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From | To | Requirements |
| White Belt (4 months) | 9th Kyu (Yellow Belt) | Basic Blocks, punches, Horse Stance, Forward Stance, Front Kick, basic sweep, Kata Tai Kyo Ku Shodan, |
| Yellow Belt -9th Kyu ( 4 months ) | 8th Kyu (Orange Belt) | All the above, plus Back stance, moving inner fore arm blocks in back stance, Side Kick, Back fist, Open hand strikes, Kata Tai Kyo Ku Sandan |
| Orange Belt -8th Kyu (4 months) | 7th Kyu (Green Belt) | All the above, plus Cat Stance, Knife Hand Blocks, Turning Kick, Turning slap, Kata Heian Shodan. |
| Green Belt -7th Kyu ( 4 months ) | 6th Kyu (Blue Belt) | All the above, plus Back kick backwards, finger thrust, knuckle thrust, palm heel strikes, Kata Heian Nidan |
| Blue Belt -6th Kyu (5 months) | 5th Kyu (Purple Belt) | All the above, plus Hook Kick, Inner & Outer Crescent Kicks, Front back kick, Kata Heian Sandan, Bunkai of katas. |
| Purple Belt -5th Kyu (5 months) | 4th Kyu (Brown Belt-IV) | All the above, plus Spinning Kick, Combination Kicks , Kata Heian Yonndan |
| Brown IV -4th Kyu(6 months) | 3rd Kyu (Brown Belt III) | All the above, plus Scissor jump kick, Kata Heian Godan, Nanchaku swings & movements |
| Brown III - 3rd Kyu ( 6 months) | 2nd Kyu (Brown Belt II) | All the above, plus Flying kick, Kata Tekki Shodan & Basai Dai |
| Brown II - 2nd Kyu (8 months) | 1st Kyu(Brown Belt I) | All the above, plus Kata Tekki Nidan & Kanku Dai, Nanchaku Kata |
| Brown I - 1st Kyu (8 months) | Shodan | All the above, plus Kata Tekki Sandan & Jion |
| Shodan (2 years) | Nidan | All the above, plus Kata Basai Sho & Kanku Sho + Single Sword Kata |
| Nidan ( 3 years) | Sandan | All the above, plus Kata Empi & Hangetsu + Stick Kata |
| Sandan ( 4 years) | Yondan | All the above, plus Kata Jitte , Jiin & Sochin + Double Sword Kata |
| Yondan ( 5 years) | Godan | All the above plus Kata Unsu , Gankaku, Goju Shiho Dai + Butterfly Sword Kata |
Changes: The change in belt order is indicated in red colour. Higher katas are made compulsory for brown belt and black belts so that Budokan members can exhibit high standard in international kata competitions. Weapon katas are made compulsory to black belts so that the Orinetal Weapon katas of Budokan are introduced to all Budokan members. Sparring : Free Sparring requirements are for promotion from 5th Kyu to 4th Kyu onwards. All basic movements and katas must be performed with precision and power. To be able to perform only the movements of the katas correctly, without the required standard and power, is not sufficient for promotion. In addition to his physical ability the character of the member and his behavior to other instructors and members are also taken into consideration. Period of Time : A minimum of 4 months training is expected of a member between each promotion from the White Belt stage to the 6th Kyu, after which a five & Six monthly interval is required before he is tested for the Second Kyu. A minimum training period of Eight months is necessary from the 1st Kyu to the Black Belt Shodan. Two years of training is required from Shodan to Nidan, three years from Nidan to Sandan and four years from Sandan to Yondan, unless the member shows exceptional ability and power in his performance for promotion to the rank of a Godan a member must have at least Twenty years training in Karate Budokan International.
Oralia Rego, a student of St Aloysius Pre-University College here, has bagged gold medal for her outstanding Karate skills in Black Belt Kumite event in the 16 to 17 years category, in the Karate Budokan international tournament, held at Thoppil indoor stadium, in Thrissur district of Kerala, recently. Oralia also won a bronze in girls individual as well as the team Kata, under black belt girl's category. She is a student of Karate instructor Padmanabha. Multi-talented Oralia, daughter of Joseph and Queenie Rego, was also a finalist in the face-off round of Airtel's Verbattle Senior debate competition, the biggest English debate tournament, conducted during August this year, at R V Dental College, Bangalore. Both Oralia and Delroy Pereira represented St Aloysius Pre-university College as a team and won a cash prize of Rs 10,000 as the runners-up.
Grandmaster Mr. Richard Chew and Shihan Wayne MacDonald have personally
appointed and given ranks to the National, Zonal and State examiners of India
looking at their services, support, loyalty and performance towards K.B.I.
India,
Chief Instructor, Examiner and Administrator of Karate
Budokan International, Asia:
Mr. B Parmesh – 6th Dan
Contact details:
Flat # 410 Sree Sai Kesava Towers
near NAC 2nd gate Kondapur,
RR
dist Hyderabad 500032
Mobile: +919346297151
Fax: 91 40
23759162
Email:
kbikarate@yahoo.co.in
NATIONAL CHIEF INSTRUCTORS AND EXAMINERS OF K.B.I.
India
Name Dan Number
Vasant Shetty 5th 1565
Rajendra P Bhosle 5th 1564
M.V. Kuppan 5th 1531
S. Vijaya Kumar 5th 1528
M. Kannan 5th 1540
Sridharan P. 5th 1577
O.M. Yunus 5th 1526
Sanjay M. Athavale 3rd 1562
F. Xavier Xavid 5th 1570
Anil P. Marathe 5th 1639
S.V.S. Murugesh 5th 2009
ZONAL CHIEF INSTRUCTORS AND EXAMINERS OF K.B.I.
India
C. Jayaraman 5th 1628
Kashinath R. Nayak 5th 1532
Dilawar Shaik P. 5th
B. Padmanabha 5th 1052
Sivadas Korott P 5th 2057
D. Rama Rao 5th 1575
Abdul Rashid S. Patel 4th 1674
V. Pitchaiah P. 5th 2010
Mohd. Jahangir .5th 2049
Rajeshwari Chowhan 5rd 3071
Manotoshkar 4th 1704
Raghupathi .5th 2056
Avinash Shinde 4th 1653
R.S. Bhaskaran 4th 1516
THE HISTORY OF KARATE - DOIt appears that an Indian monk namely Bodhidharma founded the early karate in the shaolin temple at Hunin at northern China in 520 A. D. Originally from India, this man travelled from India to the shaolin monks of China to teach Zen Meditation.Ubfortunately this form of teahing was found physically unfit. Hence he created a new style called "Shih-pa-lo-han-sho." or THe eighteen hands of LoHan. It was repted as the early Kung Fu of China.In the same place was born Master Chew Choo Soot on 7th of February 1922.He became the Malaysian national weightlifting champion in 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942. He was introduced to the art of “Karate-Do” at the age of twenty during the Japanese occupation of Malaysia.Mr Chew made it on to the cover of a local publication and was contracted by a Japanese military officer to be his personal fitness coach. During one of the scheduled visits the young Mr Chew discovered the officer practicing movements, which we now know to be Kata, the styles practiced by the officer were Keishinkan and Shotokan. Mr chew was impressed and asked for tuition, the officer agreed. The founders of Karate Budokan International were Mr Chew, his sons Tony and Richard and daughter Angie, they studied a number of martial arts including chinese Kung fu, TaeKwonDo, and several styles of Karate-do including Shito-ryu, Shotokan and Keishinkan. Keishinkan is a minor style of the Shuri-te strain & is not widely known even in its country of birth. It comes from the line of Toyoma Sensei and the excellent qualities of its instructors are well known in Australia, Malaysia & elsewhere. With the parting of Keishinkan in 1971 there has been no over riding influences on our style. There was a trend in the mid 1980’s in our Kata development towards the Shotokan style. It must be understood that Karate is an ever-evolving art & KBI is no different in this respect. So from these humble beginnings in a neighbourhood Malaysian Dojo K B I was formed.Sadly Mr Chew passed away on July 18th, 1997.
Our Grandmaster now is his son and heir Sensei Richard Chew and Shihan Wayne MacDonald is the International Chief instructor.
INDIA
India can rightly claim to have the largest K.B.I. membership in the world. More than 300,000 had received their training from more than 600 K.B.I. authorised instructors and assistant instructors in India it is, therefore, an undisputed fact that the Karate Budokan International is the largest and most active karate organisation in India and possibly in the World.
Just like any other large organisations in the world there are bound to be a few “rotten apples” in the barrel. A handful of instructors were misusing their position to cheat the members and public by issuing their own Black belt and Kyu-grade certificates, which were not worth the paper on which they were printed. Incidents of such nature were discovered in Bombay, Trichy, Mangalore, Bangalore, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
