Koo Self Defense
Koo Self Defense is a
martial art training system developed by
Roger Koo in
1992. The purpose of the system is to improve fitness and health, and to prepare the student for real-world
fighting situtations. Roger Koo, with a background in
Tae Kwon Do and
Choi Kwang-Do, felt that too many martial arts focus on perfecting techniques and forms, which would translate poorly into real-life fighting and
streetfighting situations. Koo Self Defense instead focuses on improving fitness and developing devastating kicking and punching power, while helping each individual student develop his or her own style. The training consists of bodyweight exercises in many variations, like
pushups, stomach-crunches and ropeskipping,
yoga stretching exercises for flexibility, and high-intensity punching and kicking drills, with hand-held pads and
punching bags for resistance.
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Koo Self Defense
