Vail Taekwon-Do will honor most ranks from other schools.  Even if it is a different style of martial arts.

The following are required for us to validate your existing rank:

• Name of previous school, website/email/phone number of school, style of martial art
• Last decided rank obtained at above school
• Copy of certificate of rank of highest rank obtained
• Time frame of when you trained at above school

We do the following with this information:

• We will try to validate your rank by contacting the school (if possible).  If contacting previous school is not an option we will rely on the certificate of rank.
• Review student performing some basic techniques to aid in rank placement in our system
• Determine the equivalent rank in our system
• Award new student with equivalent rank in JTF Taekwon-Do

To test for the next rank the transfer student will have to complete the following:

• Learn all JTF patterns up to and including patterns for current rank
• Learn all basics, one steps, testing questions, etc.  up to and including current rank as listed in Promotional Testing page
• Meet all other testing requirement: homework, teacher letter, etc.