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Originally Posted by tattooedmonk View Post
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This list also shows forms that were taught @ 3rd and 2nd that are now requirements for 1st. I have an understanding that it was changed to allow for additional material to be added, but ,when do you think this changed?
Not sure what you are refering to, could you be a bit more specific?
I think the black belt level curriculum is a bit different in the west than it is in the east. At least from the websites I've seen,
On the document, it shows all four spears as first black material. In the west, while we learned all four at first black, only Chiang Su Lian Si and Lo Chia Chiang were on the test to 2nd. The other two aren't tested until 3rd-4th. The double broadsword and tiger hooks are listed as 3rd to 4th, in the west they are on the
1st to 2nd test. Just a little switch around.
Also, tai chi sword is listed on 2nd to 3rd, in the west it wasn't tested until
5th to 6th. We had skewer the sun sword on the test from 2nd to 3rd, which isn't on the document at all.
Obviously, this was a relatively early document. Since a lot of material has been added to the curriculum since then I'm not surprised that the order changed around some. Also, I know that the testing order in the east is different than that in the west, and the east has some forms that the west doesn't.
Even at brown belt levels, things are done differently in the east and west. In the east, I believe there's a set order for learning and testing over the forms at each brown belt level, like in the document. In the west, all fifteen forms are taught on a rotating scheduling over the course of a year, and each test you perform the ones you have learned so far, until your black belt test where you know/perform all of them. So a new third brown might learn Guan kung dao first, if he advanced in august. Someone who started brown belt in november would learn lian wu chang first.
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