Trainee Instructor Test Questions and Answers as of 1 December 2008

1. Heisoku Dachi -
2. Musubi Dachi -
3. Haishigi Dachi -
4. Kiba Dachi -
5. Zenkutsu Dachi -
6. Hame no sho Kiba Dachi -
7. Kage Dachi -
8. Neko Dachi –
9. Seiken Tsuki –
10. Tate Tsuki –
11. Ura Tsuki –
12. Mawashi Tsuki –
13. Age Tsuki –
14. Kage Ken Tsuki –
15. Gedan Uke –
16. Chudan Uke –
17. Jodan Uke –
18. Nagashi Uke –
19. Haishu Uke –
20. Mae Geri –
21. Yoko Geri –
22. Ushiro Geri –
23. Sokuto Geri –
24. Mawashi Geri –
25. What is the saying when bowing the class to the front?
26. What does it translate to?
27. Yame Translates too? And how do you use it?
28. Translate “Sensei”.
29. Translate “Shihan”.

1. Formal Stance
2. Knotted Stance
3. Natural Stance
4. Horse riding Stance
5. Frontal Stance
6. 45 Degree Horse Riding Stance
7. Shadow Stance
8. Cats Paw Stance
9. Twisting Punch
10. Vertical Punch
11. Upper Cut Punch
12. Roundhouse Punch
13. Rising Punch
14. Swimming Punch
15. Low Block
16. Middle Block
17. Upper Block
18. Push Block
19. Back Hand Block
20. Front Kick
21. Side Kick
22. Back Kick
23. 45 Degree Snap Kick
24. Roundhouse Kick
25. Shomen ni Taishiti Orei
26. Great Bow to the front.
27. Loosely means “come to attention” (stop, look and listen). Use it to bring the class to attention to show them the next technique or explain something in detail.
28. One who has been before. Usually 3rd dan and above with students.
29. One who directs the path of a school.

1. Translate “Kyoshi”
2. Translate “Hanchi”
3. When does a instructor say “I think…” when answering a question?
4. How do you arrange students to teach in a small class?
5. How do you arrange students to teach in a medium sized class?
6. How do you arrange students to teach in a large class?
7. Which way should you face when teaching students?
8. When speaking, where do you project your voice?
9. When teaching kata, how many movements should be taught at a time?
10. Should you let a student use the bathroom when they need to in the middle of class time?
11. If a student leaves the mat without telling the instructor, what do you say to student?
12. Should you ever be alone with a child student at anytime?
13. If someone is feeling lightheaded in class, what do you do?
14. How should the pace of a average class be?
15. How many repetitions of a technique should be performed with children in any given class?
16. Why?
17. Should children teach children?
18. How do you reprimand a goof off student?
19. When teaching children blocks in beginner class, should they alternate sides?
20. Who enforces proper customs and courtesies on the mat?
21. How should you correct that student?
22. What is Kuzushi?
23. What are the 4 levels of Kuzushi?
24. What are the 8 types of Attack?
25. What is the Japanese term used to describe “receiving the ground?”
26. What are the 4 principals of break falls?
27. What are heat cramps caused by?
28. What part(s) of the body does heat cramps most often affect?
29. How should you treat heat cramps?
30. Name the major muscles controlling foot extension.
31. What pressure point is located on these muscles?

1. Teacher of Black Belts or of Shihan
2. Master twice over.
3. Never!
4. Single line.
5. Triangle.
6. Diamond.
7. Generally same direction of students and to their left and slightly forward.
8. To a point in the rear of class.
9. 3. Repeat until they show you the movements without you correcting at least 3 times.
10. Yes. And kids immediately!
11. Explain in a matter of fact tone, during class time you need to know where he/she is at all times because we are responsible for the student. If they leave without telling, we don’t know if they are hurt or have left the dojo.
12. Never!
13. Lay student down off mat, elevate feet higher than head and place cold compress on back of neck.
14. Enthusiastically.
15. No more than 50.
16. Children’s attention span is short. Never bore a class.
17. Never.
18. 1st ask to pay attention. 2. Ask if they want to go to time out. 3. Do jumping jacks. 4. Send to time out. 5. Ask them to leave the mat until they are willing to work hard.
19. Only on High block and push block.
20. Me, myself and I.
21. In a matter of fact way but polite way.
22. Breaking balance of opponent.
23. Feet/Ankles, Knees, Hips, Shoulders/Head.
24. Direct, Defensive, Passive, Hit & Run, Counter, Circle, Surprise, Sacrifice.
25. Ukemi
26. Bite (clench teeth), Bend (chin to chest), Breathe (exhale sharply upon contact with ground)   Breakfall (strike ground upon impact.)
27. Loss of water and salt due to heavy sweating caused by high temperatures and/or heavy exercise.
28. Most often the abdomen and legs.
29. Move the person to a cool place, provide them cool water, and gently massage the cramping muscles.
30. Gastrocnemius and Soleus.
31. Tibial Nerve.

1. What primary muscle's are used in performing kicks to the side of the body?
2. The primary muscle used to extend the knee, (as in a front kick) is called?
3. What two pressure points are located near this muscle?
4. Where are these pressure points located?
5. What is the most effective way to correct a child student’s performance?
6. What should you say to a student that asks lots of irrelevant questions?
7. When a student accidentally strikes another too hard and a parent intervenes, what should you do?
8. What should you do when a student hits another too hard on purpose?
9. When a Black Belt is not heading a class and a lower belt rank bows in class, do the students bow to lower rank?
10. When a person gets a bloody nose what course of action should be taken?
11. What should you do for muscle cramping (Charley Horses) after working out?
12. What do you do if someone is lying injured on the mat and they say they have no feeling or can’t move their arms or legs?
13. Name all the stretches/warm ups in order we do in basic class.
14. How do you warm up Intermediate Class?
15. How do you warm up Advanced Class?
16. What do you do if someone walks in off of the street with questions about classes and Shihan is unable to help the person himself or not there?
17. What do you do if Shihan is sick and can not teach classes for a day?
18. When assisting in classes, how should you correct students making a physical mistake?
19. When a person says “I can’t do that.” What should you say?
20. In tournaments, what is the number range for form?
21. In tournaments, what should you look for in the competitor?
22. When testing, what items do you set up for Shihan?
23. Should students enter from back door?
24. In the youth’s basic and intermediate class, where are the low kicks to?
25. What are the names of the two bones of the forearm? (between elbow and wrists)
26. What nerve is near the center of the forearm and on top?
27. What is the Deltoid muscle and name the 3 parts?
28. What does RICE stand for?
29. When you should you apply heat to an injury?
30. What is the penalty for eating candy, chewing gum in the dojo?
31. Are students (waiting for the next class) allowed to use the Wavemasters?
32. Name 12 points of applied pressure.
33. How many muscles does the human body have?
34. How many bones does the human body have?

1. Gluteus Medius and Gluteus Minimus.
2. Rectus Femoris.
3. Common Peroneal nerve and Femoral nerve.
4. A few inches above the knee on the inside and outside of the thigh.
5. Praise, Correct, Praise.
6. Save questions for after class.
7. Say “Thank you for your concern, but I can handle it” and smile!
8. Ask the student to leave the mat for the rest of the class. Bring them back on for the Code and Creed.
9. No. Just bow to the front.
10. Get student off the mat. Keep person sitting. Apply tissue to area of blood. Apply pressure below bridge of nose. Apply ice if needed to nose. Have mat cleaned in the immediate area of the contact.
11. Calcium lactate and vitamin E.
12. Call 911 immediately and do not move the person as there could be a spinal injury and moving could cause permanent paralysis.
13. Left hand and right wrist and elbow shake. Rotate arms forward and back. Chin to chest, Chin to ceiling. Look left, look right. Face front touch toes. Frog stretch. Place hands in front of body Chinese stretch, left, right and center. Cat stretch forward and back twice. Sit down legs in a v. Stretch to left, right, center with two hands. Bring legs together and shake it out. Touch toes. Butterfly stretches then grab ankles use elbows to push down knees. Groin stretch. Knee’s together spinal stretch. Body bridge 3 times. 30 or 50 crunches. 7 times down 8 times up.
14. All basic 5 blocks, 6 punches and 6 kicks.
15. Sanchin Kata or Ten No Kata. Also combination blocking.
16. Please! Get name and phone number. Use the mini sheets provided.
17. Have a sign in sheet. Instructor signs for class they were in charge of. Everyone must sign the sheet!
18. Silently physically correct student. If student is having a lot of difficulty, ask permission to move student to side of mat and work with him privately.
19. All I want you to do is keep trying. Don’t give up! Correct them that we do not use 4 letter words in class. (Jokingly). (Can’t).
20. 7 to 10 with 8.5 being average.
21. Presentation, precision of technique and intensity.
22. Table, table cloth, multiple chairs, candle, pens, clip board.
23. No. Always walk through front. i.e. sneaking into the dojo.
24. Obi (belt) knot.
25. Radius and the Ulna.
26. Radial Nerve.
27. Outer shoulder muscle. Anterior (front), Medial (center) and Posterior (rear).
28. When a student is injured apply; RICE – Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.
29. When the redness has gone away. (There is no heat coming from the injury). Or at least 3 days from date of injury.
30. 30 Push Ups. Basic students get a pass once.
31. No. Causes too much noise and is a distraction for students on the mat.
32. Infra Orbital, Radial, Hypo-Glossal, Mandibular Angle, Brachial Plexus, Brachial Plexus Tie In, Brachial Clavicular Notch, Supra Scapular, Supra Sternal Notch, Common Peroneal, Femoral and Tibial.
33. There are around 640 named muscles in the human body - in addition to thousands of smaller (un-named) muscles. Knowledge of muscle structure and familiarization with the major muscles of the body is an essential part of training in many therapies - such as Massage, Aromatherapy, Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Martial Arts and others.
34. At birth the human body has about 350 bones, but by the time adulthood rolls around, some of our bones have fused together to give us a total of 206 bones in our body!