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Aikido Tests for Rank |
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Home Who Calendar Aikido Starting Local Regional Kanji Terms Tests 5th kyu 4th kyu 3th kyu |
January 1, 2003 Promotions 4th kyu: Erik Kluzek, Aimé Fournier, Steve Emmerson and Loren Spencer.
| January 1, 2004 Promotions 5th kyu: Tom Acierno.
| January 1, 2005 Promotions 5th kyu: Nathan Fisher and Julia Gunyuk.
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Why do we have tests?
When you start aikido, you wear a white belt and you don't have a rank. Something appeals to you about learning how to take roll, knowing a few Japanese words, and working out with your mates on the mat. With a hundred reasons to do something else, you keep coming to practice. Tests are a methodical way of organizing this knowledge and recognition of your perseverance.
Kyu tests "White belt"
shikko
ukemi
katate dori
tai no henko kihon & ki no nagare
ikkyo
shiho-nage omote
tsuki
kote-gaeshi
shomen uchi
irimi nage
ryote dori kokyu-ho (grab with both hands, straight across)
3rd kyu
2nd kyu
1st kyu
1st dan
2nd dan
Your first test: the 5th kyu test.
What do these terms mean?
Test begins
rei
UKEMI
TACHI WAZA (empty hand, no bokken or jo)
suwari-waza (sitting)
rei
Test ends
Life after 5th kyu.
Dan tests "Black belt"