SAMURANG GAMES 
  & Martial Arts Festival
April 5, 2025.
  Get ready . . . you don't
want to miss it!!! 
See Registration, Rules and Videos here.

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ARE YOU SAMURANG STRONG??? . . . We hope so because we are looking forward to our 22nd Samurang Games event held again at Falcon Park Recreation Center in Palatine, IL  on April 6, 2024.  

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     Friday afternoon April 4, 2025 starting at 3 pm:  Moo Do Won International will hold promotional testing for dan (black belt) ranks in Taekwondo, Gumdo, and Hapkido.

     Friday afternoon April 4, 2025 at 5:00 pm:  Moo Do Won International will host the "Masters Meet" mini seminars taught by visiting masters and grandmasters to our students and parent volunteers.

     Friday evening April 4, 2025 at 6:15 pm:  Moo Do Won International will host the "Masters Meet" for martial arts school owners and their staff.

    Saturday April 5, 2025:  The main event!  Samurang Games Tournament held from 10:00am to 5:30pm at Falcon Park Recreation Center in Palatine.  This is a great time and experience for both new or veteran athletes.

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   What is the Samurang Games? For newcomers, this is a festival style event (Hanmadang in Korean).  Samurang Games are a fun, competitive, exciting, motivating, inspiring and rewarding event held each year.  The tournament on Saturday is broken down into two catagories; contests and events.

 

CONTESTS:  These nine contests are standardized challenges that award prizes for reaching specific goals.

• Weapons and Warrior Obstacle category:  Weapons Throw, Thrust & Cut, and Warrior Obstacle Course.

• Kicking category:  Fast Roundhouse Kick, Spin Hook Kick, and Jump High Kick.

• Breaking category: Power Knige Hand or Hammer Fist Strike, Power Side Kick and Speed Knife Hand.

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EVENTS: The second category is the traditional events of Forms, Self-defense and Sparring. The ten events are:  

•  Form events: Individual forms (IF), Group/partner form (GF), Gumdo (sword) form (KGF), Open weapon (OW), and Group Weapon Form (GW).  

•  Self-Defense events:  Entertainment - theatrical, action movie style (SDE), and Tactical (SDT).

•  Sparring events:  Taekwondo Continuous (TS),  Soft Sword Engagement (SS), and Padded Stick One Handed (PS).  

There will be awards for all of the contests, including our very unique sparring and forms contest “trophies”.

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IMPORTANT:  BE SURE TO READ THE RULES FOR ALL EVENTS & THE NEW SCHEDULE OF EVENTS. 

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