Taekwondo begins from you who is with your opponent. Thus, it is desirable that you, who practice Taekwondo, always train yourself with your opponent, which, however, is not always possible. And there are some cases where it is rather more helpful to train by yourself, and it should also be stated that it is difficult to keep secure from the extremely powerful Taekwondo. Observing all of these the old people invented a good method for a learner to train himself alone, which is the Poomsae.

Poomsae is the established pattern focused on skills that standardized right motions every Taekwondo man should follow in most universal situations. Doing poomsae a Taekwondo man learns how to control his body most properly in the continuous skills. The opponent is always supposed in poomsae as an enemy. Taekwondo poomsae is the sparring with such imaginary opponent. Therefore, poomsae does not differ from kyorugi in its essence. The fact that the opponent is already in poomsae as an image determines the essence of poomsae. The Taekwondo man, doing poomsae, knows that making perfect motions does not differ at all from making motions harmonized with his opponent.

The fact that poomsae has a supposed opponent in it is the essential difference which distinguish Taekwondo from dance. This difference, however, is also nothing at the same time. For every actual entity does not distinguish itself from another by itself, and every motion of man is same as another in one kind. Therefore, a perfect dance can be a perfect Taekwondo and vice versa. Both of them are same in that they are man's motion and also in that they are the best motion which expresses yourself.

This poomsae is made of forms along which to practice motions and everyone is taught to follow those ways. This formality of poomsae is based on the limitedness of man's action. It means, when the opponent attacks you his attack has some randomness, which, however, cannot but be restriced in its formal limits. The reasonable, and so, good ways of the opponent's attacking you from a certain pose can be several kinds but they are still within limits. It is possible for you to defend those attacks with a particular formulated action. For the formulated action also includes some randomness. When you block your opponent's truning kick you can add some change in so many ways of varying its height and twisting some part as he can kick you in various ways within limits of that kick.

The formality of poomsae is also resulted from another aspect of natural law. It is the firm ragularity, which is found at the end of the life and death out of all intended rules, for example, limits that the opponent with two fists cannot make an attack composed of three fists no matter how fast he moves and that he can move only to one direction among forward, backward, upward, downward and asides. Considering them all, we know the law of nature does not differ from that of man.