Belt Requirements
- White Belt:
- Introductory level
- Yellow Stripe: (10)
- Horse stance, forebalance, back balance, Basic punching, downward block, rising block, front kick
- Minimum 4 weeks = 8 classes as white belt
- Yellow Belt: (9)
- Chon-ji, side block, lunge punch, round-house kick, side kick
- Minimum 11 weeks = 20 classes as yellow stripe
- Orange Belt: (8)
- Tangun, knife-hand block, spear finger, sparring
- Minimum 11 weeks = 20 classes as yellow belt
- 2nd Orange
- Forearm block, low-high kick, reverse advance, reverse knife hand, sparring
- Minimum 11 weeks = 20 classes as orange belt
- Green Belt: (7)
- Tosan, jump front kick, sparring
- Minimum 12 weeks = 22 classes as 2nd orange
- 2nd Green:
- Spinning back kick, hand escapes, sparring
- Minimum 12 weeks = 22 classes as green belt
- Blue Belt: (6)
- Won-hyo, heel kick, sparring
- Minimum 22 weeks = 40 classes as 2nd green
- 2nd Blue Belt
- Yul-kok, spinning heel, 2nd set self defense (cloth grabs)
- Minimum 22 weeks = 40 classes as blue belt
- 4th Brown Belt: (4)
- Chung-gwen, continuous sparring
- Minimum 24 weeks = 42 classes as 2nd blue
- 3rd Brown: (3)
- Toi-gye, multiple sparring (2)
- Minimum 24 weeks = 42 classes as 4th degree brown
- 2nd Brown: (2)
- Hwa-rang, multiple sparring (3)
- Minimum 24 weeks = 45 classes as 3rd degree brown
- 1st Brown: (1)
- Chung-mu, 3rd set self defense, multiple sparring (3)
- Minimum 24 weeks = 45 classes as 2nd degree brown
- Black Belt Candidate:
- Ba Sai
- Minimum 24 weeks = 50 classes as 1st degree brown
- 1st Dan Black Belt:
- Kwan Gye, full contact, multiple sparring (4)
- Minimum 26 to 52 weeks = 60 classes as black belt candidate
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