Sun Hwan Chung
| Sun Hwan Chung | |
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Sun Hwan Chung
10th Dan Taekwondo Grandmaster |
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| Born |
May 6, 1940 Hiroshima, Japan |
| Residence | United States |
| Style | Moo Sool Do: Taekwondo, Hapkido, Tang Soo Do, Moo Sool Gi, Ki Gon |
| Teacher(s) | Hwang Kee, Founder of Moo Duk Kwan |
| Rank |
10th dan (honorary) Moo Sool Do (Martial Arts United) 9th dan Taekwondo (Kukkiwon) 9th dan Tang Soo Do (Moo Duk Kwan) 9th dan Hapkido (Korea Hapkido Association) |
| Occupation | Martial artist |
| Website | Official website |
Sun Hwan Chung (born May 6, 1940), also known as James Sun Hwan Chung, is one of the highest-ranking taekwondo grandmasters in the world. He is founder of the Moo Sool Do (Martial Arts United) form of martial arts and is president of the World Academy of Martial Arts, LLC.
Sun Hwan Chung was born in Hiroshima, Japan and emigrated as a child to Korea. He began training in the martial arts when he was eight years old under Moo Duk Kwan founder Hwang Kee, and instructors Chang Young Chong (dan #15), Jong Soo Hong (dan #16), and Jae Joon Kim (dan #38). <3
He earned his first "black" belt (actually midnight blue) from Hwang Kee at age eleven. For three years (1963-1965) Chung won the Korean Tae Kwon Do National Championships. In 1966, he won the Asian Championship. From 1965 to 1968, Chung managed Hwang Kee’s main training dojang, located near Seoul Station (Jong Gu section of Dongja-dong) in downtown Seoul, Korea. Chung became proficient in several martial arts, studying Tang Soo Do, Hapkido, and Taekwondo. He created one of the essential poomse training forms for Tang Soo Do; Kicho Hyeong Sa Bu (Basic Form 4) as well as several others specific to Moo Sool Do.
During the 1960s, he was a martial arts combat instructor for the Korean military and active duty United States soldiers in Vietnam. In addition, he was a self-defense instructor to the Korean civilian police force and provided security services for the Korean national railroad system.
Chung was sent by Hwang Kee, in the second wave of Korean martial arts masters, to the United States on June 18, 1970. His American sponsor was Dale Drouillard, the first American to be recognized as a Cho Dan by Hwang. As a new arrival to the United States, Chung instructed at (Jae Joon) Kim’s Karate School in Grand River, Michigan. As representative of the dojang, he traveled the country and sparred with early legends Mariano Estioko (the second American to become a Cho Dan in the Moo Duk Kwan), David Praim, Russell Hanke, Pat E. Johnson, and hundreds of others, without losing a match. In addition to building a tremendous reputation worldwide as a ruthless fighter, Chung gained renown for his mental toughness, often performing demonstrations such as lifting large buckets of water using needles pierced in his arms and neck - while standing on broken glass, or having a car drive onto his chest. As his reputation grew, he gained many friendships with martial arts pioneers in the United States during the 1970s, including Sang Kyu Shim, Kang Uk Lee,Bong Soo Han, Jhoon Rhee, Mike Stone, and Chuck Norris.
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