Pa Kua Chuan Ranking Guidelines

Criteria

• Tea Cup Exercise

• Bat Landing On Ground Exercise

• Walking The Circle
  Wood Floating/Cloud Carrying/Spinning/Rope Climbing Palms

• Single Palm Change 

All palm changes are required to be done Stationary & Walking all levels

5.50 - 6.0

• Double Palm 

• Double Palm Change

• Back Body Palm

• Return Body Palm

6.0 - 6.5

• Spinning Body Palm

• Follow Through Body Palm

• Cover Body Palm

• Swimming Body Palm

6.5 - 7.0

• Pa Kua Continuous Form 
  Lines 1 - 4

7.0 - 7.5

• Pa Kua Continuous Form
   Lines 5 - 8 

7.5 - 8.5

• Chin Na Dui Da 1 - 6

8.5 & Higher

• Applications to Palm Changes

• History & Lineage of Pa Kua

• Time teaching
  250 hours supervised

Black Sash Fourth Degree

• Applications to Pa Kua Chuan Continuous Form

• Cross train in Hsing Yi Chuan

8 Years

• Continued time studying and additional knowledge gained

• Continued time studying and additional knowledge gained

• Cross train in Tai Chi Chuan

• Continued time studying and additional knowledge gained

• Cross train in Shaolin (one form)

• Continued time studying and additional knowledge gained

• Cross train in Qigong

• Continued time studying and additional knowledge gained

• Continued time studying and additional knowledge gained

• Has promoted a student to Master Level 

• Continued time studying and additional knowledge gained