Tang Soo Do Forms

[FAMA-USA]

I have noticed several web sites that give credit for the first three Tang Soo Do forms to GM Hwang Kee. However, these same forms were taught by Sensei Gichin Funakoshi. How is this possible? Can anyone explain this to me?

Thanks in advance,

Eric

[AmericanTangSoo]

Tang Soo Do Forms Origins

Remeber that most of Tang Soo Do's forms are actually Okinawan except for the Chil Sung patterns and a few others. In Grandmaster Hwang Kee's 1995 book "The History Of Moo Duk Kwan" he admits that he originally learned Tang Soo Do's original forms when he found Japanese books on Okinawan karate in the library of a train station in Seoul where he worked in 1939. Although he never mentioned what the books' titles were, many believe one of them was sensei Funakoshi's "Ryukyu Kempo Karate" which was published in 1922. So that's probably where the Giecho hyungs came from.