The Demonstration

    The virtual martial artist in this demonstration will be performing a Tae Kwon Do hyung.  Hyungs are one of the more important aspects of Tae Kwon Do training.  The definition of a hyung is a series of attacking and defensive movements which follow a logical, predetermined sequence.  The specific hyung demonstrated here is Chon-Ji Hyung.  Mastering this hyung is required for a white belt student to be promoted to the next rank.  The literal meaning of Chon-Ji is "heaven and earth", which in the orient symbolizes the creation of the world and the beginning of human history.
    This demonstration includes 21 movements.  Each movement has its own page.  Furthermore, each page has four buttons:  Previous, Reset, Go, and Next.  The Previous button will take you to the previous page and the Next button takes you to the next page.  The Go button is what triggers the virtual martial artist to perform the move.  After the move has been performed, the martial artist can be reset to his initial position (before the Go button was pressed) by pressing the Reset button.
    Now, we can proceed to our virtual demonstration of Chon-Ji Hyung.
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