Breaking requirements for promotion
to 1st Geup High Red Belt:
For
promotion to 1st
Geup High Red Belt, testing candidates are required to perform several
breaks consisting of a combination of both hand and foot, attacks and blocks, while using both the right and left sides. The
candidate will be required to perform both power breaks and technique breaks. These breaks will be selected from those suggested to the test board by the testing candidate from the list below, and/or
will be breaks specified by the test board.
The student may choose any four (4) techniques from the
list below as suggestions for their breaks at testing. These choices must include one (1) power foot break,
one (1) power hand break, one (1) technique foot break, and one (1) technique hand break. The test board has the prerogative to choose alternative breaks for the testing candidate from among any of
the breaking requirements for 2nd Geup Low Red Belt and below. Therefore, it is possible that the testing
candidate may perform more than four (4) breaks – which may also include replacement breaks other than those suggested to the test board.
The testing candidate must choose techniques
from those that they are most familiar with. Additionally, they should completely understand the correct
execution of those techniques. Therefore, the techniques to be suggested to the test board will consist
of the punches, blocks, thrusts, strikes and kicks learned for their promotion to 2nd Geup Low Red Belt. These techniques will
be executed from the specific stances in patterns or kicking instruction from which they were learned. Depending
on the type of technique and the form of its execution, a particular break can be considered a Power break
or a Technique break (for options for a particular technique, please discuss with your instructor).
For promotion to 1st Geup High Red Belt, the possible choices for techniques to be suggested to the test board are:
Reverse Crescent
Kick – Power/Technique
Skip
Twisting Kick – Power/Technique
Ground
Inward Vertical Kick – Technique
Ground
Outward Vertical Kick – Technique
Flying
Hook Kick (offensive) – Technique
Flying
360o Back Piercing Kick – Power/Technique
Flying Twisting Kick – Power/Technique
Mid-Air Lead Leg Hook Kick – Technique
Close Stance high Side Back Strike with the Backfist – Power/Technique
Close
Stance Thrust with the Twin Side Elbow – Technique
Walking Stance low Front Thrust with the Upset Fingertip (reverse) – Technique
Walking Stance
high Front Thrust with the Flat Fingertip (obverse) – Technique
Sitting Stance W-Shape Block with the Outer Forearm (inward) – Power
L-Stance high Side
Back Strike with the Backfist (obverse) – Technique
L-Stance low Block with the Outer Forearm (reverse - outward) – Power
L-Stance low Knifehand Guarding Block
– Power
Additional, or alternative
breaks requested BY the test board may include ANY breaking requirement listed for 3rd Geup High Blue Belt or 2nd Geup Low Red Belt – the testing candidate
may choose to use either their right or left side for these breaks. Additional, or alternative breaks may
also include breaking with ANY technique listed as a requirement for promotion to 4th Geup
Low Blue Belt and below – the test board will decide whether the student breaks with their right or left side for these breaks.
It is also expected that skill will increase as the testing candidate
matures in size and/or rank. Therefore, it is assumed that techniques chosen by the test board from previous
rank breaking requirements would most likely involve an increase in the number of boards.
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