Orange Belt
- Techniques
Legs
Thrust Kick
Thai Kick
Skipping/Stepping Front, Roundhouse, Hook, and Side Kicks
Spinning Back Kick
Crescent Kicks (Inside and Outside)
Hands
Stepping Jab/Speed Jab
Wide (Thai Style) Hook
Uppercut
Palm Strike
Back Fist
Blocks
Knife Hand Block
Double Forearm Block
Open Hand Middle Block
Inside/Outside Block (Sparring Block)
Concepts
Shield Block to Thrust Kick or to Jab, Cross (Turn a defensive Block into an Offensive Technique)
Movement within Fighting Stance (Forward, Backward, Sideways, Circling)
Clinching fundamentals
The Clinch (aka, Plum, Double Collar Tie)
Movement in the Clinch (Forward, Backward, Side/Spin)
3 Clinch Escapes (Chin Lead, Shoulder Shift, Guard Break)
Combinations
Jab, Cross, Thai Kick
Front Thrust Kick, Jab, Cross, Thai Kick Roundhouse, Back Kick
Roundhouse, Hook, and Side Kick( All with one leg without touching the ground)
Front Thrust, Shield Block, and Thai Kick (This is all done from the same leg without it touching the ground)
Cross, Lead Uppercut, Cross
2- Self-defense
Choke Defense
Lat Release and Vital Points
Forward Roll
Backward Roll
Side Roll
Cartwheel
Hair Pulls
3- Breaking
Legs-Step in Side Kick
4- Forms
Dan Gun
Dan Gun is named after Dan Gun, the legendary founder of Korea in 2333 B.C.
Dangun Wanggeom was the legendary founder of Gojoseon, the first ever Korean kingdom, around present-day Liaoning, Manchuria, and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. His grandfather Hwanin was the “Lord of Heaven” and he had a son named Hwanung who wanted to live on earth. So he was granted 3000 followers and descended onto the Baekdu Mountains where he founded Sinsi or “City of God”. Hwanung instituted laws and moral codes.
One day a tiger and a bear prayed to Hwanung that they might become human. Upon hearing their prayers, Hwanung prescribed a task to which only the Bear was able to complete. For this the bear was turned into a woman named Ungnyeo. She was grateful but still without a husband; so Hwanung decided to make her his wife- and soon after she gave birth to Dan gun. He ascended to the throne, built the walled city of Asadal (Morning Land/Mountain) situated near Pyongyang and called the kingdom Joseon aka Gojoseon.”
Consisting of 21 movements; all the punches in Dan-Gun are high section (at eye level), symbolizing Dan gun scaling a mountain. Its diagram is the shape of a capital I.
5- Knowledge
1-General Choi Hong Hi- is regarded by many as the ‘Founder of Taekwondo’—most often by International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) organizations. He studied Taek Kyon and Shotokan karate. Choi combined elements of Taekkyeon and Karate to develop a martial art that he called “Taekwon-Do” which means “foot, hand, the way” or “the way of hand and foot”. Choi was born and died in what is now North Korea.
Korea has a Communist North and a South Republic due to the agreement between China (which backed the North and the US (which backed the South) after the Korean War.
This issue led to General Choi Hong Hi’s ostracism by others in the Taekwondo community as they were against his wish to teach this style to those in his homeland of North Korea.
The Original Masters of Taekwon-Do -is a group of twelve South Korean martial art masters assembled by the Korea Taekwon-Do Association (KTA) in the early 1960s to promote the newly established art of taekwondo.
From this Organization comes The World Taekwondo Federation (WT) organizations, who portray General Choi as unimportant or as dishonorable.
2-Thailand is a country in Asia that is southeast of Korea. It was once known as Siam. From it comes the Art of Muay Thai. Muay Thai is known as “the art of eight limbs” because it is characterized by the combined use of fists, elbows, knees, shins, which makes a full-contact fighter very efficient.
Muay Thai became widespread internationally in the twentieth century, when practitioners defeated notable practitioners of other martial arts. It is a blend of Hard and Soft techniques.
3- Hard and Soft Arts/Techniques
A hard technique meets force with force, either with a linear, head-on force-blocking technique, or by diagonally cutting the strike with one’s force; thus interrupting the flow of attack. Although hard techniques require greater strength to be successful, it is the mechanics of the technique that accomplish the defense. They are affected by footwork and skeletal alignment. For the most part, hard techniques are direct.
Examples are:
A Taekwondo block aimed to break or halt the aggressor’s arm.
A Muay Thai shield block with the shin; to break the leg of the aggressor.
The goal of the soft technique is to deflect the attacker’s force and momentum to his or her disadvantage, with the defender exerting as little force as possible. This allows the defender to lead the attacker in a direction to where the defender will be advantageously positioned and the attacker off balance.
The defender leads the attack by redirecting the attacker’s forces against him or her, or away from the defender — instead of meeting the attack with a block.
Often techniques such as throws and armlocks might resemble hard martial art techniques, yet are distinctly soft technique because their application requires minimal force.
4- Muay Boran means “ancient boxing”, Originally “Toi Muay” was a general name for the empty handed martial arts of Thailand prior to the introduction of modern rules in the 1930s by King Rama VII. There are several old styles that were developed in various regions of Thailand that are now lumped into names such as “Muay Chaiya,” “Mae Mai Muay Thai,” “Muay Lopburi,” and “Muay Korat.” But regardless on which regional variant it was they all have been driven to near-extinction due to the popularity of the ring sport we now know as “Muay Thai” or, “Thai Boxing”.
Muay Boran was originally developed for self-defense and was also taught to the Thai military for use in warfare. Matches between practitioners of the art then began to be held. These soon became an integral part of Thai culture with fights being held at festivals and fighters from the different areas of Thailand testing their styles against each other. Fighters began to wrap their hands and forearms in hemp rope which not only protected their fists from injury but also made their strikes more likely to cut an opponent. Muay Boran fighters were highly respected and the best were enlisted into the King’s royal guard.