Training Overview

 

WHITE, Yellow, Orange Belts

• Discipline
• Stretching and conditioning
• Basics
  • Stances
  • General movement
  • Breathing
• Blocking, striking, kicking
• Finger locks & wrist locks
• No contact point sparring

 

 

 

Green, Blue, Purple Belts

• Discipline
• Improved stretching and conditioning
• Advanced blocks, strikes, kicks
• Beginning power in techniques
  • Focus
  • Accuracy
  • Balance
  • Hip rotation
• Basic break falls and rolls
• Basic sweeps and throws
• Arm bars, shoulder locks, chokes & headlocks
• Light contact point sparring

 

Red and Brown Belts

• Assist in teaching
• Improved stretching and conditioning
• Blocks, strikes, kicks well developed
• Good power in techniques
  • Focus
  • Balance
  • Accuracy
  • Hip rotation
  • Knee spring
• Rolls and break falls
• Intermediate joint manipulation techniques
• Combination techniques
• Self-defense against bear hugs, punches, kicks
• Basic pressure point techniques of Kyusho/Tuite-Jitsu
• Point sparring per AAU Taekwondo rules

 

Black Belts

• Assist in teaching
• Improved stretching and conditioning

• Advanced kicking skills
• Significant power in techniques
  • Focus
  • Balance
  • Accuracy
  • Hip rotation
  • Knee spring
• Rolls and break falls well developed
• Advanced joint manipulation techniques
• Combination techniques
• Self defense against knives, guns, grapplers (basic ground fighting)
• Advanced pressure point techniques of Kyusho/Tuite-Jitsu
• Point sparring per AAU Taekwondo rules