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Re: Black Belt [Re: gillagin780]
    #14173882 - 03/24/11 01:52 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Despite all the tangents, this thread is NOT truly about martial arts and black belts, but about a human or group of humans being able to make an arbitrary decision as to who gets what color of belt when. It all seems very meaningless ego-stroking for both the Masters and the Students.

My (racquetball) students ALWAYS ask me what level they are. I generally deflect the question.


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Re: Black Belt [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #14174201 - 03/24/11 04:55 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

The awarding of a black-belt is only to determine that one is able to handle a single adversary on his/her own. That's all. It means that one should be able to carry his weight and is ready to train to become able to handle several opponents or to handle whatever goal one is seeking efficiently. A black-belt is not a master, nor is he/she a beginner; but somewhere in the middle... the beginning-middle, at most. A black-belt has only demonstrated, in a true sense of the tradition, that he/she is ready to begin serious training, and that their martial art isn't taken in vain within the individual.

Plenty of people reach black-belt and drop out because they think they've learned/earned enough; only to find out they've only just begun their journey to martial preparedness.


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