AIT - Black Belt Pre-test Assessment Part 1

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AIT - Black Belt Pre-test Assessment Part 1

When is a student ready for his Black Belt Test? How do we decide that a student is ready? Because he's completed a certain number of classes? When he can perform a certain number of combo's? Or when he is judged to have done sufficient work? Ask 100 people and you will get 100 different answers. 

Whilst it is impossible to be totally objective in how we decide who is and isn't ready. Rather we should aspire to be as objective as possible and whilst an instructor is important in that process, he/she should have an objective method to make the decision. 

This course is an attempt to create an objective method with which to assess the readiness or otherwise of a Black Belt candidate. This assessment becomes the the baseline level of the skills of a potential Black Belt and if we administer it fairly and well we create a measurable target to achieve that is the same for everyone. 

This assessment is intended to find what, if anything, a student needs to attend to in his preparation for the test. It is intended not to test, but to reveal, how prepared a student is.