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Testing Requirements:
Jukyu (Yellow Belt)
Kukyu (Blue Belt)
Hachikyu (Second Blue Belt)
Shichikyu (Green Belt)
Rokyu (Second Green Belt)
Gokyu (Purple Belt)
Yonkyu (Second Purple Belt)
Sankyu (Brown Belt)
Nikyu (Second Brown Belt)
Ikkyu (Third Brown Belt)
Shodan (First Black Belt)
Nidan (Second Black Belt)
Sandan (Third Black Belt)
Yondan (Fourth Black Belt)
Godan (Fifth Black Belt)
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First Black Belt (Shodan) Testing Requirements
- Minimum Training Time
- 1 year
- Stances
- same as last test
- Blocks
- same as last test
- Punches and Strikes
- same as last test
- Kicks
- same as last test
- Kata
- Tekki Nidan
- Kanku Sho
- optional kata (shitei no kata) selected from Chinte, Bassai Sho, or Jitte
- specialty kata (tokui no kata) selected from any kata above Heian
- No pre-choreographed bunkai. Instead, the examiners will select a sequence of techniques
from a kata of their choice for the student to do an interpretation of on the spot. Any kata
above Tekki Shodan may be selected.
- Kihon Combinations
- same as last test
- Self-Defense
- same as last test
- Sparring
- same as last test
- two on one free style sparring
- Other Requirements
- expect a couple surprises
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