Second Level: Orange Belt Dynamics
Building on Your Foundation:
- Dynamic combinations - Link Yellow Belt techniques into flowing sequences
- Tactical positioning - Understanding angles, distance, and timing
- Enhanced mobility - More complex movement patterns and footwork
- Integration focus - Connect strikes, throws, and evasions smoothly
Now that you've mastered Yellow Belt fundamentals, Orange Belt introduces dynamic flow. Instead of isolated techniques, you'll learn to chain movements together naturally and respond to changing situations.
This level marks a crucial transition—from learning individual tools to understanding how they work together. Your Yellow Belt techniques become building blocks for more sophisticated responses. Focus on smooth transitions rather than perfect individual movements.
Training emphasis: Watch how each technique can flow into the next. The goal isn't just to know more techniques, but to move with increasing fluidity and tactical awareness.
Contents
- 1 Fitness
- 2 Kamae 構, combat stances
- 3 Daken 打拳体術, striking and punching
- 4 Geri, Kicks 蹴, Using the legs to strike
- 5 Kansetsu-waza 関節技, joint locks
- 6 Sabaki 捌, Movement and evasion
- 7 Kaiten 廻転, Ukemi 受身, rolls and breakfalls
- 8 Chokes, 絞技, Shime waza
- 9 Nage waza 投げ技, throws
- 10 Weapons
- 11 Osaekomi-waza 押込技, pins or holds
- 12 kata 型, forms - Ninjutsu second level
- 13 Seishin-Teki-Kyo‘yo‘
- 14 Knowledge
Kamae 構, combat stances
- Hicho no kamae, bird stance - Ninjutsu
- Doko ichimonji no kamae, angry tiger stance - Ninjutsu
- Ichimonji no kamae
- Hoko no kamae, Bear stance - Ninjutsu
Daken 打拳体術, striking and punching
- Kikaku ken, headbutt
- Tsuppari, open hand punch - Ninjutsu
- Elbow strikes, hiji, enpi, 肘 - Ninjutsu
- Ura shuto, Reverse blade of hand strike - Ninjutsu
- Omote shuto, outer blade of hand strike
- Hook punching drill with focus mitts
- Uppercut
- Tsuki, back punch with a step
- Back punch, Cross
- Front punch, jab
Geri, Kicks 蹴, Using the legs to strike
- Mawashi geri, roundhouse kick
- Mikazuki geri - slap kick
- Sokugyaku geri - heel kick
- Blocking a low kick
- Mae geri - Front kick with ball of foot
- Ushiro geri, back kick
Kansetsu-waza 関節技, joint locks
- Yubi kudaki
- Hon gyaku jime, wrist torsion break - Ninjutsu
- Omote gyaku, outer wrist lock - Ninjutsu
- Ura gyaku, inner wrist lock - Ninjutsu
- Te hodoki, hand release - Ninjutsu
- Muso dori, elbow break
Sabaki 捌, Movement and evasion
- Tai sabaki - Movement and evasion in eight directions
- Get up from lying on your belly to crouching stance
- Yoko Aruki
Kaiten 廻転, Ukemi 受身, rolls and breakfalls
- Zenpo kaiten - rolling forward
- Koho kaiten - rolling backward
- Gyaku nagare - rolling from ichi mon ji no kamae
- Sokuho kaiten - rolling to the side
- Zenpo ukemi - forward break fall
- Ushiro ukemi - rear break fall
- Forward break fall, Mae ukemi - Ninjutsu
Chokes, 絞技, Shime waza
- Tsupari
- Tsukomi Jime - front flap choke with knuckles on trachea
Nage waza 投げ技, throws
Weapons
Hanbo 半棒, short stick
- Two hands right diagonal strike
- Right diagonal one hand strike
- Left diagonal one hand strike
- Tsuke iri
- Tsuki do furi
Tanto 短刀, knife
Kusari 鎖, chain
Osaekomi-waza 押込技, pins or holds
- Omoplata - Leg shoulder lock
- Flower sweep
- Umpa escape - from mount
- Elbow escape - from mount
- Shrimp and regurad escape - from side control
- Knee pass
- Opening the guard - by sitting back
kata 型, forms - Ninjutsu second level
- Ken nagare - Takagi
- Seion kata, Shoden Gata level, Kukishin Ryu
- Kata Nami no kata, Chuden Gata level, Kukishin Ryu
- Hisaku, Chuden gata level - Koto ryu
- Hicho, Chuden gata level - Koto ryu
- Jumonji no kamae, cross fighting stance,- Ninjutsu
Seishin-Teki-Kyo‘yo‘
- Zazen meditation for 1 minute
- Zanshin attention and respect to opponent
- Decisiveness in technical performance
Knowledge
- Knowledge in writings. Attention: the conclusions are not mandatory.
- Ninjutsu reader – part A, The Methodical Pyramid