Senior Red Belt

1- Techniques
Legs
Shin Kicks 3 Directional Kicks

Hands
1 Inch Punch

Blocking
Inverted Arch and Upward Block

Concepts
Head-butting: How to, its benefits, appropriateness and drawbacks.
Group Sparring
Kick Catch- (Hook Leg, Same Side Hook Kick to Leg, Forward Lean- For Back Fall Use Lead Hook)

Clinching fundamentals
Bottle Opener- (Arm around Neck, Lock Hand, Step into Low Stance)
Elbow Lock- (Wrap Arm up and Over- Swirl Arm)

Combinations
Your own Combinations should be easy to demonstrate by this time, utilizing at least 3 of the previous sets of techniques together in succession.

2- Self-defense

Punches from an aggressor in guard

Punches from mounted aggressor

Utilizing Kicks while on the ground

3- Breaking

Legs Spinning Hook Kick
Hand Punch

4- Form

Hwa Rang
Hwarang, or Flowering Knights, were an elite group of male youth in the ancient Korean Kingdom Silla.
The king of Silla, “concerned about the strengthening of the country, issued a decree and chose boys from good families who were of good morals and renamed them hwarang.”
The youths who were chosen became the warriors for the Silla Dynasty during the age of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.
A close relationship did exist between the Hwarang and Buddhism because Buddhism was accepted as a state religion within Silla. The Buddhist monks were often mentors for the Hwarang in both physical and spiritual ways. The Hwarang would seek the teachings of these Buddhist monks because they knew that the martial arts practiced by these Buddhist monks were a source through which they could strengthen themselves for greater success in the future and for the benefit of the Silla Kingdom.
The monks would train themselves in physical fitness exercises through self-defense techniques, countering the weakening effects of long-term meditation and enabling them to protect themselves from bandits and robbers who tried to steal the donations and charities that were collected by the monks on their pilgrimages.
Both the Buddhist monks and the Hwarang would go on journeys to famous mountains to heighten their training and would seek encounters with supernatural beings for protection and the success of the Silla Kingdom.
Won Gwang Beop Sa was a Buddhist monk who was asked by the Hwarang to teach them ways to develop ambition, bravery, and honor, in order to protect the Silla Kingdom from the other kingdoms inhabiting the peninsula.
Won Gwang trained these youths in three areas
1.) Self-defense capabilities
2.) Self-confidence
3.) Self-control

Won Gwang taught the youths of the Hwarang to become warriors who could defend their beliefs with martial arts, to be confident in their actions, and to control themselves and their surroundings. He also gave them martial arts techniques that combined the secret Buddhist monk’s physical exercises, along with Taekkyeon, the art of foot fighting that existed at that time.
Won Gwang also proposed 5 principles or guidelines that were later called the Five Precepts for Secular Life which became a list of ethics that the Hwarang could embrace.
1.) Show allegiance to one’s sovereign.
2.) Treat one’s parents with respect and devotion.
3.) Exhibit trust and sincerity amongst friends.
4.) Never retreat in battle.
5.) Exercise discretion when taking a life.

These commandments and teachings were followed by the Hwarang to protect Silla from rivaling kingdoms and helped unify the nation of Ancient Korea until the fall of the Silla Kingdom.
With the consolidation and expansion of Silla and intensification of military rivalries among the Three Kingdoms in the 6th century, the Silla court took a more active interest in the Hwarang. Hwarang groups were usually led by a youth of aristocratic standing, and the state appointed a high-ranking official to oversee the organization.
The Hwarang in the later 6th and 7th centuries trained in horsemanship, swordsmanship, archery, javelin and stone throwing, polo, and ladder-climbing. By the seventh century the organization had grown greatly in prestige and numbered several hundred bands. The Hwarang were greatly influenced by Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist ideals.

The 29 movements refer to the 29th infantry division, where Taekwon Do developed into maturity.
Its diagram is a capital “I”.

5- Knowledge

Filipino martial arts

Yaw-Yan
Yaw-Yan, also called Sayaw ng Kamatayan or “Dance of Death” is a Filipino style of Kickboxing. It was developed by Napoleon A. Fernandez (Master Nap” and based on older Filipino martial arts. Since its inception in the 1970s, it has dominated the kickboxing scene in the Philippines and has proven very effective against other stand-up fighting arts.
Yaw-Yan closely resembles Muay Thai, but differs in the hip-torquing motion as well as the downward-cutting nature of its kicks, and the emphasis on delivering attacks from long range (while Muay Thai focuses more on clinching).
“Master Nap” had a background in various martial arts such as Jeet Kune Do, Karate, Eskrima, Aikido, and Judo. He is said to have modified all the martial art forms that he studied and fused them to create a martial art form that is deadly to opponents and “advantageous to the build of Filipinos”. Yaw Yan was introduced to the public in 1972. It includes elements of striking, takedowns, grappling, stick and knife fighting, and additional kickboxing material.
The forearm strikes, elbows, punches, dominating palms, and hand movements are empty-hand translations of the bladed weapons. There are 12 “bolo punches” which were patterned from traditional Filipino martial art of eskrima.

Arnis
-Arnis, also known as Eskrima and Kali, is the national sport and martial art of the Philippines. The three are roughly interchangeable umbrella terms for the traditional martial arts of the Philippines (“Filipino Martial Arts,” or FMA) that emphasize weapon-based fighting with sticks, knives, bladed weapons and various improvised weapons.

Arnis also includes hand-to-hand combat, joint locks, grappling and weapon disarming techniques. Although in general, emphasis is put on weapons for these arts, some systems put empty hands as the primary focus and some old school systems do not teach weapons at all.
-Arnis comes from arnés, Old Spanish for ‘armor’ (harness is an archaic English term for armor, which comes from the same roots as the Spanish term). It is said to derive from the armor costumes used in Moro-moro stage plays where actors fought mock battles using wooden swords.
-Eskrima (also spelled Escrima) is a Filipinization of the Spanish word for fencing, esgrima. Their cognate in French is escrime and is related to the English term ‘skirmish’.
-Kali- Ther are multiple theories on its origin. Most likely, Kali derives from the pre-Hispanic Filipino term for blades and fencing, Calis, documented by Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition chronicler Antonio Pigafetta during their journey through the Visayas.
As Arnis was an art usually practiced by the peasant or commoner class (as opposed to nobility or warrior classes), most practitioners lacked the scholarly education to create any kind of written record. While the same can be said of many martial arts, this is especially true for Arnis because almost all of its history is anecdotal, oral or promotional.