Advanced Purple Belt Study Guide & Test

The upper body losing or creating distance from your opponent without losing ground with your feet.

Stomp: has no supporting leg.

Stomp Kick: has a supporting leg.

The circle in the square principle. The Practitioner should understand the corners of the square are the furthest points from the circle. The circle represents the maximum range of the opponent

Neutral Bow Stance Dropped with NO Angle Changed. The maximum is one hand span from your knee to the ground.

Changing sides facing your opponent without losing or gaining distance.  4 types : Back to Front, Front to Back, vertical and horizontal Hop Switch

Food for thought; previews of coming attractions. Things that are there or things that are not there and if they’re not there where are they.

Having a bent knee when kicking gives you stability and Marriage of Gravity if you’re kicking on the vertical plane.

To check with your leg you need to feel the opponents leg with your leg. Buckling requires you to bend your leg even further to break their base.

Short 2 shows us this. When you’re moving into danger keep a positional check in place against possible attack.

Stay on the circle, Reverse the circle, Cut the circle in half.  This gives us the ability to be Circular (soft styles) or Linear (hard styles).

Your opponent is generally in medium range so you need to shuffle in for a short range elbow and it gives you a power principle. If you’re getting Borrowed Reach or pulling him in then you’re ok to stay where you are.

Control, Disarm, then Technique. Never try anything until the weapon is neutralized. They won’t stop trying to hit, cut, or shoot you until they’re disarmed.