17 Facts About Subak

Subak is an ancient martial art that originated in Korea and uses bare hand techniques.

Common misunderstanding is that Subak only involves slaps with the palm and features 45-degree side attacks to the cheeks, face, neck, or body; there are several reasons why:.

Subak Dance is a valuable historical record that recorded Subak moves as a dance including slapping dance partner's chest.

Subak has frontal slaps like Subyuk which has the nickname Sonbbyukchigi ; Subak has punches unlike Subyuk although corroborated by Subyuk's another nickname Ken.

Since then, Subak has contributed to the evolution of Korean martial arts, which has included the yusul.

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At this point, Subak was not only considered martial art but was practiced as an organized sport that was staged as a form of spectator entertainment.

Subak took a heavy blow during the Joseon period, which was founded on the ideology of Confucianism, stressing literary art over martial art.

Subak is suspected to be the same art as Taekkyeon with a different name.

Traditional Subak had become a dance; it has passed down in Manchuria.

Subak Dance has moves such as slapping his body particularly the forehead, cheeks, chest, shoulders, thighs, feet, and slapping the dance partner's body in the same manner.

Subak Dance is passed down by Manchuria Koreans and North Korea today.

Kokuryeo had a limited number of sports; those reputable archaeological wall drawings can only be matched with few sports including Subak; Subak has a limited number of motions which can be matched with the pictures by the process of elimination.

Subak's motions are proven with ancient pictures, medieval writings, Subak Dance, Taekkyeon, etc.

Subak had swing slaps hitting front, straight slaps, punches already at the ancient time; Taekkyeon had all those in the medieval times already.

Subak is the Korean pronunciation, whilst Shoubo is the Chinese pronunciation of the same characters.

However, there are explicit old authentic historical records that Subak itself had punches in the game, not as an extension game of Subak.

Sibak hits with any body part; Subak uses frontal slap, side slap, punches, knife hand strikes, and grab moving front and back, the hand and fingers bending.