A firsthand account of martial arts history
Inside The Pit
A Rare Firsthand Account of Training with a Grandmaster
During the early years of Kuk Sool Won in America, Grandmaster In Hyuk Suh (Kuk Sa Nim) established his first American school in San Francisco.
A short time after testing for his first-degree black belt under Kuk Sa Nim, Gene Gause received a telephone call from his friend, Master Harmon, conveying a remarkable offer: a personal invitation from Kuk Sa Nim to become a live-in student at the Grandmaster’s San Francisco school.
Gene’s answer was immediate—Yes!
He sold everything he owned and, accompanied by a friend, drove from South Carolina to San Francisco to begin an extraordinary chapter of his martial arts journey.
Tales from the Pit brings readers inside that remarkable period through the firsthand experiences of Master Gene Gause. His stories capture the challenges, discipline, humor, and extraordinary lessons of training directly under Kuk Sa Nim—lessons that continue to influence his life and teaching to this day.
This is more than martial arts history. It is a firsthand account from someone who lived it.
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