ABOUT CHILSONG TRAINING
Chilsong Training was founded by Bob Banham
in 1980 when Norwich City Council asked him
to develop a course for them to offer
through their Leisure and Community
programme.
This has
led over the last 25 years, to him being
responsible for the ‘Management of
Aggression and Violence’ training for staff
at several local and national authorities,
schools, businesses and other institutions.
Bob Banham
has been involved in martial arts for
over forty years. Starting with
judo at the age of 13, he has practiced
many styles of Korean and Japanese arts
and now holds a 5th dan black belt in
Hanmudo and 4th
dan in Taekwondo.
Hanmudo is a system of Korean martial
arts founded by Dr. He-Young Kimm (9th
dan) and comprises techniques from judo,
taekwondo, hapkido and kuk sool (in all
of which, Dr. Kimm holds master grades)
as well as traditional weapons, internal
‘ki’ training, philosophy and history.
‘Hanmudo’ translates literally as
‘Korean Martial Arts’ but is equally
well translated as ‘Korean Intellectual
Martial Arts’.
Bob Banham is the UK director for the
World Hanmudo Association and is one of
Dr. Kimm’s direct students. He has
travelled in the Far East, Australia and
America to study martial arts and
regularly teaches at seminars in this
country as well as in America and
Europe. Dr. Kimm teaches seminars
annually at Chilsong Martial Arts, at
which Bob is headmaster.
Chilsong is the longest established
traditional Korean martial arts school
in the Norwich area. It was founded in
1972 and has links to some of the
highest ranking Korean Grandmasters in
the world.
Bob was also one of the first people in
the country to become an area course
tutor for The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, the
national charity for personal safety in
1993.
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