Grandmaster Nam Tae-Hi’s Spearhand Story In A Killing Art (with his son, Chris Nam, interpreting)

Grandmaster Nam Tae-Hi came as close to being superhuman as was possible. A lot has been written about his martial arts power, fighting abilities and leadership in Taekwon-Do and Taekwondo -- in all styles. The last time that I interviewed him (July 2011 in Dallas, USA), I asked about a controversial technique, the “straight-fingertip strike“ or “spearhand,“ which was supposed to puncture a person’s skin and which he’d used during a battle in the Korean War (in 1951). I’d written about the horrific scene an