Generally speaking, when you try to understand poomsae of Taekwondo, you cannot but go in vain if you understand everything only in words and thoughts. Instead, if you understand poomsae with the sweat from your endurance and self discipline, even only this can lead you to the truth of TAEKWONDO. For concept is related to action although both are not same. To the contrary, experience and understanding are closely related, so when there is man's life with its adaptation the entire experience itself can be the very understanding.

When you perform a poomsae it is important to unify your spirit all the way having both power and tide in oneness, which is called "ruling <Ki> in whole". Ruling <Ki> in whole does not at all mean keeping the power and tide same always but having them in harmony and consistency as a whole. It is like singing a beautiful song, which is harmonious with consistency even though it includes both the quick and slow and the high- and low-pitched tones. You can obtain it ruling breath and concentrating your mind. Ruling <Ki> in whole you can accord sseuimsae and sseuimnal in a whole, and further, complete each motion of poomsae and complete the whole process, and you can understand perfection through lookout for life.

When <Ki> is ruled in whole each motion of poomsae comes to get the proper pose and speed in consideration of the relation to the supposed opponent, his physical condition and the efficiency of training. Just as each motion of dancing gets related to another's position to be complete in a flow of a rhythmical stream. Isn't every movement even of a finger always in performance of following a flow in the entire flow of dance in case it were a good dance. In this way, even though it were a simple movement of dance it has the strong power because it moves in the whole. Thus, the dance of a good dancer is beyond a short catch and has enough power to hit the opponent felling him down with a hand use or a foot use in spite of its smooth appearance, as a rock which has rolled from far away can destroy a building with the power of its rolling from far away. Try always to perform exact poses and to make every motion in its own distinctive speed with full meaning, like those in a dance. Then, the training through poomsae will be as hard as any other one while it will be very easy to control over the opponent actually after all steps of the training, instead. These reasons relate perfect dance to martial arts(Mu-yae). Beautifulness and usefulness are same in the state of immersion.

And when you perform motions in poomsae you should control every movement not with your force but with your mind. Although you discern sseuimsae and sseuimnal in poomsae, if you control them with your mind, you can unify both in one with a will of suppressing the opponent down. Then, even though one of <sae> and <nal> were insufficient the other would support it, so that <sae> and <nal> will not restrict each other. No matter how flexible a body be it cannot be more flexible than mind and no matter how fast you walk your walk cannot be faster than your mind, and although you have hard body and abundant power they would be of no use without the mind to use them. Therefore, only when you control your mind at will you can accord smoothness, speed and power in each movement to the best of your ability. Then when you unify your body and mind you cannot but make right motions naturally with no restriction on the power by your body, and this is the no-self-restriction.

The reason that Taekwondo man trains himself of poomsae is not that he pursues to gain something. There must be a complete emptyness of abandoning everything at the end of poomsae training. How is it possible not to be restricted by self without that emptyness of abandoning self? When you've abandoned everything completely the unnecessary "You" will disappear with only the nature left, and then you will know that to gain is not different from to abandon. Like these, in the training process to get mastery of poomsae and to make its true harmony, you should understand its formality as skills at first and then train yourself of poomsae through thousands of repetition and the enlightment. Then you can get true Taekwondo.