Thanks for your amazing responses! 🙏 Check out my website to learn more about Karate: www.karatebyjesse.com 😄

Nice.... U r teaching ur students exactly what they need .... Not just sports karate as in many dojos... Oss..

A Black Belt, over time, fades to white. Where the journey begins again.

I’m testing in September for my black belt in kenpo. I’m 57 years young 🥋☺️

Guy fights girl: Both: Haha yes. This is fun Sensei: Y'all I'm giving black belts if you beat yo- Both: *_Eye glows red_*

To be a black belt in kyokushin I needed Written exam on karate history and terminology All katas from white belt including in ura Tamashiwari (minimum 3 boards) Kihon and endurance test (basically the whole test takes 8 hours) Kumite (15 fights) Completely drained at the end of the day but so rewarding Love your videos and the inclusion of grappling at your dojo Thank you

Man I would want to one day come to practice in your dojo. Your holistic approach to Karate is great and to be taught by many different styles of teachers in various different Martial arts, is great to. Love your videos and continue inspiring the next generations to become a better person through the teachings of Karate. Jesse you are an awesome teacher and one day I hope to train alongside you and learn from you in person. Ous.

I am 24 years old, having an impaired organ. I started learning Shitorio Karate during the lockdown. Next month, I will take.part in the green belt exam. I started my karate journey late though, but I dream of getting the black belt one day.

Great and interesting to see real life based kumite.. much more realistic than competition based fighting.. will have to give that a try in my school!

To become a blackbelt in Shotokan Karate at my dojo I was required to: Run 12km/7.5miles (Within the 8 hour grading, broken up into 3km portions throughout) All katas from white belt, including Bo staff, Sai, and Tonfa. Ground escapes Self defense (essentially 1-2 bunkai's from each Kata excluding weapons) Sparring multiple black belts at once, as well as fellow classmates who were also grading. Basics learnt from yellow belt onward (kicks, punches, throws, etc.) And hundreds of pushups, sit ups, jumping jacks, burpees I lost fifteen pounds from that grading alone but it was worth it.

It's refreshing to see so many younger students attending and practicing Karate, I really hope more people start to take on this art form and teach more people, not just as a sport or self defense. But as a reflection of the relationship between the mental and physical body.

After 8 years of training Kyokushin, my grading was done in 2 separate sessions. In the first session I had to take a theoretical test of 100 questions and afterwards teach a 2 hour class. The second session (next day) I had to do all the kihon, kata and kumite and of course the crazy amount of push-ups, squats + mae geri and situps. It was absolutely hell. After receiving my blackbelt, I was told that this is where the journey starts and I should keep forming my character and skills. Meanwhile I also started studying Goju Ryu to add to my experience. Hopefully for many years to come.

I am a Kung Fu instructor from the U.K for over 25 years. Even though our styles differ, I have tried a variety of styles of karate and multiple other styles over the years too. your approach to how you teach, guide and inspire your students with ur explanations, tone of voice and inkeeping with teaching current methods and with traditional values. Well done Jesse, it keeps my faith in the martial arts in general for the next generation of instructors. Thank you

3 3 hour days 1st day is cardio with running a mile being the biggest part of the day 2nd day kata with everything from the lowest kata to the highest we know and then all of them together without stopping and demonstrating bun kai from one kata of our choice 3rd day is a bunch of techniques, sparring combinations, ippon kumite, and self defense we had to memorize, and 5 self defense moves we came up with our selves

i live in north part of India and the exams for each belt is held every 6 months , and for white belts to blue belts the exam lasts for 4 days .... and for everyone else its lasts for 5 days except for black belts ... their exams lasts for 6 days and the timings are .... in the morning from 5 to 11-12 and in the evening from 5 to 8 - 9 .... continuous .... the exams are held outside on the ground regardless of weather ... (it rained for my black belt exam and we continued to give the exam) , the details of the exams are - 1st day exercises including cardio and yoga , 2nd day punches and punches techniques , 3rd day kicks and kicks techniques , 4th day kata , 5th day kumite , 6th day fight ending with some tips and tricks given by our country's highest ranking master ... Shihan . i am black belt from 2 styles ( goshin ryu and shito ryu ) and some of the teachings of our sensei are - karate is for defense , don't show off in front of people and always be humble . we do not really think much of breaking things , our teachers and seniors prefer growth instead of destruction so we do charity works , teach young girls for free who can't afford classes and plant trees . edit - like Mr Miyagi :)

Ours was a tough school. Two days camping in the woods. We had to run 10 miles swim 2 all the while being tested on our materials. Blind fold walking, kata on scary narrow cliffs, kickboxing, technique lines, mud fights, capture the flag at night, so much more. But at the end you have to survive being kicked by head instructor into a lake to get Black Belt.

In my dojo in brazil, shotokan style: u have to demonstrate all yellow to black belt kicks, punches, defences and stances; bunkai of heian shodan to basai dai, the kihons and 5 minutes kumite. Breaking wood is not usual here...

I love the bredth of your gradings. All of mine have been very simple; basics, kata, some kumite. My first club was incredibly demanding for gradings. Requiering a blackbelt to know all 26 kata and do basically everything ever! So when I left at green belt i had a super easy time at other clubs and competing at my grade level. But I did very much miss out on a lot of the training my first club afforded me.

I love that the kumite is based on possible real-life scenarios. Love your dojo. Keep it up.

Thank you for another great Karate video. I love seeing Kumite with the smaller gloves allowing grabs. There are only a couple of small Okinawan Karate dojos in this area and they both do Kumite. I train at a local self defense focused fighting gym, but the owner also has black belts in both Tang Soo Do and Shotokan, so he expresses great appreciation and respect for TKM. Many Karate like techniques are included in training as more advanced, next level inserts after more basic, gross motor skill (think Krav Maga) are learned. I also love seeing MMA fights where advanced fighters with Karate backgrounds successfully incorporate those styles and techniques. It is a beautiful sight to behold.

I am judo BB and got a BB in shotokan a couple of year ago.... I wish more karate organisation would adopt a similar grading model... To many are wkf focused imo

Last year I quit karate, I just didn't feel comfortable and it was becoming too intense. I started at 7 years old and quit at 11. I had the purple belt with 2 stripes, watching this brings back so many memories

To get your black belt at our dojo is not the easiest thing I've ever done .And yes, that's an understatement. After being able to execute techniques called out in Japanese, we then demonstrate set combinations, including kicking combinations. Then we show our kata, of which the most I've seen in a guy taking his 4th dan performing 19 kata one after the other as the examiners called them out. We don't really do weapons, though there is a requirement for weapon kata at 3rd dan. We'll move on to the pads, doing all the basic punches and kicks, plus any others the examiner wants to see. This section can take a couple of hours if there's a lot of people grading. You can end up doing hundreds of gyaku-zuki, oi-zuki, uraken, furu-zuki, koken, teisho, haito, various empi, mae-geri, mawashi-geri, ushiro-geri, otoshi geri, ushiro otoshi geri, ura mawashi geri and so on. Sometimes with variations, sometimes just in pairs. After all that we do a stress test. One person surrounded by three or four, with an assortment of weapons on the floor. Defend yourself for a set number of minutes against multiple attackers. In amongst this, you can get random things thrown at you. Blindfold defenses, chair defenses, floor work. Expect the unexpected! We finish with 100 pushups and 100 sit ups. That's the bit most of us dread! The whole thing takes between 3 and 4 hours. Edot: did I me tion that we spar?

Thank you for this Jesse San. I am happy with this video and will share it to my students, as they are not yet aware of what this entails. It's great they can get a perspective. Keep up the amazing work.

You're preparing your students to be better people altogether bro. What I admire about you is your humble attitude and open mind. Keep up the great work man.

Grat video Jesse! I especually enjoyed seeing your school's approach to kumite. It would be awesome to see a video on how you practice this more functional kumite (rules, dynamics, etc.), and how to safely incorporate locks, chockes, etc. Keep up the great work!

Good work Jesse... this is a very practical approach to Karate training.

I am still on the journey towards Black Belt currently in Shotokan Karate. In Taekwondo thought, to be a Black Belt, or rather 1st Decided Black Belt, you have to go through a total of 6 months as a 1st Received Black Belt. It is comprised of Forms/Kata, Sparring, and doing 2 station board breaks consisting of a hand technique and a jumping kick. The testing criteria is the same for 1st Decided Black Belt as well. I am proud of my accomplishment in Taekwondo, but I am prouder of my accomplishments thus far in Shotokan Karate, as it is not as relaxed, and I dare say as easy as Taekwondo was/is at the school I attend.

This is an excellent video. Wow! The take-downs and wrist locks look really cool. I also love how you’re training with your mom! Thanks Jesse.

This is how karate should be taught. Thank you for sharing sensei❤🙏🙏

Great! After about 15 years training diverses fight sports, specially kickboxing, I started training kyokushinkay some months ago, and I LOVE the traditional aproach of Karate. From the studies of Bunkai to the exploration of the own body through dicipline and application. Seeing this video I realise how much more Karate can be in a dojo like yours. Someday I'm going to okinawa to humbly learn more about the roots if Karate. Maybe, if I may have the opportunity, I'm going to be grateful to take part of one of your seminars! Thank you for your inspiration Sensei Jesse and may I be blessed with such honor. Osu!

This is so motivating 🙏

Great to see a variation of techniques in a shodan Grading, we are Wado Ryu based, we have kihon, pairs, Kata, breaking, fighting. However the grading is just a culmination of a years dedicated training where you are tested and judged throughout.

Awesome video. I hope someday i could visit your dojo! Best regards from Brazil

Your dojo is very good, I like so much your teaching and your style, it is very good! Thank you for your work.

thank you for showing me you are a realy good teacher for karate

Nice grading. Congratulations for all involved.

We must submit a 2 page paper on what a black belt means to us and why we deserve it. We have to sit in meditation for 1 hour without moving. Do a warm up which generally takes about 1 hour. Go through our entire curriculum which consists of 10 traditional open hand forms, 48 self defense techniques + 2 we have created ourselves (must do ground fighting for the ones we can), 7 weapons forms, various creative combos + a creative form we created ourselves, 29 sparring combos + 2 we have created ourselves. We must pass a 12 page written test which basically breaks down everything we have learned. Be attacked by all of the self defenses; spar. Power break through 3 boards (comes out to a little over 2 inches) one hand strike and one foot strike. A speed break (break a single board that is only held at one edge). Break a brick, and some secret stuff I can't share! My testing lasted for 11 hours and 30 mins. If you pass this day you get to move on to the second phase of testing which you also must pass.

Where i used to train karate the blackbelt could be earn only over 18. But then the sensei started giving it to kids up to 13 year old. Thats when i quited karate and swiched to kickboxing. Is very important to mantain some level to give the blackbelts

Great stuff!

I just got my shodan yesterday and i am so happy and it is a very special experience

I have a great respect for you you have the right karate spirit and resect the tradition, and great videos thanks

Thanks Jesse for great videos. I am the proud parent of 2 blackbelts, brother and sister, in the art of Ketsugen, under the teaching of Grandmaster Ken Riley, and they also had an opportunity to train in Tang So Do for a time. A 5 year journey so far and an awesome opportunity of learning and teaching, giving back. Keep up the good work of quality instruction. Armylane in AK.

I love the way you teaching👊👊👊

Wish I could go back to the start . The learning is wonderful .

I have to say, it was a very interesting watch! I didn't keep up my karate long enough to reach the black belt mark, but I've always been curious as to how that evaluation is performed. Thank you for sharing! I also want to say that your enthusiasm for karate along with your positive personality is just mesmerizing. Watching your videos is always time well spent; I always learn new things and I always end up feeling happier.

Love the way you teach kids

Thanks for the insights.

Thank you for this video! This looks awesome, I'd love to train with you!

It feels good to see how other dojos conduct their tests. In my dojo, for 1st degree the people who test have to do all the basic shotokan katas and one black belt kata. After that are some basics, and then we have to fight all black belts that show up to the test. Each fight lasts for about 3 minutes with a minutes rest inbetween. While we don't do joint locks and other techniques like in your dojo, the kumite (in my opinion) is a pretty big test of will as it's really easy for someone to get tired and give up, especially since the black belts don't go easy on the person testing!

I love the way you earn a black belt in your dojo sensei enkamp

I'm new to this channel, but I like your mentality behind what is emphasized on your black belt test. I am currently doing MMA, and am testing for my 2nd degree black belt. Testing takes place over 3 days, which includes a written test, taekwondo kicking techniques, MMA fighting patterns, stick/knife self defense (eskrima), Muay Thai, regular self defense techniques, MMA sparring, grappling, and 3 forms, one of which we have to make up on our own. After all of that, we perform a big show to celebrate the testers for all of the parents. Immediately after the show, the testers begin their conditioning part of their test, with up to 6 sets of push ups, sit ups, and burpees accompanied by a 5 mile run and wind sprints. Its brutal, but I'm looking forward to completing my test and watching more of your channel!

Its good to see a school that actually teaches how to defend yourselves and not just competition karate. Lots of folks teaching martial arts and having black belts that cant fight.

That was amazing! I've recently graduated into a black belt myself, and I saw allot in my own process of examination as per in this vídeo. Our dojo also advocates a far more marcial and raw style, in contrast with the more modern and standartised styles comon nowdays. Ground figthing, self defense, throws, blocks and locks, Combat with multiple assailors, some bearing knives, as well as the traditional kata, kata bunkai, Kion techiques, and more. Of course, we do not use staves or other weapons (even tho I've trained before with nunchakus), or break boards and bricks, but otherwise, a familiar concept! Great job! Love your vídeos, and they are an inspiration.

I really loved this video. It truly showed the diversity of karate. And i also loved that you had everything from kihon and Kata to selfdefence and a more realistic kumite. My style wadoryu needs to incorporate more of THE selfdefence part in their gradings to black belt, since we train it. Would be nice to train at your dojo someday. Keep Up the Good work😊👊

Your karate school reminds me of my karate school, we had a sense of tradition, but also learned some grappling to be aware of it and you seem like you are a pretty good professor to boot

awesome! I was doing some of these ground techniques in my ju jitsu class tonight!

This is an older video, and maybe you won't this comment...but WOW! This videos has inspired me a lot to comeback and train Karate, I left my dojo disheartened because the style taught felt incomplete, everything was about tournaments but not about growth, you could see black belts making the John Cena poses when they won a sparring match and feeling the were the great thing, and above all it got so expensive my mom couldn't afford, now as an adult I would love to travel to Europe to train at your dojo, the way you train looks so complete, and the love you have for the "Do" shows Jesse :)

I don’t do Karate but I do Taekwondo, getting a black belt at my school is easier but progressing past black belt is the real challenge. For the testing you must preform 8 choke self defenses, 8 forms, 20 minutes of stamina drills, 50 push ups, 50 sit-ups, and 500 jumping jacks, and break 3 boards stacked on top of one another. But first degree is pretty much the same except 5 random breaks in the span of 20 seconds, 14 self defenses, 1 form, 25 minutes of stamina. For second degree testing you must preform all 15 forms, 20 minutes of continuous jump rope, 1 hour of stamina, preform a breaking demonstration, preform 24 self defenses, and last but definitely not least, break a fucking brick. Like one from Home Depot so no bullshit.

In my shotokan school black belt candidates did shome kihon, atacking combinations, all the heian katas, jio, kankudai, bassaidai, onestep drills, self deffence techniques, jiuippon, some genneral sparring and some sport-based kumite

Nice share Jesse-san. Good to see good variety in the grading. I'm not near black belt level, as yet, but once I get there it will be a new path to travel......

👏👏👏bravo!! Beatiful grading 😊

Wonderful sensei. This reminds me of the first time I tested over 20 years ago. Domo arigato

Great vid! I train with an eskrima school where a lot of the instructors do have a japanese/korean martial arts background, but our ranking system eschews belts for simple number ranks. That being said, our equivalent of a black belt testing is pretty close! Forms testing from first rank to current, testing of application of forms, then our sparring which is a gauntlet; you go a multi round match against your seniors, but it's a fresh senior each round, ultimately becoming more a test of will than anything.

Really nicely done. Congratulation too all.

I love your method of allowing your students to perform grabs and takedowns in kumite cause that makes it very similar to any streetfight, I think it should be done in my dojo too

You are a good Teacher 👍

Wow, the Sanchin kata brought back some memories.. Ouch.. I can remember getting drilled in the stomach and legs so much I still feel it decades later. ;-) Great stuff though.. Where I trained minimum age for Black Belt testing was 18.. Great video..

Great video, a lot more school should do this. Keep up the good work.

Sensei Jesse, I admired you so much, i'm a venezuelan guy begining my dojo, i just got white belt childs, i inspired by your tips n advices, i'm so grateful for your work, becouse it helps me to be more professional.. thaaank's a loooot

Hi Jesse, thx for posting all your video's. In my dojo we do similar things you do, for obtaining a higher belt, you should spar for it. We start with punches and kicks and we continue on the floor if necessary . I teach my students several kicks (and flying wushu kicks) and punches, judo throws, Kyusho jitsu acu points to use in selfdefense, techniques from BJJ. For selfdefense we use a lot of hapkido and wing Chun techniques. The goal for the students is to focus on what they do. Thanks for posting all your video's. Grt. Alex VdM

Jesse , greetings from Brazil. First of all congrats on your Channel. Amazing! I used to pratice Taekwondo (i am now with some injuries that need surgery and are getting alway from the dojang), I am a 1st degree Black belt. It took 7 years to get there. Ar least at our dojang, the evaluation steps are pretty similar to yours. All poomsae (kata) from white to current belt, basic movrments (kibon donjak), self defense (hosinsul) techniques, fight (kyorugui) and always end up with one or more breaking (kyucpa) techniques.

Hi Jesse, I found the black belt exam method at your Dojo fascinating, and it got me quite eager to give it a try myself. Your school seems to have a rather complete approach to Budo and Karatedo, and from what I can see it tends more closely to Gojuu Ryu than Shotokan. As for me, I study the Chidokai branch of Shotokan with Nakajima Sensei, and our general approach to grading and exams is wildly different. First of all, exams consist of a weekend of training with demonstrations and lectures dotted throughout and a formal exam at the end of the Sunday. However, the formal exam only applies to 2nd Kyu studends and below. Starting at 1st Kyu, the exam itself serves more as a demonstration of one's dedication and diligence over time. Once a 1st Kyu student is deemed to have earned it, Sensei will promote them to Shodan candidate on the spot (this may take place during training, during a seminar, or at any point during an exam). As a candidate, the student will once more wear a white belt indefinitely until Sensei deems that they have earned their Shodan. This process is repeated for every Dan grade up to 6th or 7th I believe (Sensei is currently 8th Dan). The granting of Dan grades is somewhat less about techniques in our school as it is about overcoming one's personal failings and bad habits accumulated over years of practice. It's about self development and learning. I hope this has been interesting for you, if there's anything else you'd like to know I'm happy to discuss :)

Hey Jesse thanks for your Video and I love it that your Dojo runs in a family tradition! :) In our Dojo you also have to proove that you understand and know the techniques from all the Kyus. So we have a audit program that has the following points: - Kihon, for every Kyu we have Kihon techniques they have to learn and study with focus of a prniciple on every kyu. Starting with basic techniques to complex combinations. For the blackbelt examination we don't have a strict form, so the sensei that leads the examination constructs some combinations while the examination and the students have to adapt to this -Kata, we run the classic shotokan kata, so starting with Heian, tekki, bassai, kanku and specially for black belt its jion, hangetsu and empi. -And Kata bunkai of course -Yakusoku kumite, its ippon kumite, once done in streight kihon and then preformed in jiyu kihon, where we allow and demand more ashi sabaki -Goshin kumite, self defence techniques -Jiyu kumite, here we have starting from kyu to kyu different kumite principles that we want to see from our new black belts. Things like covering in fight, countering in different ways, throwing techniques from close and far distance, okuri and kaeshi techniques, things like that -Kobudo, here we also have the Bo staff as primary weapon, and we want also that a black belt would specialize for another kobudo weapon I think these are all parts of the black belt testing, in Oktober we will have an examination in our Dojo and will also upload some clips to our channel, maybe you want to have a look. We are the "Budokan Bensheim". I got one last question, what style of Karate do you practice, because sanshin is often used in goju ryu isent it? So best wishes to you, your mom and the rest of the dojo and of course congratulation to your new blackts

Nice video and well done to the two black belt candidates! I like your approach to kumite as well, sounds like fun! At my old GoJu dojo for shodan-ho we start with a warm-up which is a back breaking workout, then kihon ido. You would then do at least kata Sanchin, Tensho, Sanchin-Tensho, Seiyunchin; though if time allows you may start from a much earlier kata and work forward. Next is yakusoku kumite and bunkai kumite. Then we do kyogi kumite (15 original self defence techniques from Seiyunchin), free kumite and finally a written test. Whole thing typically goes 3-5 hours.

Love your teaching style. My black belt test was very similar 16 hours over two days. I had to start with a 2 mile run and 100 pushups before the test began. My passions is karate not how many belts I have earned. I thinks it always fun to join a new school and study a different style of martial arts and put the white belt on again. Because there is always something new to learn.

The dojo where I I practice is really hard to get a blackbelt, sensei Dilceu Rossoni is very severe, but thanks to this we learn a lot, he's a 68 year old man who holds a 5⁰ dan in wado-ryu karate and he's also black belt in BJJ and Sipalkido. What is cool because we sometimes exchange trainings and experience with students from these other martial arts.

At my place, we spend all summer doing"check offs" where you basically have to complete all forms and self defense etc with no mistakes. Then in August, on test day, you start with a 3 mile run followed by 2400 kicks( which take around an hour) then 100 push ups and 150 sit ups(no stopping) then you sparr everyone in the dojo for about five minutes . And you also perform all of your forms

Hello Jesse I always wonder if a person with many tattoos( visible with the gi on) take part in kumite or kata competition? I can't find the answer anywhere

Great video jesse but....What is bujikan ninjitsu is it one af the old Okinawan karate and why do we have different karate clothing's

It looks so easy - but in a good way! I remember, when I started studying, I was afraid of my bachelors thesis, but eventually, after several years of studying, it was a mere to do on my checklist once it came around the corner.

For my black belt we had to go through all the techniques from orange to black, including kata, grappling, 3 step fighting(self defense sets), escapes and something called the one thousand hour drill, the one thousand hour drill is done at the beginning of a test, it is doing basic techniques 1000 times fast, the purpose of this is to see how the students preform when they are stressed and tired. We also used to do sparring when my instructor was coming up but somebody got hurt and they ended it but we are going to start sparring in the tests this year.

I like his Dojo Training...very complete

What it takes in my dojo I'm student I took me over 2 months to get my mine I had to fight off 3 opponents at once and they had to be black belts it took me so long because I got hurt but hey I got it and in a week I take my second degree black belt test and I'm scared to see what I have to do to get it

Have you done a video explaining what separates a traditional dojo from others? I often hear that thrown around but don’t understand it. How is a sport karate dojo different from a traditional one? What do they do differently?

Ossu! I am a black belt and I will tell you the black belt part 1st we do standing basics punch stepping etc The. Ippon kumite Then kata what I had to do for a black belt is they do a kata for the whole unit we perform that then we do a basic kata teno kata etc then a heian kata then intermedite then favorite kata sometimes weapon kata then we end with sparring. Now I am a black belt that is 11 my name is joaquin I am probationary black belt so another year till I’m a actual one going by years I think my sensi has gone a little easier on us cause now people are getting black belts on 1st try I compete in tournaments. I am going to test for 2nd degree with shihan minikami akio

Please explain the fight aspect more indepth, i mean are they allowed to go all out? do KO's occur? you say they last for half an hour, but what is someone get's choked out within a minute. And lastly are there weightclasses? I'm very curious since i have never done any karate training, though i have done boxing for 3 years.

I like your grading method.

In my karate school to become a black belt actually for most belts it's a weekend of training. But for black belt and higher it's a full week with katas, kumite, kihon, phisic, running.... all this with maximum 2 hours of sleep per night! It's crazy but really good fun! And at the end you know that u deserve it!

In the Dojo I'm in, in order to become a black belt, there are pre-designated Kihon. I believe there's 14 different techniques that must be shown with not just technique, but strength (or the illusion of strength) and confidence (even if you aren't 100% confident). Then there is a Kata of the students choosing between Bassai Dai, Jion, Enpi and Kanku Dai. Depending on the Kata depends on how it must be performed. For example: Bassai Dai needs to be clean and strong. While Jion needs to show clean and crisp techniques over power, etc. After that is Jiyu Ippon Kumite (Semi-Freestyle Sparring) involving Jodan Oi Tsuki, Chuudan Oi Tsuki, Mae Geri, Mawashi Geri and Kekomi. I believe our Nidan does Ippon Kumite (Freestyle Sparring). I am actually preparing for my Shodan as I'm grading in September for it. Honestly the only reason I know what we do for a black belt. It's definitely not as hard as in Jesse's dojo, but considering you need a 3/5 on all 3 K's (Kihon, Kata and Kumite) at the very least (3 being what the bare minimum a Black Belt should be able to do), it's fairly difficult in it's own right.

i tend to forget that the Black Belt normally isn´t standardized

I'd love to practice in your dojo, man It looks awesome :D

Much the same in concept if not style. We test the body & mind together by (repetition), endurance test. Plus they must show knowledge of the key principle of the system verbal and written. This is along with seeing the progress of their daily training routines and things like misogi, in the form of cold water dousing. We test waza from 1sr belt up like you too. This covers striking, kicking, joint locks, chokes, throws and knowledge of the five weapon types. Love you video's keep up the great work. I forgot to mention breaking a 8 x 16 by 2 inch concrete slab from walking up and strike with no stop to measure as bad guys don't let you get set.

I'm currently a red belt in Taekwondo working towards my black belt in September. I'm really excited, because I want to get my instructor accreditation when I become a black belt to help teach in my dojang. The blackbelt grading in my Federation is a 3 day process of participation in an international instructors course culminating in an official 3 hr grading on the last day of the course

I have a yellow belt and can you tell me if at your karate dojo you get stripes to get to your next belt I’m just curious ✅

I’m going for my black bet in a couple of weeks and I’m so nervous and excited at the same time. In our grading we have to do our basics, kick combinations, reninguri (can’t spell these to great haha), special combination, brown belt kata, duel ippon, kumite and of you get through all that finish with a coloured bet kata. A lot of work but will be worth it ☺️✨

how do we call this type of karate?

i would love to come in your dojo. In only a training i could learn a lot of things. you are awesome!!

Very cool grading. Ours is very similar. I just received my black stripe, and that included doing all the beginning, intermediate and advanced katas I know. Then we had to spar, one on one and multiple person attackers. Of course board breaking with kicks, Elbows and fists. Then lastly one thing that I have never done before until this Dojo is a knowledge test. Not just about karate, but also about the body. Great video by the way.

I test for my Taekwondo black belt in August. I trained when I was younger from 1998-2002 with my brother and we got to one belt away from black. We ended up leaving due to life (school, work, marriage etc) After 16 years of being away from it and free from an abusive marriage, i started back to class May 2018. I am older now, have knee problems, don’t move as easily, and I’m very nervous, but I am determined to get my black belt. I have to write two essays, 1000 words each, perform all 33 one step self defense moves randomly, both right side and left, understand curriculum and be able to instruct classes and teach low ranks, perform all forms from White up to my current belt, perform board breaks, spar multiple competitors, take a written test, have a verbal test about the history of Taekwondo. I really enjoy your videos about traditional Karate and you and your family are an inspiration. My best to you!!