PAGE:
 Everyone starts out at this level and advances from there. Before he can advance to squire he or she must fulfill the following requirements. Each of the five requirements have an explanation attached, explaining why we are using them, and what we hope to teach with them.

1- Service: The page must directly serve another through any public service group. The purpose to this is to demonstrate to the Page that no job, regardless of its social standing, is beneath them. Personal dignity is not lost by ‘stooping’ to a job considered beneath any given social level. The Page’s squire decides what is acceptable for this requirement and should clear it with his or her knight.
2- Humility: The page must demonstrate the ability to serve (see above), and to gracefully accept defeat in a contest of arms. This demonstrates that no matter the level of weapon proficiency achieved, there will inevitably be someone that can defeat the Page. Defeat does not have to be demeaning and it can be a positive learning experience for the Page.
3- Weapon proficiency: The page must complete training in ALL the novice-class weapons, including the ability to ‘pull’ blows with all novice-class weapons. This will not only develop the weapon training of the Page, but also demonstrate self discipline and control.
4- Honesty: The page must call blows delivered to themselves by an opponent. This inter-relates to #’s 2 and 3 above, and should teach an openness and honesty that reaches into other aspects of the Page’s life as well. Honesty, as a concept, does not preclude the making of mistakes, but promotes the admitting to them when recognized.
5- Discipline: The page must refrain from engaging in horseplay (pursuant to Rule 1 of our charter), remain quiet and attentive during addresses by an instructor, such as during workshops and meetings. This also promotes the concept of Respect.

SQUIRE:
 Squire training focuses more on the martial aspects of knighthood, but does not rule out the social aspects of the knight’s responsibilities to the community. The squire must fulfill the following requirements before they can advance to knight.

1- Service to Community: The squire must find a community service to provide, such as volunteering in another community service oriented group; making and keeping a commitment at it. Volunteering will serve not only the community, and the Squire, but will also, in the case of school aged Squires, benefit them in class requirements now instituted by NYS schools. Before a squire can be knighted he or she has to make a measurable difference in the community such as saving a life as a part of a rescue squad, changing the life of a kid who was going to end up in a gang, serving as a volunteer fireman for a year or organizing some sort of civic event that makes a difference. This is what knighthood is all about. 
2- Teamwork: The squire must work as a part of a team in the Order of the Roc. This includes helping to maintain weapons, check weapons for wear, setup and breakdown of the sparring and meeting locations, participating in demonstrations and important Order events; all on a consistent basis. A squire must learn that although they are advancing in the social strata, NO job is 'beneath them'. An excellent way to teach this is to lead by example. Squires should be setting a good example for pages.
3- Chivalry: The squire must articulate, in writing, his or her own personal code of honor, his or her conception of the values of knighthood, and his or her perception of the role of the Knight in the modern world. This is to be submitted to the squire’s knight, and is not intended to be read aloud to the rest of the Order, or shared about. The squire’s knight alone will determine the merit of this exercise. The knight is allowed to confer with senior knights about this exercise, but the other knights are bound by honor not to share with others what the squire writes. This rule will enable a squire to write as honestly as possible, with the knowledge that any personal feelings or issues they share will be kept in confidence.
4- Mentoring: The squire must sponsor a page at all times. This is to teach the squire how to teach and be responsible for any squires he or she will have as a knight, as well as to benefit the page. Each squire will have only one page.
5- Martial Prowess: The squire must design and craft a personal combat weapon that passes all safety criteria and teach this weapon to a novice or student that has not yet been cleared on this weapon. This allows the squire to develop a weapon and fighting style of their own as well as demonstrate that they understand both the safety requirements and the need for them.

KNIGHTHOOD:
Aspirants to knighthood must complete all of the above requirements, and be submitted for advancement to this rank by the knight they are squired to. Squires will be considered by all the knights of the order. Consideration by the knights may, or may not, result in advancement to knighthood. Squires may be re-submitted for advancement by their knight after a period of thirty days.
 Knights submitting a squire for advancement should consider the squire’s having made the concepts of chivalry and honor a part of their life, both within the Order and without. Knighthood is not a part time job, nor a costume to be donned and removed at a whim. Squires who demonstrate that they have become a knight both within and without will not have need to even ask their knight about being submitted. The knight will be able to see it, and act accordingly.
 Knights may have as many squires as they think they can handle at once. This will vary with the knight, some being more comfortable with only one or two squires, some being able to handle up to six. Knighthood is not a requirement for being an instructor, nor is being an instructor a requirement for knighthood.