Blue symbolizes the sky, representing ambition, youthful energy and a new growth that stretches toward.
This article is for a current senior green belt student who is studying to obtain a blue belt.
Obtaining A 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 and L-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 and Knife Hand Strike
| POOMSE |
- Gahm-sah-hyung, combination hands technique and “taekwondo” poomse;
- WTF Poomse – Taeguk Il-Jung, Taeguk Ee-Jung and Taeguk Sahm-Jung
| KICKS |
- Dynamic Stretch Kicks – Front Raising Kick, Outside Round Kick, Inside Round Kick, Side Raising Kick, Side Round Kick and Back Raising Kick
- Snap Kicks – Front Snap Kick, Axe Kick, Round House Kick, Side Kick and Back kick
- Hopping Kicks – Front, Round House, Side and Axe
- 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
| SPARRING FOOT WORK |
- Footworks # 1 – 6
- Two Kick Exchange Sparring (2 minutes)
- Attend Five Sparring Classes
| THEORY |
- Counting 1-10 in Korean (click here to listen)
- Explicit meaning of “Tae” “Kwon” “Do” (click here for a definition)
- School Rule # 1-5 (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)
