WHITE BELT

DACHI –

ZAZEN	Meditation
MUSUBI	Salutation or relaxed stance
YOI	Ready or preparation stance
FUDO	Natural or earth stance

TSUKI –

SEIKEN TSUKI	Forward two knuckle punch
GYAKU TSUKI	Reverse two knuckle punch

To be practiced in cross formation and combined with blocking

UCHI –

URAKEN SHOWMEN	Palm upwards strike to front
URAKEN YOKO SHOWMEN	Palm upwards strike to side
URAKEN MAWASHI SHOWMEN	Palm upwards striking in a circular direction

To be practiced in cross formation

UKEREN UKE -

AGE UKE	Upper rising block
SOTO UKE	Middle area outside block
UCHI UDE UKE	Middle area inside block
GEDAN BARRI	Lower area block
JU JI UKE	Cross block

To be practiced with another student to combined blocking and countering in a proper full force manner

UKEMI –

Forward front fall
Left and right side break falls
Forward rolling break falls
Back break fall

KATA

Formal Ju-ni Kata 1-3 and five element form Creative fundamental forms 1-2 Renroku Releases – fundamental releases – Natural grip and Unnatural grip

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Student doing a upper rising block (Age Uke), reverse punch (Gyaku Tsuki) and a front kick (Mae Geri) as part of his white belt grading.

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