I am going to post my curricullum would like some feedback either negative or positive
to get a Yellow belt:
Cycle of destruction
All the meridians in the right cycle for destruction
All abreviations for the meridians
All Kicks (these for me are front, side, oblique or seisan, round regular and muay thai, and knees)
All hand strikes
start of speed hitting
start of sticky hands
stick/knife (rolling and abiniquo)
stand up locks (center lock, outside wrist turn, arm bars, finger locks)
ground arm bars and chokes
standing chokes
single and double leg take down
major and minor reaps
and naifanchi shodan
Orange belt:
Diurnal cycle
cycle of creation
start of healing
stomache line
gall bladder line
spleen line
Large intestin line
Lung line
neck breaks
body locking
firemans throw
over the shoulder throws
hip throws
leg bars
ankle locks
single sinawali
knife angles
Jo angles
Kata Seisan, Seiuchin
Aiki Walk
Blue belt: Healing level two
Neck Break throws
locks for riop tears and breaks
using weapons of opportunity
Sticky hands incorporating the legs
knife and stick advanced angles and start of combinations
Jo Locks
randori grappling and throwing
Kata tomari Passai, and Wansu
Jo Kata
Since You asked for feed back.
Generally I think you have put in things in some areas to soon. For instance in
Yellow you have Stick and knife techniques as well as chokes both standing and ground chokes. Yellow is a begining belt so I woould instead concentrate on the striking aspect on your art (leaving out the locks and controls and weapons) since that takes the least skill. This way if the person leaves they have a grounding in something they can use (possibly if needed)
Maybe in Orange rank move the throws and group them with any off balancing TDs. Here you could tie together the striking range with moving in for the double leg TDs, or the reaps. But I would leave off the
neck breaks till a later rank when the student is more mature in the art. This is important for their safety as well as other students safety.
In Blue rank I would start with the ground work and locks now that the students can hit and kick and move in and TD the person then ground fight them. At this level the neck break throws might be OK but I would give the students plenty of falling time, prior to teaching this and making it a part of a test.
What is the purpose of having the sinawali and rolling actions with the knife and stick? Are you planning on teaching these weapons in depth along with the Jo. If so I would hold off on the knife again till brown belt rank or black, unless you are showing empty hand defense against the knife or using it for self defense type material. But what it looks like is that you want the guys to do knife fighting/dueling and that is a whole different subject. Which I believe takes much more time that what you are giving it in your curriculum. Same really for the stick sparring issue.
I think your strong point is the striking, grappling and locking aspect of your system, combined with the knowledge you are giving the student on the meridians, healing etc. etc. I believe your students will have plenty to work on without blending in the FMA aspect I think you are inserting. You coould use some of what you know of the FMA to tie in with your curriculums principles and techniques but I don't know if I would make them part of the curriculum for testing purposes.
If you were teaching a FMA based curriculum then having the stick work in Yellow is fine but it appears to me to be more of a karate based program with the FMA blended in.
Thanks for posting it.
