Jitae

Jitae means a man with both feet on the ground to kick, walk, and jump, which represents the struggle of human life. Jitae Poomsae weaves various aspects that appear in the struggle for survival into various moves. Its Poomsae line “ㅗ” is similar to a person standing on the ground and rising toward the sky to signify people who are born, grow, and die on the land.

In the Poomsae line “ㅗ,” the horizontal line at the bottom represents the earth, and the short vertical line represented by a dot signifies the sky. The unison of the mind and body ensures that the practitioner’s body unconsciously responds to the opponent’s attack. This stage is no longer about an artificial way of judging and performing attack and defense techniques but about practicing movements in a state of self-effacement.