10th Kup - White Belt Grading Questions

General
1. What Martial Art are you learning?
2. Can you spell Taekwon-do?
3. What does Taekwon-do mean?
4. What grade are you?
5. What does the colour ‘white’ mean in Taekwon-do?
6. Who is your Instructor? (Know name and grade)
7. What are the ‘Five Tenets’ of Taekwon-do?

History
1. Who founded Taekwon-do? (Know name and grade)
2. Who introduced Taekwon-do to the UK? (Know name and grade)

Technical
1. Can you count to 10 in Korean?
2. Where is your ‘Home of fist’?
3. Using Korean terminology can you name and show all the stances you know?
4. When in walking stance which leg is bent and which leg is straight?
5. How much weight is on the front and back leg when stood in walking stance?
6. Can you show the difference between a left walking stance and a right walking stance?
7. Show the difference between obverse and reverse punch whilst in walking stance.
8. Can you point to your inner forearm?
9. Can you point to your outer forearm?

10th Kup - White Belt Grading Answers

General
1. Taekwon-do.
2. T a e k w o n d o (phonics ok for age 5 and under)
3. ‘Tae’ means foot, ‘kwon’ means hand and ‘do’ means art or way. Taekwon-do is the art of self-defence using hand and foot techniques.
4. 10th Kup White belt.
5. White signifies innocence, that of the beginning student who has no previous knowledge of Taekwon-Do.
6. Either:
         a. Mr Steven Millis 5th Dan (Monday and Wednesday Class)
         b. Miss Emma Reece 1st Dan (Thursday Class)
         c. Mrs Lorna Wright 1st Dan (Friday Class)
7. Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self control and Indomitable spirit. (C.I.P.S.I.)

History
1. General Choi Hong Hi, 9th Dan
2. Senior Grandmaster Rhee Ki Ha, 9th Dan

Technical
1. Hanna, Dool, Set, Net, Tasot, Yasot, Ilgop, Yodul, Ahop, Yol
2. Show by making a fist with your reaction hand position it so your side fist is on your hip/belt.
3. Charyot sogi (Attention stance), Narani sogi (Parallel stance), Gunnun sogi (Walking stance)
4. The front leg should be bent and the rear leg should be straight.
5. 50% front leg and 50% back leg
6. At the moment, just think which ever leg is most bent identifies the stance. For example if the right leg is most bent then you are in a right stance.
7. If you are punching with the same arm as your most bent leg, you are performing an obverse punch. If you are punching with the opposite arm as your most bent leg, you are performing a reverse punch.

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Outer

Inner