Oriental Martial Arts Council
Grading Standards
Ø The student will be observed during their period of tuition.
Ø The student’s progress, absorption and performance of technical skill and knowledge, will be used to assess the level of certification.
Ø Where a student’s expectation is not fully realised, an explanation will be given to the student, together with an action plan for the development of the required skill.
Please remember, that you will need to do a minimum of 2 days training
per subject to receive a grading at black belt level.
You could do an additional one-day course in preparation for a future grading in another chosen art.
On a one-day course you could possibly achieve up to second KYU Blue Belt but not Black Belt rank.
All courses are covered by our Martial Art Qualification certification.
This qualification will enable you to start instructing on attaining your 1st Dan / Degree and will enable you to acquire professional indemnity insurance, which is essential before forming a club.
If you are experienced and participate in a Martial Art
and you have produced a VIDEO / DVD evidence of your Martial Arts skills
to be assessed as part of our DISTANCE LEARNING PACKAGE,
we will assist and guide you in every way so you can achieve your personal achievement.
Our final word on Fast Track is to assure anyone who wants to attain a recognised grade, that we give our utmost personal attention to detail and to the unique needs of each individual student.
We have found that many of our students are experienced Martial Artists and have been training unrecognised for years by the enforced Western grading system.
We remind you that you can return within the year for further gradings.
As an example of the present chaotic state of rank awards we re-iterate a reply to a student who had been training in martial arts for many years, but could not find the support and self confidence to make the step towards becoming a professional martial arts coach and actually making a living at something that they loved doing.
Read the following reply to a Tai Chi Student and apply it to your present grading situation.
When the student in question asked his Sifu
if he could do a teacher training course, was told, “You will have to train for many years yet to consider that position".
That student is now a professional coach making a good living, enjoying life after training and qualifying after a Fast Track course.
Hi - - - - thanks for your email.
Yes, I can teach you to become a Tai Chi Instructor, with a fast track course, providing that you have some experience and aptitude, as it appears that you do.
There is no Chinese ruling about how long one should train before becoming an instructor.
I can tell you that there are several self-appointed “ governing bodies” but there is no official governing body or set rules about Tai Chi training.
To set rules and to enforce extended training periods is totally unreasonable.
No one has the right to say how long it takes to become an Instructor.
Who has the right to set these extended training periods? Extended training periods are in my humble opinion a get rich, money-making system with extensive on-going costs.
To set rules, conditions and extended training periods is against the whole principal of Tai Chi.
Tai Chi is fundamentally a complete system of freedom of thought, action, mind and deed.
The recently accepted symbol of Tai Chi i.e. the Yin / Yang symbol, proposed that all things interact equally and opposite with each other and that everything is possible,
as long as everything is in balance.
However, from the Zen point of view to make distinction between this and that,
black and white, up and down, forward and back,
or any other word that you can think of that has an opposite,
is to already sub-divide the senses.
In Zen, we propose the centre path of no choice, i.e. the middle way, in Tai Chi or any Martial Art all things are possible and it would be totally against the principals of Tai Chi to set rules.
One has to realise the fundamental thinking behind the concept of Tai Chi.
We teach nothing but Tai Chi, to music, totally avoiding all other distractions and diversities.
I suggest that you find someone, who can “cut” (if you’ll pardon the words) “ the crap”
that goes with some Tai Chi tuition.
in Tai Chi and all Martial Arts, all things are possible, in all possible worlds.
Take no-ones word (not even mine) about the rules, regulations and constrictions of Tai Chi.
There are none, otherwise it would not be Tai Chi, it would be an enforced, regimented system.
You are a leaf floating in the stream of life,
you have the right to follow the stream down any rivulet that the stream takes you.
Tai Chi should impose no rules, Tai Chi just is.
At Oriental Martial Arts we have one rule, Think big.
In other words, "Break out of the classical mess", as Bruce Lee once said).
Follow your heart, to that life long dream of actually making a living out of something
that you love doing, be it Tai Chi, Swordsmanship, Karate, Muay Thai etc.
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