Brown belt
Brown belt grade in Budo Ninjutsu (1st kyu) concentrates the martial and physical requirments in the Akban martial arts school in Israel. These requirements form the guidelines of each test and are to be added to, but not substracted from by the testers.
The tests in Akban form an important point in the maturation process of the martial arts trainees in Akban. The brown belt test should be examined both by the instructor and the AKBAN hub.
Fitness
Endurance
- Five minutes randori performed after 10km. run.
Strength
Flexibility
- Split legs, head 40 cm from the mattress
- Soles of feet together, head 35 cm from the feet
Sabaki - movement
Kaiten - rolls and Ukemi - falls
- Tobikomi kaiten - Jumping front roll, above a kneeling person
- Mae tobi kaiten - From standing position, jump backwards and roll
- Oten - cartwheel on one hand
- Shoten - climbing, leaping and rolling
Sabaki - evasion
- Happo tenchi tobi - 10 directions jumping sabaki
- At least 10 hours (accumulated) of outside running
Daken - strikes
Geri - kicks
- Kinteki sokushi geri, groin kick
- Ono geri - axe kick to head
- Tobi ushiro sokugyaku geri
- Mae tobi sokugyaku geri
- Tobi geri taihen, jump and kick with both legs
Keri kaishi - leg blocks
- Muko zune geri, shin hits back of thigh
- Muko zune geri, shin hits back of thigh, 5th tai sabaki
- Yoko take ori, block with sole the opponent's shin
- Sukugyaku geri, against spining kick, to the opponent's hip
Blocks
- All the blocks of the previous grades
Nage waza, throws
All must end with submission, control or a decisive daken.
No gi throws
- Ura nage, ushiro - suplex
- Ura nage
- Kani basami
- Obi tori gaeshi
Nage waza, Gi throws
Katame waza - grappling techniques
Kansetsu-waza (関節技): joint locks
- Oyayubi kudaki, break thumb
- Chiisai kudaki, break little finger
- Yubi kudaki, break fingers
- All the arm locks kata of brown belt
Hodoki – holds and releases
Ne-waza: ground techniques
Osaekomi-waza (押込技): pins or holds
- Juji gatame, from two positions
- Ude garame, from two positions
- Umapalate
- Oni kudaki, from two positions
Hitting
- Ken, to all levels, from all grabs
- Empi, to all levels, from all grabs
- Hiza, knee, from Yoko shiho gatame, from Kami shiho gatame
- Kikaku ken, from all positions except Kami shiho gatame
- Shi ken, bitting
- Kyushu, pressure points
Kata
Kansetsu-waza (関節技): joint locks
Gyokko Ryu
Koto Ryu
Kukishinden Ryu
Togakure Ryu
Takagi Yoshin Ryu
Fudo Ryu
Buki, Weapons and Mutto dori, Empty hand against weapons
Tento, Knife
- Three kata from the black book
Hanbo, Short stick
Tachi - sword
- 3 Obi AKBAN kata, from belt
- 2 Kutsu AKBAN kata, from shoe
- Kage no itto, AKBAN
- Kusa nagi no ken, Katori
Mutto dori, Empty hand against weapons
Randori
- Kansetsu waza randori
- Tsubute sabaki, evading thrown knives
- Nage waza randori, resisting throws
- No gi full contact randori
Okugi shetah for brown belts - Outside
- To be prescribed by instructor.
Seishin teki kyo yo
- 20 minutes zazen
General requirements
- Zan shin - during randori.
Bibliography
- Art of war, Son Tsu
- The methodical pyramid, AKBAN
Okuden
- Mondo
- First, second and third timings
