While waiting for some Chinese takeout earlier this week, I read a brochure for the local branch of Dahn Yoga. In addition to Yoga and Tai Chi, they now teach a martial art called DahnMuDo.
I had never heard of this martial art before, so I looked it up on the web:
DahnMuDo is an energy-based, non-combative, healing martial art, with roots dating back thousands of years into Korean history. In Korean, “Dahn” means energy. “Mu” means “martial,” or “limitless” and “Do (Tao)” means, “the way,” or, “the ultimate truth. DahnMuDo is therefore also known as “The Art of Being Limitless. Its mind-body training methods combine martial arts movements with universal energy principles to help practitioners circulate blood and energy through the body, and recover the natural balance and rhythm of the body and mind. Its goal lies in training the body and mind to become one.
Sounds good, but good marketing always does.
So what does DahnMuDo look like? A few form demonstrations are available on the official USA website and Korean 단무도 website, but I only found one video of actual DahnMuDo practice. Here it is:
DahnMuDo 18 Joint Dance
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Conflict Resolution: A Casualty of Non-Violent Martial Arts // Mar 18, 2007
[…] Members of the second category of non-combative martial arts are not necessarily pacifist in disposition, but are nevertheless harmless due to their complete lack of non-cooperative practice. In the absence of testing, formerly proven attack and defense techniques decay into empty symbolism. Dahnmudo apparently belongs to this second category, as do those schools of taiji that omit tui shou and san shou from their curriculum. […]
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