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GREEN BELT

OVERVIEW

For us, Green Belt represents the beginning of real mastery of the system. When
we test people for advancement to the next belt level, Green Belt is where people
start to fail. It is certainly possible to fail a Yellow or Orange Belt test, but as
long as the students can fight through the stress, show aggressiveness, and

perform techniques adequately, they should pass Yellow and Orange.

Green Belt is where you need to bring it all together: You must deal with the
stress, be aggressive, AND execute techniques sharply and cleanly. Expect to
train for at least nine months at this level, assuming a minimum of two training
sessions a week.

The material in this section includes the following:

Combatives

Among the combative techniques covered in this section are headbutts. Green
Belt also introduces more traditional martial arts kicks such as slap kick and heel

kick. Although we don’t stress these kicks nor emphasize them for street
situations, we do believe these techniques improve our self-defense abilities. The
kicks encourage flexibility as well as help us learn to defend against these types
of attacks. Also, while you should always stick with the simplest and most
powerful strikes, these kicks will help you feel that you can at least deliver some
kind of attack from any angle during the fight.

Defenses and Self-Defense

Hair grab defenses are introduced at this level, and Inside and Outside Defenses
are featured more fully here. Outside Defenses against Punches are made against
attacks coming from outside our hand position. Although wide attacks (such as

the attacks given in 360° Defenses) and even short attacks that travel from the