Here’s what our students need to achieve before they can test for their next belt. We use a color-coded tape system to mark their progress:

• Yellow Tape - Tenets Shoutout: Students recognizing peers who exemplify our core values like respect and integrity. Those who get a shoutout, receive a stripe! If you get more than one shoutout, you get a bar on the stripe to count the shoutouts!

• White Tape - Korean Language: Mastering new phrases each week. With quizzes before each test! Study material will be found here in the Champion’s Vault!

• Green Tape - Technical Skills: Perfecting our blocks and strikes. Aimed more at proper execution so that in the scenario they have to apply these skills in the real world, they can be confident in their own abilities.

• Blue Tape - Kicking Techniques: From the basics to breaking kicks, they’re kicking it up a notch!

• Red Tape - Poomsae Patterns: Working on their patterns and precision. Students must be able to perform their pattern on their own without assistance to be able to move on to the next level. This includes form, stances, grace and memorization.

• Black Tape - Sparring: Applying their skills in controlled sparring sessions. This includes, strength, speed, form, control, and perseverance.

Each color represents a specific skill area they’re mastering. Let’s encourage our kids as they work towards these goals!