Resources

Forms and Documents

• UKTA Membership (license) form – complete and return to your instructor with the relevant fees.
• Derby School of Taekwon-Do Code of Practice

Gradings and Syllabus

There are six coloured belts in Taekwon-Do. In order, these are; White, Yellow, Green, Blue, Red and Black. In addition, there are intermediate stages between each belt. For example, when a white belt passes their first grading, they wear yellow tags on the end of the belt. Upon promotion at the next grading, a full yellow belt would be worn. This system continues up to Black Belt.

At Black Belt, the system is divided up into ‘Dans’ with the lowest being I Dan and the highest being IX Dan. The Derby School Instructor is currently a VI Dan International Instructor. The overall purpose of the colour belt and Dan grades is twofold. Firstly, it identifies the degree of skill and cultural education in Taekwon-Do that the individual has attained and secondly; it creates incentive whilst simultaneously preserving humility.

The required knowledge to grade to each of the coloured belt levels can be found below:

• 10th Kup (white belt)
• 9th Kup (yellow tag)
• 8th Kup (yellow belt)
• 7th Kup (green tag)
• 6th Kup (green belt)
• 5th Kup (blue tag)
• 4th Kup (blue belt)
• 3rd Kup (red tag)
• 2nd Kup (red belt)
• 1st Kup (black tag)