In training of Taekwondo its beginning and its end accord in one same thing, which is just the basic of Taekwondo. Getting mastery in basic motions of Taekwondo is both the beginning and the end of all training. Many common people, often with bad understanding, seek to find TAEKWONDO in the gorgeous surface or the fierce sparring actions. It is necessary, however, that the enlightened man knows the ultimate principle in rather in commonnes and naivete so that he does not reveal his strongness.

What is the basic of Taekwondo? It is what has all necessary factors of Taekwondo as compressed and summarized. And it is the joint that directly relate man and TAEKWONDO. A man, training himself of the basics, advances in perfect TAEKWONDO and completes it. Owing to this, everyone begins his Taekwondo with training of the basics while the man who has gone through all training returns finally to the last step, the training of basics again. Although the basic looks simple it is related to every skill and its system of the entire Taekwondo, so, it includes every principle and skill of all motions. When the ancient people made the basics, they formed them not with instant ideas but with the much accumulated experience of the collected and reshaped for loing time, and this actual experience of long time is the source of vitality from which the basic of Taekwondo springs. Therefore, the meaning of basic is multitude dimensional, and thus, infinite though simple. From what viewpoint a motion is to be considered determines how much effective it can be.

On the other hand, the basic is the foundation of universality Taekwondo has. Brilliant and difficult technique of kicking and punching can be very effective in particular cases, yet incapable of protecting yourself and controling over the opponent. The Taekwondo man who performs gorgeous and difficult skills can be valuable because they are accomplished on the firm accumulated basics. A good building can stand always after firm foundation work. Just as it is the foundation that support the whole giant building when the earth shakes, what makes you able to control over the opponent adapting yourself with no mistake to unexpected emergent situation it is the basics of Taekwondo Everything always returns to one and the one stands in its own place as invisible.

Thus, everything of TAEKWONDO lies hidden in the basic on one hand, and boundless changes and applications of each Taekwondo motion are possible along the center of this basic. Therefore, also when a Taekwondo man fights with opponents, however more or less, his performing the perfect basic motions in tangled relations with opponents will bring the natural control over any opponent, which is to protect yourself with no resistance relying on <Do>. What more would be required to protect yourself controling over the opponent?

The basic motions of Taekwondo can include everything of Taekwondo like this because Taekwondo is simple as the principle of everything is simple, too. When a man cuts off everything from him he can get this simplicity and the the right Taekwondo appears. When you cut off everything of yours every artificial things will disappear deleting everything that hides TAEKWONDO. Taekwondo always lies in a Taekwondo man, but never out of him. The right Taekwondo motion which accords with a man is always the simplest one because the man who does Taekwondo has only this simplicity left abandoning all his unnecessary things. It is the true himself. The simple, it is both difficult and easy.