There is something you have to keep in mind all the way whenever you practice poomsae; poomsae is never serial motions made by only you alone but it always relates an opponent with you. This opponent is not seen to anothers while seen to Taekwondo man who practices poomsae. Therefore, the poomsae which excludes him stops being a poomsae right away. And it stops being Taekwondo, too.

Poomsae, as the best way of acting in the relation to the supposed opponent, was not formulated by a chance but through the infinite experience and wisdom of the old people. Therefore, a Taekwondo man who is in practice of poomsae does not fight merely alone yet together with wisdom of old seniors. A true wisdom cannot all the way be something fixed yet it moves with its life in reality. The wisdom of Taekwondo in poomsae looks like a closed formality, however, it opens infinite possibility of new creation in spite of its strict formality. The right Taekwondo is nothing but the creation in temperate formality. Then, freedom arises with no contradiction even in the complete regularity.

So, poomsae consists only in the limited pattern while it can be open into infinite possibility when performed by a man who interpretes new meaning of each motion of the poomsae and then heeps its uses on his finger tips. Not knowing this freedom no one can understand the ultimate implication of poomsae. Therefore, we ought to find every meaing hidden here and there more than merely imitate the motions.

In this manner, to do poomsae is not to restrict you within the formality of poomsae but to free you toward the nonregularity through the aisle of generality in poomsae. This is possible only after you've got skilled by way of regularity in poomsae. Therefore, while poor formality disturbs freedom that of Taekwondo poomsae never interferes with freedom ultimately. The formality of poomsae rather creates freedom and exists with freedom.