A man's ability of Taekwondo appears invisibly even in his trivial motion when he moves and is to be felt also in a pose when he stays. To see them is Taekwondo man's mind. TAEKWONDO is in motions, then how is it possible the figure of Taekwondo is to be found with the appearance of your ability even in a stable pose?

Just as a line is not a mere chain of points a motion is not a mere chain of stable poses that stay in particular spacial psitions. A motion cannot be made of series of stable poses. How can a stable rock, even though it moved forward moment by moment, be same as a rolling rock? The difference between motion and stay is not that in degree but that in essential being. A bead is not in stay once it were rolling, no matter how slow it may roll. Thus, for the change between motion and stay, there should be, even though invisible, continuous movement hidden in it. The world is already full of movements and continuous changes, in which a man keeps his living. Therefore, a pose of Taekwondo, though it showed no motion outward, always has constant motion unseen in it.

There are some cases that you make a pose with a little or no motion because you have to arrange and adapt yourself in changes of surroundings with no confusion. This standstill, however, includes ultimate tension which is about to explode between you and the opponent, and it is not different form a motion. This is why you get tired only on the watch for your opponent. Not only in a pose but also in the whole you should meet yourself with a standstill that contains movement while you meet your opponent with a movement that contains standstill. This is Taekwondo and the man who watch on himself and face the opponent with this is Taekwondo man. Therefore, making s shape, mere this cannot be the essence of Taekwondo pose. To get control over the opponent and protect yourself, and thus actually controling him and protecting you by itself now is the essence of Taekwondo pose. Thus, even when a Taekwondo man stay in a pose with no movement he keeps possibility of every change in each part of his pose, and also when he moves continuously he always establishes consistent self.

In this manner, a pose is an expression of your mind to a certain figure through the body. A good pose consists in an accordance of mind and body and out of it lies bad one. Your pose reveals the possibility of your movements. Between the subject which recognizes and its object which is phenomena the possibility determines actually the reality. Therefore, your pose determines your motions and it reveals your ability.

There are three factors you have to pay attention to when you observe the opponent's pose; the first is his intention, the second his sight, and the third the center of his body. Observing the location of his center you can guess which foot or which hand he will use in attack and how far the attack will reach. Observing his sight you can know what is his target, and reading his intention you can know what and how he wants to deceive you. If you fail to read his intention, even when you paid attention to his sight, you can be easily deceived, if you observe only his center yet fail to catch his sight you will expose yourself to unexpected attacks. Thus, you should penetrate his center and sight at a glance and must not lose them, and you should be able to read what he intends by a feel. This is possible only when you open your mind. So you see yourself with the mind directed to your opponent and protect you with the mind of helping him.

Taekwondo man cannot but strain himself fully and tightly when he makes a pose ready for a kyorugi against his opponent. In spite of this tight strain, however, you must on the other hand keep reserve in your pose with no strain so that your body is soft in relaxed state with concentration of your mind in reserved composure. The tight strain exists between you and the opponent and in the relation to the world. Thus, it must be in the world and in yourself yet must not be in your muscle and skeleton. The strain that is not in muscle nor skeleton but in yourself is that of your whole. The muscle and skeleton should be just ready reconciled with the whole harmony. What a big strain it must be!

Thus, a good pose of Taekwondo is itself like having hidden bombs all around you so that you should be able to explode your fist, kick, trunk and energy at your opponent without fail as soon as he invades. But nothing is visible. Gunpowder is merely a sort of powder and shows no flame of explosion in its original figure. This is very like the strain of Taekwondo.

On the other hand, a good bomb does not explode easily even with somewhat shock. However its explosive power which is caused by a shock from its percussion lockis rather amazing. The pose of Taekwondo man should be like this not only in doing Taekwondo but also in all life general, and the percussion lock of Taekwondo man is the moral judgement for all the people. This sort of good pose of Taekwondo, which is both strained and not strained, differs from your daily self in that it has more possibility in every part and standspot of the Taekwondo man is one pole in his relation to the world in spite of its commonness. At the same time, it is same as his daily self and so, it never shows itself out.