Young In University

On Wednesday and Thursday I went to visit a place I'd heard about since I started Taekwondo nearly 7 years ago. Young In University is a school well known for it's skills in teaching Korean martial arts as well as is where all of my Taekwondo instructors and interns studied. So it's pretty much a pilgrimage site for anyone from White Tiger visiting Korea. I luckily know several students in Korea who are either studying now or graduated from Young In, so I got a personal tour and several lessons from people who do martial arts professionally. (In Korea you're able to major in Taekwondo, Judo...) Anyway, it was amazing.

This is the main building. About five stories tall with two gyms to each floor that were bigger than any I've ever seen before.

The taekwondo gym. Isn't it beautiful?
One of the people I know at the school is on the demonstration team that travels internationally showing off highly trained skills. They practice for about 5-7 hours a few times a week. I got to join the morning part of one of the practices and learned alot. (In real life he jumps off a persons folded arms to do a back flip to hit the two paddles and lands. It's actually a boardbreaking skill) And finally a short clip of a short demonstration they did. This is called Taekwondo Areobics. The music is current Korean pop songs and the moves that are obviously not fighting moves are dance motions that go along with the songs. OK!