The Dan Test Preparation System

Mat Manual companion guide to "Testing for First Dan: The Longest Day in Taekwondo." Print it. The article describes the day. This system prepares you for yours: a written specification of your own school's test, a component-by-component readiness audit that weights the old forms first, a 12-week build planner with full mock tests, a breaking practice plan with holder assignments, and the test-day checklist that gets the right boards, documents, and candidate to the right hall.

Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Coach: ______________________________ Current grade: ______________ Test date: ______________ Federation: ______________________________

BEFORE ANYTHING: THE RULES OF THIS SYSTEM ☐ Your school's written specification of the test outranks every general statement in this book. Part 2 exists to capture it. Where the two differ, prepare to the specification and note the difference. ☐ The audit in Parts 4 to 10 is scored honestly or not at all. A candidate who inflates the audit meets the truth in public, on the day, at full price. ☐ Breaking practice follows the safety rules in Part 16 without exception: trained holders, correct materials, and no stack attempted untrained because the test is near. ☐ Mock tests are run at full duration. A shortened mock is a rehearsal of a shorter test that does not exist.

Part 1: The Test on One Page

The stack is the test. Candidates fail the stack more often than they fail any row of it, which is why this book's centre of gravity is not any single component but the audit that rates them all and the planner that runs them together, tired, in order, before the real day does.