GOLD BELT TESTING REQUIREMENTS
FIVE BASIC BLOCKS LEFT SIDE
- Stepping out with left leg in a back stance
- Shifting into forward stance with punch and loud kihap
- Low block
- High block
- Inside block
- Outside block
- Knife-hand block
FOUR WALKING HAND MOVEMENTS
- All in a low forward stance
- Low block
- Middle punch
- High block
- High punch
STANDING KICKS
- Front kick
- Round house kick
- Lead-leg front kick
- Lead-leg round house kick
- Jump front kick
WALKING KICKS
- Stepping front kick
- Stepping round house kick
- Slide-up front kick
- Slide-up round house kick
- Jump front kick
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS
- What is the code of honor in karate? (Never attack first.)
- How to perform a correct break fall with a loud kihap.
- Why do we kihap? (To generate power and prevent the wind from being knocked out of you)
- When do we kihap? (On the first and last techniques of a sequence and when switching or turning)
- What does choon bee mean? (Ready)