Fig Tree Pocket Dojo - Term 2 Belt Test Sign-up:
2024 Term 2 Belt Test: Sat 15th June
Belt Test registration Term 2, 2024
Please complete the registration by paying via the below link. Given the FTP club size, your dojo instructor will receive information that lets them distinguish who/how many in your family is testing.
Within 24 hours you will see the name you have registered in the below table for confirmation.
Students signed up Test term 4List of students signed up for the term's test:
These younger kids can receive 3 types of awards on a belt test day.
- term participation & completion certificate (no fee charged to participate in the "test')
- a rank advancement (certificate; test fees of A$25)
- a Kyu level advancement (either a new black strip or belt color is issued; test fees of A$25)
Test & Class Schedule for Test Day
Little Tigers Test: 10:30 to 11am, all other ranks are doing a longer split test starting at 9.30am to 10.30am with a break between 10.30am and 11 followed by another 30mins from 11am to 11.30. The class/test will be at the FTP State School Hall.
Theory Tests occur for Adults & kids over 12 years for:
white testing for yellow
orange testing for green
Any Dan rank
Belts & Ranks:
At the end of each school term we have a belt test. The student may end up with any of the following outcomes:
no rank change if not quite ready
a change in level
for kids, the addition of a stripe (Kyu level changes)
belt colour change
The traditional martial arts as passed to us from Japan is aimed at life learning lessons. Therefore belt testing is always a competency & effort based test, with age & size factored in (i.e. people are not simply promoted for participating).
Videos on Basic Technique for White to Orange belts:
- filmed mid-1990s with an adult focused teaching style
4. Introduction to Reverse Punch...
5. Introduction to Lower Block...
6. Introduction to kick (knee/ankle lift variant 1)...
9. Punching Harder & Faster...
Note: These videos cover an initial understanding of technique in one variant (even in our style of shito-ryu, we teach different approaches to a technique depending on your rank)
