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Originally Posted by kanik
In an ideal world the blackbelt would mean all of the above... BUT we are in a world where martial arts are run by money hungry, greedy, crap-wads. SO yeah. Now-a-days a black belt only seems to mean you have been doing whatever art for whatever amount of time. Or you have some minimum amount of knowledge needed for one.
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Now-a-days?
That's what black belt meant when it first came into popular use, back in the late 1920's. Nothing has changed except people's fantastic ideas of what black belt means to them, and what they think it should mean to others.
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