Levels of Women’s Self Defense

Level One

To earn a Traditions Women’s Self Defense Level One Certificate, the student must, in addition to good attendance for one session, show basic knowledge of the following:

Awareness	Weapons	Releases	Points of Attack
Increased awareness	Fist	Single straight wrist grab	Solar Plexus
Threatening situations	Foot	Cross straight wrist grab	Knees
Likely attackers	Palm	Double wrist grab	Instep
	Chop		Nose
	Back of head		Groin
	Elbow
	Knee

Level Two

To earn a Traditions Women’s Self Defense Level Two Certificate, the student must, in addition to good attendance for one session, show basic knowledge of the following:

From Previous Levels	One Steps	Releases	Form(s)
Awareness	White One	All level one releases	Kicho Il Bu
Situations	White Two	One handed lapel releases
Attackers		Two Handed lapel releases
All level One techniques		Bear hug

Level Three

To earn a Traditions Women’s Self Defense Level Three Certificate, the student must, in addition to good attendance for one session, show basic knowledge of the following:

From Previous Levels	One Steps	Releases	Form(s)
Awareness	White one	All level one & two releases	Kicho Il Bu
Situations	White two	Arm bar releases
Attackers	White three	Head lock
All level one & two techniques	White four	Shoulder grab

Level Four

To earn a White Crane Women’s Self Defense Level Four Certificate, in addition to good attendance for one session, show proficiency of the following:

From Previous Levels	One Steps	Releases	Form(s)
Awareness	White one	All level one, two & three releases	Kicho Il Bu
Situations	White two	Choke hold	Kicho Ee Bu
Attackers	White three	Hair grab
All level one, two & three techniques	White four	Floor techniques

Level Five

To earn a White Crane Women’s Self Defense a Tang Soo Do yellow belt (9th gup), the student must, in addition to good attendance for one session, show proficiency during testing of the following:

From Previous Levels	One Steps	Releases	Form(s)
Awareness	White one	All level one through four releases	Kicho Il Bu
Situations	White two		Kicho Ee Bu
Attackers	White three
All level one through four techniques	White four
	White five