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Following is a list of requirements for each belt test.
Training manuals and DVD's are available for purchase.
These describe each technique in more detail.
(For a list of little dragons belt requirements, go to
the "Little Dragons" page)
Yellow (Gold) Belt Test:
- Stances: horse stance, natural stance, forward
stance, side fighting stance
- Hand techniques: reverse punch, lunge punch,
uraken (backfist), shuto (knife hand), inverted body punch,
vertical fist punch, full seiken (straight punch)
- Kicks: front kick (scoop and heel), side kick
(step behind), roundhouse (step in front and rear leg)
- Blocks: rising, downward, inside, reverse, outside
- Kata: taikyoku 1
- Demonstrate ability to tie belt.
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Orange Belt Test:
- Stances: all required for yellow belt, and cat
stance
- Hand techniques: all required for yellow belt
- Kicks: all required for yellow belt, and front kick
(ball of the foot), side kick (step up), offset front kick,
back kick
- Blocks: all required for yellow belt, and 10 way
block drill
- Kata: all required for yellow belt, and taikyoku
2, taikyoku 3, pinan 1
- Cat stance movements: #1, #2, #3, #4
- Kumite Waza: #1, #2, and two person
- Self defense movements: 5 required, and they
should use each of the five basic blocks
- Fighting movement: #1
- 50 pushups
- Kumite (fighting)
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Green Belt Test:
- Stances: all required for orange, and back stance
- Hand techniques: all required for orange
- Kicks: all required for orange
- Blocks: 20 way block drill
- Kata: all required for orange, and pinan 1 (with
and without sais), pinan 2 (with and without sais), pinan 3
- Cat stance movements: all required for orange
- Kumite Waza: all required for orange, and #3
- Self defense movements: 10 required
- Fighting movement: all required for orange, and #2
- 100 pushups
- Kumite (fighting) with 2 opponents
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Purple Belt Test:
- Everything on green belt test, and
- Block counter drill #1
- Fighting movement #3
- Block drill: 26 way
- Kata: no additional, but all katas should be more
refined than at green belt level
- Self defense: 11 required
- Kumite: one on one above green belt level
- Cat stance movements #5
- 2 man bo waza
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Blue Belt Test:
- Everything on purple belt test, and
- Double block counter drill (#2)
- Fighting movement #4
- Block drill: 28 way
- Kata: no additional, but all katas should be more
refined than at purple belt level
- Self defense: 12 required
- Bo sho
- Kumite: one on one above purple belt
- Cat stance movements #6
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Red Belt Test:
- Everything on blue belt test, and
- Double block counter drill with kicks (#3)
- Fighting movement #5
- Block drill: 32 way
- Kata: all through pinan 4
- Focus glove drill
- Self defense: 13 required
- Kumite: one on one above blue belt
- Cat stance movements #7, #8
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Brown Belt Test:
- Everything on red belt test, and
- Kicks: front reverse wheel kick, spinning back
wheel kick, hook kick, spinning back hook kick
- Cat stance movements #1 - 10
- Kumite waza: #1 - 4 and 2 person
- Fighting movements #1 - 6
- Continuous kiai
- Self defense: 15 required
- Katas: Taikyoku 1 - 3, pinan 1 - 5, pinan 1 - 3 with sai
- Block drill: 36 way
- Kumite: with 3 opponents
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Black Belt Test:
- Everything on brown belt test, including history and
terms
- Cat stance movements #1 - 10 forward and backward
- Kumite waza: #1 - 5 and 2 person
- Fighting movements #1 - 7
- Demonstrate 1, 2, 3, 4 block punch drill
- Self defense: 20 required - 5 hand to hand, 5
against grabs and chokes, 5 against kicks, 5 against weapons
- Katas: all brown belt, and sakure sho (with and without
sais), nunchucks kata
- Block drill: 40 way
- Flow drill
- Kumite: with 4 opponents
- You must be observed teaching class for your instructor
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