What is your black belt test like?

Question

for mine i had to do the entire curriculum, full contact sparring for 3 minutes, break boards (flying sidekick, hammerfist, punch, chop, ridgehand, elbow strike, spin heel kick, jumping front kick, and for my 2nd degree test a reverse side through 2 boards, for my 3rd degree test a reverse side through 3 boards.) we also had to fight a back attack on the bullet man. the bullet man is one of the instructors dressed in a bunch of padding. we have to stand with our eyes closed and he comes and grabs you from behind and yells and stuff. then you have to yell and fight him off.

what do you do at your schools black belt test?

Answer 1

I'm not a black belt, but my Sifu says that the first black belt for us is like 7-8 hours long. Scary. That's just for normal black belt, but For degrees it's like 10-15 minutes lol.

Answer 2

The difficult part was ours was on a beach.  A really soft, deep beach that walking across is hard enough.  Getting sand in your eyes is not fun.

The test itself is a secret, although I was wearing a Bodybug at the time and I burned almost as many calories as if I had been running the entire time.

Answer 3

i do tae kwon do and im 13 but i broke a brick for 1st degree test and for 2nd i broke 2 they asked me to right an essay on why i joined and my journey from there  

Answer 4

Although my first black belt test was many years ago, it is an experience I will never forget.  We started with Kata, 13 in all, then moved through kiso-kumite and bunkai-kumite, if you don't know what this is research it.  Then came weapons kata using the bo, tonfa, sai, and nunchaku, a total of 7 kata. Then weapon kumite.   We ended with 7 rounds of sparring and a final round of multiple opponent sparring, 5 on 1.  The test took around 3 1/2 hours to complete.

Answer 5

I will have to do all the Kihon tsuki (basic hand techniques), renraku waza (combination techniques), sanbon gumite (3-step sparring techniques), ohyu-gumite (semi-free sparring techniques), kihon gumite, kata (kushanku, seishan and pinan kata as requested)  and  jiyu kumite (sparring).

We will also have to know the syllabus up to 1st Dan.

We have to travel to Scarborough for the grading to be tested by Sensei's that we have not met before.

I'm not looking forward to it.

Answer 6

Don't forget that there are tests much harder than any blackbelt test could ever be.

I know a student who suffered with fear and anxiety for years. The hardest thing she ever did was show up alone to the school's christmas party. That may seem like nothing to the average person but you have to know how strong fear and anxiety can be. She surely passed a real hard test and in real life. It has nothing to do with breaking boards or flying kicks but that night was harder than any blackbelt test she could have ever taken.

One thing a school test can never do is prove how brave you really are.

The rest of us just have to settle for black belts.

Answer 7

Sounds like you had it easy, mine went for 5 hours one day then began again the next, that doesn't even begin to cover the written.

I guess all clubs are different.

If you got out of it with only 3 minutes of  kumite you're one lucky person.

Answer 8

My test was 6 long hours of pain. First an intense work out and then forms and combinations. I was in the front of class so I had to lead. If you made a mistake you did push ups. We must of done more than 600 push ups.

Then there was a ceremony. We preformed our forms and combinations, and had to break 5 seprate boards. At the end we got our belts, a plack, a sword, and a good slap on the back.

Answer 9

We didn't test in a strict "Do X." Shidoshi just started paying attention to our technique during training, our commitment, our understanding... The stranger part was just knowing it was going to happen.

Answer 10

tough

Answer 11

ours is ridiculous, it took 8 hours. we start off with a 3 mile run, then we have to do rolls and falls, then we do full kihon (all the blocks, punches, kicks, combinations), then we have to get a certain amount of push ups in a minuet, then sit ups, then we do all of our katas for our rank, our sheite katas,  whatever katas they choose, weapons kata, and the bunkai to all of those, then we do knife and stick work, then we do ippon kumite which is they come in with a move and you block and defend, then we do our self defense breaks against these 2 huge black belts, then we do sparring full contact for 5 min, then 5 min with just hands, then 5 min with just feet, then we do breathing tests, then we have to do 3 station breaking, then we have to break 2 boards with our hand and then 4 bricks with our feet and then 2 tiles with our hand and then we have to do a terms test and meditation. we also have to write a report. the whole thing is point based and if you get enough, you pass.