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10 | 15.87% |
| skill |
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5 | 7.94% |
| experience |
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17 | 26.98% |
| overall fighting ability |
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1 | 1.59% |
| all of the above |
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30 | 47.62% |
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Well I aint gonna try and justify my stupidity, because that would be... well... stupid! All I can say is. Oh damn, there goes me making dumb-ass assumptions again. But seriously, what you said makes perfect sence, good job pulling me up on that. ^_^
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Well since the black belt nowdays seems to mean soo many things to different people, I thought I'd just give my two cents now.
"The only thing the belt is good for is holding your pants up, let's spar shall we?" Maturity in the arts, and holding your pants up. Seem too complicated? I still say we should go back to the old days when all the students wore a white belt, never washed it and as the years grew the belt became different colors because of the long time of training, green, yellow, brown then after about 20-30 years maybe black. But of course that's up for speculation, I think It's a good concept myself. Tell that to any of my students BTW: would a loop belt be better then a strap on belt for my size 80 jeans? haha!!!
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Jigoro Kano invented the use of the color belt system back in the later 1800's for his Elementary school Judo students. Gichin Funakoshi copied the idea for Karate, then it took off from there. The original colors were white, red and black, the official colors of Japan at that time. Alcohol |
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This has probably already been said but a black belt means to me nothing more than a marketing ploy to dupe the unsuspecting out of their hard earned cash.
Obviously I didn't vote becuase the most correct answer wasn't there.
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I always heard the belt system actually came from an American, post world war. He was teaching Karate in America, something he found during the world wa - and to his surprise he found that Americans want a series of short-term goals as they work towards a long term goal.
the problem was his Karate had two belts - white and black. And he couldn't keep people interested long enough on the journey to black belt (it was too much of a long term goal to hold their interest for long) so he came up with small stair steps on the way to black belt - so the Americans could focus on short term goals. Even during the time I spent studying Judo, I never heard that Jigoro Kano was the "inventer of the belt system." But it may well be true, because my story up above is just anecdotal information passed around a classroom that claimed it taught "self-defense" and in reality only taught some weird dance moves that weren't good for self-defense, and weren't much good for dance, either. -- In answer to your question, what does a black belt symbolize, it depends on the system. In most traditional martial art classes, a black belt signifies that you showed up to class, paid your fees to attend the class, did some movements in the air for hours, learned some semi-acrobatic kicks and self-defense moves that wouldn't work on Grandma. However, in a BJJ curriculum, the belts are handed out for performance - fighting ability. If you can hang with the blue belts then you will eventually find yourself receiving a blue belt. It's all based on actual fighting performance - and its the only kind of "belt system" I care about. It's a really, really, really good thing to have a belt system based on performance. People actually learn to fight!
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It would be funnier if she ducked it, threw him to the ground, and went to stomping..
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To me it's experience.
I'm a 5th Dan but I know I was better as a 3rd or 4th Dan, so I can't say that I'm better than an 18 year old 3rd Dan just skill. And I’m a much better coach at 34 than I was at 18…so experience is my answer.
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