Shipjin 십진
Ten creature wey dey live long
About di form
Shipjin dey stand for the ten symbols of long life (sun, moon, mountain, water, stone, pine tree, the herb of forever young, tortoise, deer and crane) and for the decimal system: development and growth wey get order and no dey end. The techniques too dey carry the same picture from nature: the bull block, the block wey dey open mountain, the boulder push. The ✛-shape floor line dey comot from the center along each arm and dey return there four times.
Shipjin na number 5 out of di nine Yudanja form dem, di black-belt curriculum of World Taekwondo. E dey follow Pyongwon. E dey come before Jitae.
Level
Dan 5
Movement dem
31
Kihap
3
Step by step
Di 31 movement dem of Shipjin in Kukkiwon order, each one named in romanized Korean and Naijá, wit di stance wey dem take do am. One single count fit do pass one technique.