The experiment contains six levels and participants may decide on an individual basis which level they wish to allow before each pass.

1. Arm Movement Only (Push)
2. Arm/Body Movement Only (Push and up to the moment before the lock)
3. Arm/Body Movement, Joint Locks (Push and lock)
4. Arm/Body Movement, Joint Locks, To the Throw (Push, lock and up to the moment before the throw)
5. * Arm/Body Movement, Joint Locks, To the Ground (Push, lock and throw to the ground)
6. * Arm/Body Movement, Joint Locks, To the Ground Fighting to Submission (Push, lock, throw to the ground, and submission)

* Levels 5 and 6 are not currently to be practiced in Aethelmearc