Appendix "S"
Standards

You will progress faster one class per week for four years than you will at four classes per week for one year.
 

1. Be there

2. Be on time, be there until class is concluded

3. Sign in at onset

4. Pay when due

5. Minimum 24 hours notice to instructor when not coming

6. Higher rank has absolute authority

7. All rank is permanent

8. Authority of rank can promote to two levels below

9. Black Belt and higher can promote to own level, in accord with
    Appendix "M"

10. No contact until Brown Belt or higher. Touch contact at Brown
     Belt. Black Belt and above, as agreed.
 

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Protocol

11. Bow when entering or departing dojo

12. Bow when Sensei enters class

13. Address all black belts as "Sensei"

14. Show up on time dressed and in position

15. Be clean, wear clean uniforms, no odors, practice good personal
      hygiene

16. No jewelry in class

17. Pay on the first class of the month, mark paid in the sign-in book

18. Call 24 hours in advance if you must miss a class

19. Be awake and balanced at all times, do not lean against walls

20. Do not yawn

21. Record techniques and observations in your personal notebook

22. No racial, religious, sex or physical traits are to joked about or
     commented on within the confines of the dojo

23. When told to execute a move/kata avoid thinking & questioning,
      just execute

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Safety

24. Student has the right to abstain from any exercise to protect
      him/herself

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Aids Awareness

25. Bandage wounds, scrapes, cuts

26. Do not use someone else's sparring gear

 

27. You have the right to claim self-defense distance before exercise

28. Lower belts (purple and below) strike no closer than 6" from
      opponent's face

29. Do not strike pressure points on opposite sides of opponent's body

30. When you hear "Yamai" or your opponent taps out, release your
      hold immediately and carefully.

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Kata

31. Do not begin a kata until you are ready

32. Once you start a kata you must finish it

33. If you forget the kata , make one up and finish it

34. Do not allow yourself to be distracted by Anyone

35. Stop when the kata is finished or you hear, "Yamai"

36. Person doing kata owns the floor. Give him/her plenty of room