Belt Study Guide: Obtaining a Junior Blue Belt
Blue symbolizes the sky, representing ambition, youthful energy and a new growth that stretches toward.Red stripe symbolizes danger, as the student must learn to control his/her newfound power.This article is for a current blue belt student who is studying to obtain a junior blue belt.
Obtaining A Jr. Blue Belt
Topics you are required to demonstrate are:
BASICS
Formation Stances - ChahRyut (attention), Gyung-Nyet (bow), JoonBee (ready)
Stances - Horse Stance, Front High Stance, Front Long Stance, Fighting Stance, L-stance and Back Stance
Blocks - Low, High, Inner, Single Forearm Block, Outside Forearm Block and Single Knife Hand Block, Double Knife Hand Block
Attacks - Middle Punch, High Punch, Hammer Punch, Knife Hand, Neck Chop, Spear Hand, Elbow Strike, Knife Hand Strike and Double Hand Supported Spear Hand, Back Fist.
Variation - Swallow Neck Chop
POOMSE
gahm-sah-hyung, combination hands technique and "taekwondo" poomse;
WTF Poomse - Taeguk Il-Jung, Taeguk Ee-Jung, Taeguk Sahm-Jung and Taeguk Sah-Jung
KICKS
Dynamic Stretch Kicks - Front Raising Kick, Outside Round Kick, Inside Round Kick, Side Raising Kick, Side Round Kick, Back Raising Kick and Side Cut Kick
Snap Kicks - Front Snap Kick, Axe Kick, Round House Kick, Side Kick, Back kick and Side Hook Kick
Hopping Kicks - Front, Round House, Side and Axe
Fast Kicks - Front, Round
Jump Kicks - Front
Flying Kicks - Flying Side Kick
Switch Kicks - Front Snap Kick, Axe Kick, Round House Kick, Side Kick
Combination Kicks - (a) Hopping Front Kick and Round House Kick; (b) Hopping Round House Kick and Axe Kick and (c) Hopping Side Kick, Back Kick, Hopping Axe Kick, High Round House Kick and Front Kick Series
SPARRING FOOT WORK
Footworks # 1 - 6 and 7
Two Kick Exchange Sparring (2 minutes)
Fast Single Kick Exchange Sparring (two, 2 minute Rounds - total of 4 minutes)
Attend Sparring Classes
THEORY
Counting 1-10 in Korean (click here to listen)
Explicit meaning of "Tae" "Kwon" "Do" (click here for a definition)
School Rules # 1-5 and #6-10 (click here for the complete list)
Five Tenets of Taekwondo (Click here to read)
Detailed definition of "What is Taekwondo" (click here for to read)
Mental Education # 1-10 (click here to read)
Student Creed (click here to read)
7 Home Rules for Children (click here to read)