Osamu Inoue: heard of him?

[Daniel Sullivan]

While I was at FYE looking in the MA section, I picked up the Chinese Connection, and right behind it in the wrong place was Osamu Inoue's Taekwondo Intermediate Training. It was only ten dollars, and as an instructor, I'm always looking at material to pick out ideas.

I haven't had a chance to watch it all the way through yet, but what I've seen looks okay so far. Question: what org, if any is he with? Looks like he might actually be TSD, as the forms it mentions are "Pyon-An II, Pyon-An IV, and Kum-Mu IV.

Anyone know about him? Any info is appreciated.

Daniel

 

[dancingalone]

I know very little myself. The little bit of gossip I read about his dvds on the net was that Inoue did the project as perhaps an effort to emigrate or stay in the States. He was only around a second dan when he filmed the series, and he never thought they would be sold commercially as they ended up being. I believe Mr. Inoue is somewhat rueful about the entire experience.