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The Pyung Ahn Forms are taught in the WMTKDA starting at sixth gup (green belt). One new form is required at each rank, except 4th which requires two. By the time a student reaches second gup, he should know all the Pyung Ahn Forms. |
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The Pyung Ahn Forms have the most complicated floor pattern, due to the presence of moves done at 45° angles to the main bars. In the explanations written below, these angle moves are presented in green boxes within a box the color of the bar they are angling off of. For example, if I turn 45° to the left of the top end bar, the motions will be in a green box embedded within a dark blue box. Ready position, from which you begin the forms and in which you end the forms, should take place in the center of the dark blue (top) bar. Moving "up" the center bar is to move in the direction of the red arrows (pointing down in the picture), while moving "down" the center bar is moving in the direction of the magenta arrows (pointing up in the picture). They are labelled as such because usually the forms have the student move in the red direction ("up") before going in the magenta direction (back "down"). |
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Here are links to the 5 Pyung Ahn forms, described as closely as possible to the way they are practiced at WMTKDA. Please note that every instructor has a different way of executing movements and describing them, so these explanations are not meant to be a teaching source. These are simply meant to record our current methods and help students remember what they have been taught. Unless you are a member of the WMTKDA, please do not send me "corrections" based on what is taught in your class, unless you are certain that I made a typing error (such as saying "right" instead of "left"), as any other difference is most likely due to the preferences of individual instructors. Pyung Ahn Ee Dan Hyung Pyung Ahn Sam Dan Hyung Pyung Ahn Sah Dan Hyung Pyung Ahn Oh Dan Hyung |
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