{"id":70,"date":"2013-01-17T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T21:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2013-02-07T04:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T04:42:37","slug":"rankings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/?page_id=70","title":{"rendered":"Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kobudo-ka must be able to comply with all Kobudo requirements as set forth by the Kobudo division of the International Shuri-Ryu Association. All three requirements of age, rank and time must be met.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gakusei: (Kyu and\/or junior level) must be 12 years of age or over, must hold a martial arts rank of 4th to 1st kyu and must have at least 3 to 7 years experience in an unarmed martial art. Gakusei level Kobudo-ka must be able to perform the same number of weapons and forms as the Gakusha level. 3 weapons and 4 forms are required.<\/li>\n<li>Gakusha:(Student level) must be 17 to 34 years of age, must hold a martial arts rank of 1st to 2nd Dan and must have at least 8 years experience in an unarmed martial art. 4 weapons and 5 forms are required.<\/li>\n<li>Tachi: (Intermediate teacher level) must be 17 to 34 years of age, must hold a martial arts rank of 3rd to 4th Dan and must have at least 8 years experience in an unarmed martial art. 5 weapons and 5 forms are required.<\/li>\n<li>Renshi: (Teacher level) must be 35 to 49 years of age, hold a martial arts rank of 5th to 6th Dan and must have at least 18 to 29 years experience in an unarmed martial art. 6 weapons and 6 forms as well as two or more registered Kobudo-ka are required.<\/li>\n<li>Kyoshi: (Master level) must be 50 to 59 years of age, must hold a martial arts rank of 7th to 8th Dan, must be recognized by at least 2 or more foreign countries and \/or 2 or more authentic Grandmasters of 8th to 9th Dan and must have at least 30 to 40 years experience in an unarmed martial art. 7 weapons and 8 forms plus bunkai are required.<\/li>\n<li>Hanshi: (Grandmaster level) must be 60 years of age or over, must hold a martial arts rank of 9th to 10th Dan, must be recognized by at least 2 or more foreign countries and\/or 2 or more authentic Grandmasters of 9th to 10th Dan and must have at least 40 years or more experience in an unarmed martial art. 8 weapons and 10 forms are required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, all Kobudo-ka are required to know or be aware of the following for rank:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>History of each weapon and at least 5 immobilization self defenses and 20 or more disabling techniques with each weapon performed with perfect focus (buki kime).<\/li>\n<li>Must be able to defend with all weapons against the Bo or Jo.<\/li>\n<li>Must be able to perform and manipulate each weapon in the four basic postures of standing, kneeling, siting and lying down.<\/li>\n<li>Three attached to hand weapons are considered the same as one manipulatable weapon (bunkai).<\/li>\n<li>Must have no history of acts of violence or mental instability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kobudo-ka must be able to comply with all Kobudo requirements as set forth by the Kobudo division of the International Shuri-Ryu Association. All three requirements of age, rank and time must be met. Gakusei: (Kyu and\/or junior level) must<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/?page_id=70\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/283"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheridansmartialarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}