDGD: Jangbaek Gumbub.

For discussion of the body mechanics of HDGD both in forms and in principle.

For discussion of the many other sword martial arts. [Eastern or Western]