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How To Be Ready For Your Mini Kids Grading

8/8/2019

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Here are some tips for parents and kids that will be especially useful for those preparing for their first ever Mini Kids Grading!

At Warrior Taekwon-Do we hold three Mini Kids gradings each year. Your very first Mini Kids Grading will be from white belt (no stripes) to First Green (a green stripe on one side of your white belt).

You have two books to help prepare for your grading. The Mini Kids Handbook (pictured above) has all the techniques and theory you will be tested on are in the White to First Green page in your Mini Kids Handbook and the homework page that needs to be signed off off by your instructor in advance of the grading. You will learn all the techniques in class.

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Your TKD Skills Book for Mini Kids (pictured left) contains the skills and standards related to each technique that the examiners are looking for at each level.

Use the book when you practice and to monitor your own progress. The "Sometimes", "Mostly" and "Always" boxes are for you to use so you can track how you are progressing.

Your instructor will give you feedback through the term on where you are doing well and where to improve.

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Homework and Theory
In the lead up to a grading you will need to do the following:
  • Complete the home sheet in your Mini Kids Handbook (the white A4 book) for the rank you are grading for
  • Take your completed home sheet to class to show your instructor - your instructor can't approve you to grade unless they've seen your completed homework
  • Learn the theory in your book to be able to answer oral questions at the grading
  • Have your own uniform
  • Ask your instructor any questions you might have
  • Keep practicing at home

Pre-Grading Period
The two-three weeks before a grading are known as the pre-grading period. During that time instructors are assessing to see whether your are ready to grade and will give important feedback to you on what to improve. Factors taken into consideration in deciding whether to put a student forward for grading include attendance and behaviour in class over the whole term, as well as your Taekwon-Do techniques.

If you are not approved to grade, don't be disheartened. It is not a race to get through the stripes and it is important to be comfortable with your current level before progressing to the next. W
e always encourage our members to use the Taekwon-Do tenet of perseverance - keep at it and you will achieve your goals. 

Completing Registration
If you're approved to grade you will receive a slip with a link to the online grading registration form. You will then need to:
  • Complete the online grading registration form
  • Pay the invoice by the deadline
  • Diary the date and time of the grading
  • Keep working hard toward the grading​

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 At The Grading
The grading is a formal event, with the dojang setup with an examination table and marshals at the front who help you find your place on the mats and demonstrate the techniques you will be asked. The examiners are almost always senior black belts from our club, and they will call the kids up in groups and ask them to go through their techniques and answer some oral theory questions. They will be asking the grading applicants what they know - they won't be trying to "catch you out".

At the end of the grading the kids are presented with their grading certificates and stripes representing their new rank and we have a group photo.

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Click here to view a video of all the techniques required at white belt to first green and some clips from a Warrior grading

Remember that gradings are just one part of Taekwon-Do. We encourage you to get involved in other events that will help you to grow and develop in Taekwon-Do and as a person throughout the year besides gradings including pee wee tournaments, club events, special training and kids camps.

Important Dates for December 2019 Grading

Start of Pre-grading: Monday 18 November
Cut-off for forms and payment to be received by office: Friday 29 November
Grading day: Thursday 5 December, 4pm, at 198 Marua Rd, Ellerslie
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About Kubz Gradings

7/8/2019

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Our next Kubz grading is on
 
Thursday 28 November 2019
4:15pm
198 Marua Rd
  
This will be a COMBINED grading of both of our Kubz classes. So students that normally come to a Monday 4.30pm class will come to the Thursday time instead of the grading.
 
How the grading process works
There is an approval process to see if students are ready to grade in the 2 weeks prior to grading week. This is called the pre-grading period.
 
During that time instructors are assessing to see whether you are ready to grade. Attendance and behaviour in class since their past grading (or since joining) are considered as part of the approval process.

Completing Registration
If your child is approved to grade you will receive a slip with a link to the online grading registration form. You will then need to:
  • Complete the online grading registration form
  • Pay the invoice by the deadline
  • Diary the date and time of the grading

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No late entries
If you miss the deadline, you miss the deadline. We have to specially order in grading packs and grading badges for Kubz, so no late entries are possible.
 
At the grading
Gradings are run very similar to a normal class. They aren’t formal and scary – actually they are a lot of fun! At the end the kids are presented with certificates, badges to go on the sleeves on their uniform and receive a new stripe on their belt.

Important Dates for November 2019 Grading:


Start of Pre-grading: Monday 11 November
Cut-off for forms and payment to be received by office: Friday 22 November
Grading day: Thursday 28 November, 4:15pm, at 198 Marua Rd, Ellerslie

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