Dan Grade Syllabus

KIHON - TSUKI - KERI - UKE

1. Kette junzuki

2. Kette gyakuzuki

3. Kette junzuki no tsukkomi

4. Kette gyakuzuki no tsukkomi

5. Tobikomi nagashizuki 

kette mawatte:

jodan uke or

gedan barai or

jodan gaiwan uke or

jodan naiwan uke

KIHON KERI

1.      Okuri ashi maegeri chudan

2.      Tsugi ashi mawashigeri jodan

3.      Tsugi ashi sokuto kebanashi chudan

4.      Ushirogeri chudan

REN ZOKU WAZA (with a partner)

1.    Ren zoku waza nihon me (no 2)

     Kamae: Gyaku gamai (Ukemi: hidari, Torimi: migi Torimi: 

     Tsugi ashi sokugeri gedan – jodan nagashi junzuki – mawashigeri chudan – kekaeshi sokuto kebanashi – jodan uraken uchi –chudan gyakuzuki.

2.    Ren zoku waza gohon me (no 5)

Kamae: Migi ai gamai

Ukemi: Okuri ashi jodan junzuki.

Torimi: Naname ushiro e uchi okuri ashi – dojini nagashi junzuki onajiku chudan mawashigeri – okuri ashi gyakuzuki chudan – uchi ashi barai – tate empi uchi.

3.    Ren zoku waza happon me (no 8)

     Kamae: Migi ai gamai

Ukemi: Okuri ashi jodan junzuki – chudan maegeri – jodan junzuki

Torimi: Ushiro e okuri ashi jodan nagashi uke – uchi okuri ashi chudan nagashi uke- jodan nagashi uke – dojini jodan (kubi) haito uchi – ayumi ashi uraken (kubi) uchi jodan.

KATA (ONE KATA FROM PINAN)

Shodan           

Nidan              

Sandan           

Yondan           

Kushanku, Naihanchi,

Kushanku, Chinto

Kushanku, Seishan

Kushanku, Chinto

Godan and higher - ONE KATA FROM PINAN AND ANY KATA ASKED FOR BY THE EXAMINER ON THE DAY AT THE TABLE 

IPPON GUMITE

Ippon me (No. 1)

Nanahon me   (No. 7)     

KIHON GUMITE

Shodan

Nidan

Sandan

Yondan

Ippon me (No. 1)

Ippon me (No.1)

Nihon me (No. 2)

Ippon me (No.1)

Nihon me (No. 2)

Roppon me (no.6)Sanbon me (no.3)   

Gohon me (no.5)

Yonhom me (No. 4)

Nanahon me (no.7)

Happon me (no.8)     

Kyuhon me (no.9)

Godan and higher - ANY NUMBER ASKED FOR BY THE EXAMINER ON THE DAY AT THE TABLE 

Godan and higher - ANY NUMBER ASKED FOR BY THE EXAMINER ON THE DAY AT THE TABLE 

JIYU KUMITE 

The following essays to be prepared and handed in before taking the Dan Grade examination 

SENIORS: 

Read any of the following books and write an essay on your understanding of the text 

BUSHIDO THE SOUL OF JAPAN by Inazo Nitobe

Published by Charles E. Tuttle Co. 

A BOOK OF FIVE RINGS by Mushashi Miyamoto

Published by Harper Collins 

ZEN IN THE ART OF ARCHERY by Eugen Harrigel

Published by  Routledge & Kegan Paul 

THE SPIRIT OF BUDO: OLD TRADITIONS FOR PRESENT DAY LIFE

by Trevor Leggett.  Published by Kegan Paul International 

JUNIORS ONLY:  

Write an essay with the title ‘Karate Training and my Life’