Yellow Belt:
During this belt, students should learn the crescent kick, jump front kick, flying side kick, forward spin side kick, shin kick, scissor stance, forward stance, knife hand, backfist, palm strike, ridge hand, knee, hammerfist, and elbow strikes, knife hand block, palm heel block, and ridge hand block.

Blue Belt:
During this belt, students should learn the hook kick, axe kick, back spin side kick, parallel stance, cat stance, one-legged stance, crosshand block, backhand block, back hand, spearhand, and bent wrist strikes.  Blue belts should begin to be comfortable with instructing junior belts, and should be capable of leading a warmup session and basic workout.  Blue belts should be able to use the nunchaku in a variety of attacks and blocks.  They should be capable of rolling and falling without injury.

Green Belt:
During this belt, students should learn the tornado kick, spinning back hook kick,  spinning crescent kick, back kick, flying knee strike, jump round kick, jump spinning back hook kick, jump spinning back crescent kick, horse stance, hourglass stance, back stance, and wedge block.  Green belts should be very comfortable with instruction and should be able to direct an entire class period.  They should be able to devise combinations and have a solid grasp of fighting techniques.  They should have some understanding of self-defense techniques and how to take a strike without damage.  They should be able to use the bo and sai for a variety of strikes and blocks against a variety of weapons.

Brown Belt:
During this belt, students should learn drop spin hook kick and bear hand strike.  They should be capable of leading the class for an entire period, including kata instruction.  They should have refinement of their lower-level kata and should be able to take a hard fall or strike without injury.  They should have thorough knowledge of nunchaku, bo, and sai techniques and be able to demonstrate those techniques and devise combinations for them.  They should be proficient in self-defense and capable of devising self-defense combinations.

Shodan:
During this rank, the student should learn the ball-of-foot round kick, double jump front kick, back spinning round kick, double jump crescent kick, bottom-of-heel front kick, twisting kick, and box block.  They should learn precision and perfect control of technique and their motions.