Stripe requirements

This page lists all the required components for each student to advance from white to yellow belt. To be ready for promotion, the student must have acquired each of the stripes relating to their next belt. All requirements will be taught as part of the curriculum, but for information about unfamiliar techniques that are required for a stripe, please ask an instructor.

Yellow Stripe - 9th gup Yellow Belt - 8th gup
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Yellow belt - 8th gup
Stances & Stepping - blue stripe
  • Attention - charyeot
  • Ready - joonbi
  • Horse-riding - jucheom seogi
  • Fighting - gyorugi seogi
  • Walking - ap seogi
  • Front stance - ap kubi
  • All previous stances
  • Back stance - dwit kubi
  • Open sparring stance
  • Closed sparring stance
  • Switch
  • Shift forward
  • Shift backward
  • Stomp fake
  • All previous stepping
  • Return - baro
  • Side shift
  • Step fake
  • Stepping doubles
  • 4-direction (stepping only)
Punches & Strikes - orange stripe
  • Middle punch in horse-riding stance
  • High punch in horse-riding stance
  • Middle punch in walking stance
  • Middle punch in front stance
  • High punch in front stance
  • Side backfist to temple
  • All previous punches & strikes
  • Jab in fighting stance
  • Reverse punch in fighting stance
  • Outside knife-hand neck strike
  • Inside knife-hand neck strike
Blocks, 1-Steps & Releases - green stripe
  • Low / Down Block - Arae Makki
  • Middle Block (out to in) - Momtong An Makki
  • Middle Block (in to out) - Momtong Bakkat Makki
  • High Block - Olgul Makki
  • All previous blocks, in front stance
  • Middle Block, reversed - Momtong Makki
  • Single knife-hand block, in back stance - Hansonnal momtong bakkat makki
  • One-step # 1
  • Release # 1
  • One-step # 1, 2
  • Release # 1, 2
Kicks & Combinations - yellow stripe
  • Front snap kick - Ap chagi
  • Front leg snap kick
  • Roundhouse - Dollyo Chagi
  • Front leg roundhouse - Puchagi
  • Double roundhouse - Naerae chagi
  • Front leg double - Edan
  • Thrusting front kick - Ap chagi
  • Side kick - Yop chagi
  • Back kick - Dwit chagi
  • Push kick
  • Cut kick
  • Roundhouse / Roundhouse
  • Roundhouse / Double
  • Puchagi / Double
  • Roundhouse / Edan
  • Puchagi / Edan
  • Roundhouse / Back kick
Poomsae (Patterns) - red stripe
  • The first six movements of Taegeuk 1 (Il jang)
  • Taegeuk 1 (Il jang)
Terminology - white stripe

  • Char-yeot
  • Kyung-ree
  • Joon-bi
  • Ki-hap
  • Ha-na
  • Dul
  • Set
  • Net
  • Attention
  • Bow
  • Ready
  • Yell
  • One
  • Two
  • Three
  • Four
 All previous terminology
  • Da-seot
  • Yeo-seot
  • Il-gop
  • Yeo-deol
  • A-hop
  • Yeol
  • Ba-ro
  • Shi-yo
  • Five
  • Six
  • Seven
  • Eight
  • Nine
  • Ten
  • Return
  • At ease
Fitness - brown stripe Students will be expected to perform 10 good push-ups and 20 good sit-ups. There are many types of push-ups and sit-ups to choose from, so students should try a variety. They will be expected to hold a low 'sitting' stance for one minute and balance on each leg in both a chambered snap kick position and 'flamingo' position for 10 seconds each.
They will be expected to demonstrate their flexibility in a seated straddle position, pike position, and butterfly position, and make and attempt to perform splits. Expectations increase once they achieve their yellow belt.