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No payment, no email address, no account. Ten color belt ranks with the Korean terms and their English translations, the minimum time in grade for each, and separate notes where youth requirements differ. Print it, punch it, keep it in your training bag.

What's Inside

All ten ranks, 10th Gup through 1st Gup, on a few pages. For each rank: the basics introduced, the hyung, the one-step and self-defense sets, and the breaking requirement. Korean terminology throughout with plain English alongside, so it is usable whether or not the vocabulary is familiar.

The requirements are cumulative — every rank assumes everything below it — and the guide is laid out so you can see that build happen across thirty months of minimum time in grade.

Who it's for

Tang Soo Do and Soo Bahk Do students who want their requirements written down in one place.
Karate and Taekwondo practitioners curious how a related Korean system sequences its material. Much of it will look familiar; the order and the emphasis will not.
Solo and independent trainers who can already move but have no syllabus telling them what to work on next.
Returning students rebuilding after years away, who need to see the whole map again.
Instructors comparing their own curriculum against a documented traditional standard.


Who put this together

Brian Corrales, Sa Bom Nim — 6th Dan in Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan (Dan #36364), a certified Sa Bom, and an appointed member of the US Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation's Technical Advisory Committee. Teaching in Salt Lake City since 2007.

This is the curriculum as it is actually taught and tested, maintained against the World Moo Duk Kwan Technical Advisory Committee's official standard — not a version assembled from the internet.


A list is not instruction.

A curriculum tells you what to work on. It cannot tell you whether your side kick is chambering correctly or whether your low block arrives with the hips or after them.Digital Dojang teaches this same curriculum rank by rank in filmed lessons, with optional video evaluation for rank certified through the World Moo Duk Kwan. See the courses at dojang.org, or read how certification works.