Red Belt

1- Techniques
Legs
Double Crescent Kick
Double Back Kick
Scissor Kick

Hands
Leopard Punch (Middle Knuckles)
Spear Hand Downward Thrust

Blocks
W-Shaped Block

Concepts
Climbing an Opponent
Kick Catch- Twister (Catch Step Away, and Twist leg causing Opponent to Fall Backward)
Thrust Kick divert (Pass the Leg, Opponent in Splits, You’re Behind)

Clinching fundamentals
Fake Side Clinch Choke- (Under Arm, Around the Neck, Lock Hand, Lean Down)
Clinch Dump- (Under Arms Forward Shoulders Dump to Lead Leg)
Clinch Swirl Throw- (Under Arms, Twist to Lead Leg)

Combinations
The performance of 5 connective techniques molded by the student; ending with a clinch, as many Knee strikes as desired, and then any number of one of the Clinch throws.

2- Self-defense
Head Locks from the Ground

Arm Drag Takedown

3- Breaking
Legs-Axe Kick Hands- Ridge Hand

4- FORM

Toi Gye
Toi Gye (Retreating Creek) is the pen name of the noted scholar Yi Hwang (16th century). He was an authority on neo-Confucianism.
He established the Yeongnam School and set up the Dosan Seowon, a private Confucian academy. He belonged to the Jinseong Yi clan and was the youngest son among eight children. A child prodigy, he learned the Analects of Confucius from his uncle at age twelve. He admired the poetry of Tao Qian, so he started writing poetry.
Around the age of twenty, he immersed himself in the study of I Ching and Neo-Confucianism. He was appointed to various government positions from the age of 39 and sometimes held multiple positions. His integrity made him relentless as he took part in purges of corrupt government officials. On numerous occasions he was even exiled from the capital for his firm commitment to principle.

He was disillusioned by the power struggles and discord in the royal court and was continuously brought out of retirement. During forty years of public life, he served four kings and on his death, Yi Hwang was posthumously promoted to the highest ministerial rank.

Yi Hwang was the author of many books on Confucianism, and he followed the dualistic Neo-Confucianism.
He placed emphasis on the i, the formative element, as the existential force that determines gi.
This school of thought contrasted with the school that focused on the concrete element of gi, established by Yi Hwang’s counterpart Yi I.

Understanding the determinative pattern of i would be more essential in understanding the universe than recognizing the principles that govern individual manifestations of gi. This approach of placing importance on the role of i became the core of the Yeongnam School, where Yi Hwang’s legacy lived on.

Toi Gye has 37 movements and its diagram is the Chinese character for scholar, a plus sign with a line across the bottom.

5- Knowledge

1-Self Defense- Psychology -The need to feel safe and secure is ingrained in all of us. The thought of becoming the victim of a criminal or violent act is disturbing. Unmanaged fear or a sense of helplessness can adversely affect health and the quality of your lives. Being safety conscious does not mean being fearful, paranoid, or afraid to leave your house.

-Self-defense knowledge and skills build a sense of control, security, and well-being. This allows you to;
-Understand and manage fear,
-Motivate yourself to be “responsible” for your personal safety through study and training,
-Understand the impact self-esteem has on emotional resilience, crisis performance and victim selection.

Intelligence- Your most powerful weapon is your brain. Understanding the dynamics of confrontations will have a big impact on your ability to recognize, avoid or respond effectively to violence.

This situational awareness is the cultivation of knowledge, intuition, awareness, and assessment skills. Every violent situation is preceded by pre incident clues. Knowing how to recognize and respond to them is the essence of successful self-defense.

Victim Selection- There is a selection process, as well as the criteria of a “desirable target”.  You can influence that process.

People who are trained in self-defense are seldom confronted. Their awareness and skills (movement, posture, etc.) project unconscious signals to a predator that they are not an easy target. The predator looks elsewhere.

Recognizing a Predator- There are no unique physical characteristics that separate people who victimize others from those who don’t. Usually, they look just like everyone else. However, their behavior is another matter.

Most communication is non-verbal. We transmit much of our intent in the way that we communicate and behave.
Essentially there are two types of “bad guys” to be aware of. The predator, who deliberately sets out to locate, select, and attack a suitable victim and the ticking time bomb.

-The predator is more methodical and controlled in his or her approach.

-The time bomb is emotionally unstable and prone to violent outbursts, lashing out at anyone who happens to get in his way.

By understanding predatory selection and attack methods, you can recognize and avoid them. This involves learning to detect and recognize behavior cues that identify a potential assailant before the selection process is complete.

Response Options- It is dangerous to imply that there is a single solution to all threatening situations. There is, in fact, a range of responses available to you. The situation and circumstances will dictate which of them is most appropriate.

When learning a response system, you must also consider the legal consequences of your actions. We all have the legal right to defend ourselves. However, at what point does an effort to defend yourself become excessive? How do we know how much force to use to defend ourselves? Any self-defense program should discuss your legal right to defend yourself, how to respond appropriately and how to justify your actions.

There are generally 5 categories of response options relevant to confrontational situations.
They are: Compliance, Escape, De-escalation, Assertiveness, Fighting Back

Which one is the most appropriate depends on the circumstances and nature of the confrontation. You should possess skills in each response category as well as knowledge about when each is applicable.

Prevention- Prevention tips are simple precautionary steps you can take to reduce the likelihood that you will become the victim of a crime. However, these lists of “do’s and don’ts” could number in the hundreds.

By understanding the operative principles behind prevention tips, you can improvise safety tactics “on the fly”. Armed with this knowledge and your own common sense, you can incorporate those tips with which you feel comfortable, and which are conducive to your life.

-Training- Competence is the result of your physical conditioning, skill and attitude. Effective self-defense skills are the result of gradually and consistently incorporating safety habits into your life.

1-Bruce Lee –born Lee Jun-Fan he was known professionally as Bruce Lee. He was a Hong Kong and American actor, martial artist, philosopher, filmmaker, and founder of the martial art Jeet Kune Do. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and an icon of the 20th century.
Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, in San Francisco’s Chinatown. According to the Chinese zodiac, Lee was born in both the hour and the year of the Dragon, which according to tradition is a strong and fortuitous omen.
Lee’s father, Lee Hoi-chuen, was one of the leading Cantonese opera and film actors at the time, and was embarking on a year-long opera tour with his family on the eve of the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong.
Lee’s mother, Grace Ho, an adopted daughter who was of Germanic descent, was from one of the wealthiest and most powerful clans in Hong Kong, the Ho-tungs. As such, the young Bruce Lee grew up in an affluent and privileged environment. Despite the advantage of his family’s status, the neighborhood in which Lee grew up became overcrowded, dangerous, and full of gang rivalries due to an influx of refugees fleeing communist China for Hong Kong, at that time a British Crown colony.

After Lee was involved in several street fights, his parents decided that he needed to be trained in the martial arts. Lee’s first introduction to martial arts was through his father, from whom he learned the fundamentals of Wu-style T’ai chi Ch’uan.

The largest influence on Lee’s martial arts development was his study of Wing Chun. Lee began training in Wing Chun when he was 16 years old under the Wing Chun teacher Yip Man in 1957, after losing several fights with rival gang members.

After a year of his Wing Chun training, most of Yip Man’s other students refused to train with Lee after they learned of his mixed ancestry (through his mother), as the Chinese were generally against teaching their martial arts techniques to non-Asians.

However, Lee showed a keen interest in Wing Chun, and continued to train privately with Yip Man. Due to poor academic performance he was shuffled to different schools and was mentored by Brother Edward, a teacher and coach of the school boxing team.

In 1959, Lee got into another street fight and the police were called. Lee’s father decided his son should leave Hong Kong as Lee’s opponent had an organized crime background, and there was the possibility that a contract was out for his life.

Martial Arts

Savate
Savate is also known as French boxing, French kickboxing or French footfighting .It is a French martial art that uses the hands and feet as weapons, combining elements of western boxing with graceful kicking techniques. Only foot kicks are allowed unlike some systems such as Muay Thai, Silat and Yaw-Yan, which allow the use of the knees or shins. Savate is a French word for “old shoe”. Savate is one of the few styles of kickboxing in which the fighters habitually wear shoes. Savate takes its name from the French for “old shoe” (heavy footwear, especially the boots used by French military and sailors.

In the south, especially in the port of Marseille, sailors developed a fighting style involving high kicks and open-handed slaps. It is conjectured that this kicking style was developed in this way to allow the fighter to use a hand to hold onto something for balance on a rocking ship’s deck, and that the kicks and slaps were used on land to avoid the legal penalties for using a closed fist, which was considered a deadly weapon under the law. It is also believed that the high kicks in Karate came from Savate.

Kickboxing
Kickboxing is a group of stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from Karate, Muay Thai, Khmer Boxing, and Western boxing. Japanese kickboxing originated in the 1960s, with competitions held since then. American kickboxing originated in the 1970s and was brought to prominence in September 1974, when the Professional Karate Association (PKA) held the first World Championships. Historically, kickboxing can be considered a hybrid martial art formed from the combination of elements of various traditional styles. This approach became increasingly popular since the 1970s, and since the 1990s, kickboxing has contributed to the emergence of mixed martial arts via further hybridization with ground fighting techniques from Brazilian jiu-jitsu and folk wrestling.