Blue Belt – 4th Grade

Basics and Stances (Brown Stripe)

• Rear foot stance
• Low stance
• Side step switch 
• Middle side block with reverse knife-hand
• Upward block
• Upward elbow strike
• High twin vertical punch
• Upset punch with a twin fist  
• Rising block with an X-fist
• Pressing block
• Turning punch
• U-shape block
• Flying side piercing kick
• Checking kick
• Skipping kicks

Pattern Requirements (Purple Stripe)

• Yul-gok (38 movements)
• Choong-gun (32 movements)

Sparring (Orange Stripe)

• One steps
• 1 on 1 (no contact)

Knowledge & Power (White Stripe)

• 15 Jumping jacks, pushups and situps, 30 air squats
• Definition of Choong-gun
  • Ahn Chung-Gun, who assassinated the first Japanese Governor-General of Korea
• Weight distribution of Walking and Sitting Stance
  • Walking: 60 front, 40 back
  • Sitting: 50/50

Breaking (Black Stripe)

• Front kick (rebreakable board)

Blue Belt – 3rd Grade

Basics and Stances (Brown Stripe)

• Fients and draw steps
• Low thrust with upset fingertip
• Low pressing block with an X-fist
• W-shape block with the outer forearm
• Low pushing block with double forearm
• High thrust with flat fingertip
• Low guarding block with knife-hand
• Knee strike
• Front leg hooking kick
• Reverse hooking kick
• Jump back side kick
• Vertical kick (Inward and Outward)
• Switch kicks

Pattern Requirements (Purple Stripe)

• Choong-gun (32 movements)
• Toi-gye (37 movements)

Sparring (Orange Stripe)

• One steps
• Self Defense
• 1 on 1 (no contact)

Knowledge & Power (White Stripe)

• 15 Jumping jacks, pushups and situps, 40 air squats
• Definition of Toi-gye
  • Noted authority on Neo-Confucianism
• Explain why student rank start at 10
• Weight distribution of fixed and rear foot stance
  • Fixed: 50/50
  • Rear: 90/10

Breaking (Black Stripe)

• Front elbow strike (rebreakable board)