Just like the adult students, children also grow through the different classes and belt ranks by incremental learning checkpoints which we call “Progress Check” or “Stripe Testing”. At the end of the different training periods, students are challenged to show their growth over the past weeks and months leading up to this evaluation. As the students show a high level of effort and commitment to their training, they earn stripes on their belts to represent the next level of accomplishment. Once students earn enough stripes, they graduate to the next belt. Adults are unique in that they still undergo a separate formal testing after they have earned their complete set of stripes.