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Green to Blue............................

Blue to Purple...........................

Purple to Brown.......................

Brown to High Brown...........

High Brown to Black.............

All Strikes

All Self-Defense

Bo & Jo Kata

Tonfa & Sai Kata

Nunchaku and

Advanced Bo Kata

WEAPONS

H O N O R T H R O U G H T H E M A R T I A L A R T S

A martial art student
must first be
competent with
using his hands & feet
before he uses
an extension of such – weapons.

• Bo (a 6-foot staff

• Jo (a 4-foot staff)

• Tonfa

• Sai

• Nunchaku

At green belt, students at Red Sun begin to learn

the following 5 weapons:

At first, the student learns the strikes with each weapon.
Further on in his training, the student then learns self-defense.
Then finally, he learns kata with each of the 5 weapons.

An advanced student is able to spar with weapons.

With years of training, each weapon feels natural in his hands
and he feels proficient in defending himself with weapons.
A true black belt in weapons is no more awkward
with any weapon than with his own hands.

Bear in mind, when the student is first introduced to weapons,
he is really a white belt as far as weapons is concerned.
A black belt karate student isn't necessarily a black belt in weapons.

• Strikes

• Self-Defense

• Kata

• Sparring

Students learn weapons in the following order: