3RD KUP Grade SHEET – BLUE BELT – Red Tag

To pass you grading you will have to demonstrate:

• Moves and patterns from your previous gradings
• Toi Gye
• Hand and Kicking Power against a Bag/Board
• Combinations up and down the floor.
• Demonstrate and name as many Punching/Striking techniques as possible
• Free Sparring
• One Step Sparring

Theory

1. How many moves in Toi Gye ?

• 37

2. Can you tell me anything about Toi Gye?

• Toi-Gye is the pen-name of the noted scholar Yi Hwang (16th Century) an authority on neo-Confucianism. The 37 movements of the pattern refer to his birthplace on the 37o latitude, the diagram represents scholar.

3. What does red belt signify?

• Warns the Opponent to stay away.

4. Demonstrate how many new moves they know?

Additional Theory

Red Belt

• signifies: DANGER, CAUTIONING THE STUDENT TO EXERCISE CONTROL AND WARNING THE OPPONENT TO STAY AWAY.

Terminology

• Dwijibun sonkut tulgi – Upset fingertip thrust
• San makgi – ‘W’ Shaped block
• Najunde doo palmok miro makgi – Low double forearm pushing block
• Najunde sonkal daebi makgi – Low knifehand guarding block
• Doo palmok Najunde mira makgi – Double forearm low section pushing block
• Kyocha so kyocha joomuk noollo makgi – X stance X fist pressing block
• Sonkal Najunde Daebi makgi – Knifehand low guarding block