Requirement: Fulfill (and document) 10 achievements considered "Personal Victories." A Personal Victory may be anything that a participant feels is a noteworthy personal accomplishment.

Requirement: Participants perform their final physical test performance (demo) in front of ten separate audiences, prior to the final UBBT event.

Requirement: All UBBT candidates must memorize the speech: "MASTERY."

Requirement: 52,000 (minimum) push-ups and crunches are required by final exam. That’s 150 a day, 1000 a week, each.

Requirement: One thousand (1000) rounds of sparring (stand up and/or ground fighting) are required by final exam time. That is an average of three rounds per day. Rounds must be 2 minutes or longer.

Requirement: Each participant in the UBBT must complete 150 hours of Jiu-Jitsu mat time (average of three hours per week).

Progress: 116 Repetitions

Requirement: Each UBBT participant will choose one Kata and complete a minimum of 1000 repetitions of it. This Kata will be a part of the final UBBT exam.

Requirement: Most martial arts are more sport than self defense making this a requirement in the Ultimate Black Belt Test. Because Shinkyu Kenpo is all about self defense and not about sport, this requirement is already full filled. I will intensify my training in the three combat / self defense arts.

Requirement: Candidates must have a minimum of 20 hours of training with a boxing or Muay Thai boxing coach. If you can’t box, you don’t know how to punch. A black belt in any martial arts who has not studied boxing couldn't hold his or her own against a fighter of equal size with just one-year (or less) of boxing training. The “ultimate” black belt studies the “sweet science” of boxing—or suffers a huge gap in his or her understanding of the art of hand-to-hand combat.

Requirement: Each candidate will be required to seek out one master (of any discipline in or out of the martial arts), conduct and interview and if possible, study with him or her.

Requirement: Each candidate will be required to read 12 or more books pertaining to management, environmentalism, peace, philosophy, motivation, or “enlightenment.” Members of the UBBT have access to a suggested reading list; however, the candidate, based on his or her interests, may choose the titles. Books read will be tracked in the UBBT`s on-line journals.

I have decided to go with something other than Tony Robbins because I have already gone though two of Tony Robbins courses.

Requirement: Participants must go through the Tony Robbins 30-Day or 7-Day tape series or have equivalent training to the Robbin's educational program.

There is a base of beliefs and attitudes taught in works by authors and speakers such as Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Earl Nightingale, and others, which can serve the martial arts master instructor in many ways. Being familiar with the work of this century’s greatest motivational speakers provides the martial arts teacher with many invaluable resources.

Requirement: One full day of living in a wheelchair, one full day blind, and one full day mute are required by all candidates.

Why: Empathy for others may be one of the most powerful forms of self-defense. The inspiration for the day in a wheelchair (which lead to the blind and mute days) came from three sources. Manuel Vega, the son in law of legendary martial arts teacher Ralph Castro, had a wheelchair-bound student that he taught for many years. When the student passed away, Vega, in his honor, continued to offer classes for those interested. I was inspired by his story—and by two of my students; Patrick Flannigan and Jay Pak of Reno, NV. Patrick had a bicycle accident, and Jay a car accident, that left them both confined to wheelchairs. In their honor—and for the many millions of people who live without the use of their legs—we spend our own day in a wheelchair.

Requirement: Each candidate must perform and log 1000 acts of kindness and compassion in his or her UBBT Workbook (or in an on-line Acts of Kindness web site. In addition to this requirement, each candidate must be the catalyst for 50,000 (minimum) acts of courtesy, kindness, and respect from their students and/or community. Candidates may choose to use Tom Callos’ Random Acts of Kindness Program (available through NAPMA) or the first booklet in the Six Tasks Character Development Program (available through MAIA) or a program of their own creation.

Requirement: Candidates are required to right three wrongs they have done in their lives --or mend three broken relationships.

Requirement: "The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step"—Lao Tsu.

Each participant will be required to walk, run (walk/run),for bike a minimum of 1000 miles over the duration of their test.

Progress: 2 Profiled

Requirement: Each UBBT participant must search out and profile 10 living heroes. The 10 heroes may NOT include family members, war heroes, or more than one student.

Requirement: Each candidate must seek out formal training in meditation from a meditation master. Each participant must practice 15 minutes of meditation practice, 7 days a week.

Requirement: Each candidate must participate in, or spearhead, an environmental clean-up or improvement project.