The Orange Belt Syllabus (updated)

Students must have a good understanding of the yellow belt syllabus, as well as the following techniques and be able to preform these techniques safely with control.

Ukemi Waza (Falling Techniques)

  • Pegleg
  • Front Drop
  • Over-the-belt
  • Side Drop / Kick-Up and drop
  • Diving forwards roll over someone on all fours
  • Off-the-back from someone on all fours
  • Shoulder roll / Granby roll

Martial Warmup Drills

  • Standard Kumi Kata drill – (sleeve lapel – left/right)
  • High Kumi Kata drill – (high sleeve collar– left/right)
  • Juji-Gatame Drill
  • Sakaku-Jime Drill

Releases

  • Double wrist grab
  • Two handed single wrist grab
  • Rear hair grab
  • Rear two handed strangle
  • Single handed strangle

Atemi Waza

  • Blade edge hand / knife hand, Forearm (outside), Mae Geri, Mae washi Geri (low level), Knee, Heel
    stomp, Jab, Cross
  • Uke to deliver clean and controlled jab and cross punches on target with appropriate choices of force
    and resistance in all attacks dependent on size, conditioning and experience of tori
  • Basic execution of complementary atemi where directed with control
  • Appropriate ground defensive striking (previously finish-offs) with correct posture, distance, power and
    control as directed

Kansetzu Waza (Joint Locking Techniques)

  • Armlock 1 Outside (straight wrist grab, arm drag)
  • Armlock 3 (downward – X block – Fig 4)
  • Armlock 3 (single/double lapel/throat grab – 2 hands to elbow)
  • Ude Gatame (single/double lapel/throat grab – 2 hands to elbow)
  • Armlock 4 (over arm body grab)
  • Armlock 2 to Wristlock 1
  • Armlock 2 to Armlock 1
  • Wrist lock 2 (under arm rear body grab – NZ version)

Wristlocks

1 to 3 with basic put-down and finish. No throw with kote gaeshi (tori must take care of uke)

wrist lock 1 – Kote gaeshi (Wrist twist / turn over)

wrist lock 2 – Ura kote (Reverse wrist)

wrist lock 3 – Kote gatame (Wrist Lock)

Arm Locks

4 Gedan ude garami (Lower level arm entanglement)

5 Hiji gatame (Elbow lock)

6 Ude gatame (Arm lock)

Nage Waza (Throw Techniques)

  • Koshi Guruma – (roundhouse – note: rear leg)
  • O Goshi (overarm body grab)
  • Kouchi Gari – (front kick)
  • Kosoto Gari – (downward strike to head with cosh)
  • Kosoto Gari – (back hand strike to head with cosh)
  • Kosoto Gake (under arm body grab)
  • Osoto to Koshi Guruma Combination (uke steps forward to adopt sleeve/lapel grip and pushes tori back.
    Uke draws back to avoid Osoto attempt leaving space for Koshi guruma attack)

O Goshi (Major hip)

Kouchi gari (from mae geri) (Minor inner reap)

Kuzushi

  • Kuzushi kata (Balance breaking form)

Ne Waza

  • Closed Guard
  • Scissor Sweep
  • Hip Bump Sweep
  • Tripod Sweep against standing atta

Defences

Defence against body grabs

  • Over-arm grab from the front using ogoshi
  • Under-arm grab from the front using kosoto gake
  • Over-arm grab from the rear using seoi otoshi
  • Under-arm grab from the rear using wristlock number 2

Defence against a cosh

  • Over-head attack (from 45 degrees) using koshi guruma with disarm and finish
  • Back-hand using kosoto gake or kosoto gari with disarm and finish

Other

Knowledge and importance of warm-up and cool-down techniques