Musado
The musado is a modern martial art which is divided into two branches: the traditional musado destined for civil persons and the Musado MCS (Military Combat System) destined for the army and the police. The term musado (from Korean language) means "the way of warrior". Nevertheless, the musado is a German martial art, based on the Korean arts.
The international centre of the musado is in Dortmund.
The grand master of the musado is Herbert Grudzenski (1947-September 20, 2012) from Germany, the main instructors for the Czech Republic are Oldřich Šelenberk and Antonín Sokol.
Traditional musado
The traditional musado derives from Korean traditional martial arts such as taekwondo, hapkido [1] & Kuk Sool Won. Many of the techniques tailored more for European physical capabilities while maintaining the Korean martial arts mindset [2] though Grudzenski himself was also a black belt in Judo & Jujitsu.[3]
The beginning of the musado is dated as from 1968.
Technical levels in the traditional musado
The traditional musado has 6 levels (1.-6. kup) of student which are marked by colour (see the table). Differently from the majority of the martial arts the student does not have a belt since the beginning. Only to the term of the course which lasts 2–4 months there is capacity to pass examination for the white belt.
| grade | colour | belt |
| 6. kup | white | 
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| 5. kup | orange | 
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| 4. kup | yellow | 
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| 3. kup | green | 
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| 2. kup | blue | 
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| 1. kup | brown | 
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| 1. dan | black | 
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The belts go up until ninth dan, dan is marked on the belt with Roman numeration written with golden letters. In the Czech Republic, the most graduated is Antonín Sokol (4. dan).
Code of honour of the practitioners of musado
The code of honour is a modern version of the code of ancient Korean units Hwarang.
Oath
- Loyalty to own country
- Loyalty to the teaching and to the instructors, with respect to the parents
- Confidence and fraternity among friends
- Courage when facing an enemy
- Never kill without cause
Moral and ethical principles
After taking oath the student must adhere to these moral and ethical principles (kyohun; Korean terms):
Musado Military Combat System
The Musado MCS is a military system of personal defence and of body-to-body combat, designed especially for training of the army, of the police and of other forces of security.
The musado also is used in training of the special units, for example of the units of aerial war, of the brigades of rapid reaction and of the brigades of the UNO.
In the army of the Czech Republic this system was introduced in 1993.
Musado MCS does not have any rules precisely given. However, with its vast extension it provides more than 4000 techniques and skills which with good mastery enable the warrior to stop an attack.
References
- ↑ "Musado". www.southcentraltaekwondo.com.
- ↑ "KDO BYL HERBERT GRUDZENSKI? - MUSADO CZ – Tradiční styl". tm.musadocz.cz.
- ↑ "WMA - Verband". 5 May 2014.
Other websites
- (in Czech) Official page of the musado
- (in Czech) Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic History of the musado
- (German) German organization of the musado Archived 2018-03-19 at the Wayback Machine