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Go Gamdo (고감도, Go Gamdo; "Gamdo Go") is a skilled practitioner of Tai Chi.[1] He was invited to the God Of High School tournament. Even though he isn't offically a student of Bongchim Nah, after helping Bongchim here and there, he finally mastered the art of acupunture and became the next 'Divine Doctor', along with Lee Hyangdan, 17 years after Ragnarok.
Appearance
Gamdo wears a traditional Tai Chi uniform with short hair, and slightly tan skin.[1]
Personality
Go Gamdo is a strong fighter but is very respectful to others. He is very thankful to Jin Mori after he saved him from Gang Man-Suk twice. He learnt Tai Chi because he wanted to become strong but fight in an elegant way.
History
When Gamdo was young, Gamdo always looked up to people with power and wanted to be strong, but he didn't like cage fighting and other forms of fighting due to their lack of beauty. One Day, Gam-Do saw an old man who defeated a gang of thugs with ease and elagance. Soon after Gam-Do begged the old man to train him; to which the old man accepted. Later in Gam-do's life, the orphanage the old man worked at caught fire, leading the old man to work hard in order to pay for the damage. The old man eventually died from overworking himself.
Gam-Do entered the God Of High School Tournament to find out who started the fire and bring them to justice.
Plot
A Round With God
Gamdo entered the God Of High School Tournament to improve his skills. Gamdo later met Gang Manseok with whom he got in an altercation with, but was saved by Jin Mori.[1] Gamdo later met up with Mori and thanked him for saving him. He learned that he shouldn't underestimate his opponent by level. Mori told him he saved him because he simply disliked Manseok.[2]
Gamdo then began his match with Manseok. As soon as it started, Gamdo rushed in and fought Manseok with a multitude of Tai Chi attacks that sent him flying out of the ring.[2]
Manseok later got up from the fall and walked back to the ring, but Gamdo give him a strong kick which Manseok blocked, while breaking one of his arm free from his jacket. Manseok rushed in and grabed Gamdo's hair and tossed him to the floor to pierce his eye.[2]
Gamdo, now injured and being tossed around, remembered his master's telling that, 'Anger could give great power but relying on it solely will destroy them. To balance this power, one must have the tolerance inside to endure it too.' Manseok starts attacking Gamdo again, but this time Gamdo tries to use Tai-Chi Extreme Arts: Ying-Yang Five Elements Strike. To Gamdo's surprise, this attack doesn't affect him at all. Manseok mentions that he felt the shockwave Gamdo sent out, but he bounced it back to Gamdo again with Northern Style: Wave Reflection.[3]
Manseok then grabs hold of Gamdo and keeps hitting him until he begs him to stop, which the latter refuses to do. Gamdo remembers his master and how amazed he was with a simple old man defeating mobs with ease. He remembers his master's dire situation and tries to punch Manseok, but fails to put any strength behind it. Enraged, Manseok tears out his other hand from the straightjacket. After twisting Gamdo's arm behind his back and breaking it, Manseok gets attacked by Jin Mori who had entered the ring between the match, thus forfeiting his own tournament.[4] Realizing that he would have lost the fight, Gamdo left the tournament.[5]
Adventures
He later reappeared as a candidate for the mission to the sage realm while shown with his master on his back going to Lee Hyang-Dan and Na Bong-Chin's house to seek someone to help his sick master.
World Tournament
RE: A Round With God
Abilities
Gam-Do is a skilled practitioner of Tai Chi. He has shown to be quite agile and possess great speed. Tai Chi uses the energy around the user to effectively enhance the user attacks and uses counter or the opponents own strength to also enhance their own.
Superhuman Strength: although not much is seen, Go Gam-Do does possess a great strength, as his body slam throw Gang Man-Suk from the ring into audience area.[2]
Superhuman Speed: Go Gam-Do's speed can be seen in his techniques that require high speed.[3]
Martial Arts
Tai Chi
- Rabbit's Step: Rabbit's Step is a foot technique that allows the user to close gaps between him and his opponent in one single step. It is often used with Dragon Staff Strike.[2]
- Dragon Staff Strike: Dragon Staff Strike is a technique where a punch is delivered to the opponents stomach. He uses the speed from Rabbit's Step to increase its power.[2]
- Dragon's Horn Heavy Weight: By slamming the user's foot on the ground a small shockwave is created that sends a wave of energy to the opponent knocking them off balance.[2]
- Ten Thousand Horse Strikes: This a rapid fire technique from Tai Chi. The user first creates a circle with their hand and then bumps their fist together. After this a barrage of swift punches is delivered to the opponent.[2]
- Steel Demon's Mountain: Steel Demon's Mountain is similar to a body slam. It uses centripetal force to send an opponent lying by twisting the user's body around and hitting them with their body.[2]
- Front Kick: A front kick that is delivered after running and skidding on the ground which causes a gust of wind to happen after the kick is performed.[2]
- Axe Kick: An axe kick is performed by flipping over and delivering a powerful downward kick to the opponents shoulders. This technique essentially uses gravity to make the user's kick and speed more powerful.[2]
- Thousand Pound Pendulum#Go Gamdo's Style: A technique which purpose is to disrupting the opponent's center of gravity. It is done through breathing and pulling the opponent with significant force.
- Taichi Extreme Arts: Ying-Yang Five Elements Strike: A technique that delivers a powerful shockwave to their opponent. It true effects were not seen as it was cancelled by the Northern Style: Wave Reflection technique of Gang Manseok.[3]
References
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