The first in a series of standards for Black Belts to provide high quality martial arts instruction and promotion methodology for teaching and promoting in a generic, "hard style" martial arts program. This program includes elements from fighting arts and martial arts from Okinawa, Japan, China and Korea, providing a strong foundation in each. This document provides a standard for a uniform learning program that will allow students and Black Belts to return to training in any location without having to start at the beginning again that is often required. The posted use of this standard can increase student attendance by allowing students who have stopped training for any reason to return and these returning students and Black belts will help to grow a school in its popularity through using this standard's demanding process. The use of this standard will improve the quality of the students and instruction by Black Belts teaching requirements for a traditional martial arts training program. The contents of this standard will illustrate the severity of the training and conditioning, education and learning necessary for today's martial arts students and Black Belts to achieve rank. This standard has become necessary due to a large number of people claiming to have earned a Black Belt (Instructor) whose path is suspect. This document will identify the fundamental knowledge that Blacks Belts should have, including the difference between a martial art style and system and how each one is created, and between a traditional martial art and a contemporary fighting art. See if your martial arts training and instructors measure up to the martial arts instruction and training program in this standard. This standard will be maintained by releasing corrected and/or improved revisions to keep this standard as a viable tool for maintaining the quality of traditional martial arts programs by increasing the quality of the behavior from Black Belts and students.