Green Stripe
5th kyu (Go kyu) GREEN STRIPE BELT Requirements
1st stripe Vocabulary:
- Ate – Smash
- Age – Rising
- Barai – Parry
- Chudan – Middle level
- Empi – Elbow
- Gedan – Low level
- Haishu – Flat hand
- Haishu Barai – Flat hand parry or block
- Jodan – Head level
- Kakato – Heel
- Keage – Rising foot
- Kekomi – Foot thrust
- Ken – Fist, knuckles
- Mae – Forward, front
- Mawashi – Roundhouse
- Nagashi barrai – push away parry
Physical Requirements:
2nd stripe Basics:
- Ten step drill with punch moving in seisan (two steps).
- Ten step drill with punch moving in seisan (one step).
- Ten step drill with appropriate strikes moving in seisan.
3rd stripe Kicks:
- Mawashi geri (Roundhouse Kick – near and wide) with Tetsui Uchi (Hammerfist strike downward).
- Standing
- Stepping up, to the side
- Fading
4th stripe Self Defense:
DUST
- Front and side headlock.
- Front – Groin, groin, grab behind knees and shoulder drop and follow up if unsucessful side step and sit out.
- Side – Groin front, groin back, reach arond control at nose and knee, force head back and knee down.
- Front and rear bear hugs. (Hands free, hands pinned)
- Front – Eyes, ears, nose, throat, knees and follow up (free)
- Head but, knee smash, grab and twist (pinned)
- Rear – Head, shins, fingers or elbows and follow up (pinned)
- Stomp stomp, head but, kick back, elbows or punch back to head and work fingers and follow up. (free)
5th stripe Sparring:
Offensive:
- Slide step with rear foot and straight punch, step with front foot and reverse punch, then with front leg __________.
- Front kick
- Side kick or hook kick
- Roundhouse kick
- Reverse crescent kick
- Heel hook
Defensive:
- Leg blocking and checking
- Jamming
6th stripe Kata:
- Pinan Shodan
