At my karate school, each belt has 4 aspects of syllabus. When you can do all of those 4 with acceptable proficiency, you get your next belt. So when you go for your black belt, you are basically tested on the entire syllabus - the 4 blocks of syllabus you learned on white belt, the 4 you learned on green belt, etc, all they way to the last 4 you learned on your brown belt. So there's no mystical zen mountain to climb - there's just syllabus to learn and remember.
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