Description
Um Ging refers to something that is hard to see. This is the type of energy to be trained at this grade. Other descriptions are misty energy. It is like being in a darkened room where you can’t quite make out the furniture but you know it is there, especially when you kick your toe on it. This is the same for the energy of this grade. You can’t quite make out the energy until it smashes into you. You are hiding your energy.
This grade certainly does teach you “to be soft until it’s necessary to be hard, so that the opponent isn’t aware of you coming”. The purpose of this is that you give them the impression you are not a threat, or that they have you under control. This is due to the “softness” of the kieul/bridge. Once they contact the kieul they think you are finished but the softness allows you to chum and release the ging. This requires many repetitions and much mental connection to the technique.
