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Posted Nov 13, '12 at 5:30pm
MageGrayWolf
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The ranking and training one has doesn't necessarily reflect the color belt they wear. Some places have more colors between white and black some have less. Some places you have to earn a white belt, some places will just give it to you flat out. The requirements to go to the next level can be vastly different as well. So in the end finding out what belt a person wears tells you nothing.
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Posted Nov 13, '12 at 5:49pm
Blackbeltr0
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accually u still have to earn it if u dont earn it u are not a black belt
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Posted Nov 13, '12 at 6:18pm
Minotaur55
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I have trained in various martial arts however I never received a "rank" or a "belt" because my training was somewhat unorthodox. If I could say my belt ranking I think it might be a black belt, might be. I am not sure but I do have some sort of high rank.
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Posted Nov 13, '12 at 8:50pm
Ernie15
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I wear a black belt every day. Helps keep my jeans from falling around my ankles.
Oh, and you're not supposed to wear them with brown shoes. That's a major fashion faux pas.
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Posted Nov 13, '12 at 11:59pm
Strop
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So in the end finding out what belt a person wears tells you nothing.
In a way yes. Depends on where you come from, especially if you're in an Asian country, or a country which cites a national martial art. In particular, you do not want to mess with a black belt in TKD in Korea (especially not an ITF practicioner), nor would you want to pick a fight with a black belt karateka in Japan. By and large the training and their requirements are hardcore and they don't get a choice between sparring or not, they just do everything.
I find the Australian approach to grading and advancement in TKD to be generally very relaxed (except at the clubs which train international and olympic fighters). Here, all the colour of the belt will tell you is how many forms that person has learnt.
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Posted Nov 13, '12 at 11:59pm
Strop
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I wear a black belt every day. Helps keep my jeans from falling around my ankles.
Maybe you should stop living the thug lyfe and start wearing jeans that fit :P
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Posted Nov 14, '12 at 6:42am
Blackbeltr0
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Minotaur55
YEah u would be a blackbelt i have talked to u before
Here, all the colour of the belt will tell you is how many forms that person has learnt.
I would say other wise I had to do 135 push-ups and sit-ups, forms, speed brake, and kick brakes along with our stuff to pass for 1 and 2dan
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Posted Nov 14, '12 at 7:44am
Strop
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Well yes of course we'd have to break boards too at red belt (3rd gup) and up, but for the kids if they couldn't break the board in 3 tries on the day of grading, they let them reattempt it in class later on. How lenient is that!
Some clubs wouldn't let some of my friends attain black belt on the basis they were overweight. It depends on where you're going I guess. As for me, I won't have any problem with conditioning, so long as our club ace comes back from his sabbatical... he's very fond of "the night of a thousand kicks", which is more like a thousand kicks, plus a hundred situps and pushups each, plus shuttle runs... I think there's a reason why senior class attendance is so poor...
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Posted Nov 14, '12 at 11:21am
Aradesh2
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In our country you dont need to have any belts. Pay respect to people who around you, thats all
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Posted Nov 14, '12 at 4:20pm
MageGrayWolf
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In a way yes. Depends on where you come from, especially if you're in an Asian country, or a country which cites a national martial art. In particular, you do not want to mess with a black belt in TKD in Korea (especially not an ITF practicioner), nor would you want to pick a fight with a black belt karateka in Japan. By and large the training and their requirements are hardcore and they don't get a choice between sparring or not, they just do everything.
I find the Australian approach to grading and advancement in TKD to be generally very relaxed (except at the clubs which train international and olympic fighters). Here, all the colour of the belt will tell you is how many forms that person has learnt.
This is kind of my point. One place is going to have different standard for what it take to reach a black belt than another. Also there can be more or less grades between belts depending on where you train. So just saying you have a black belt doesn't really say a thing for how well you are trained. Someone from one of these countries with a national martial arts could hold a lower color belt, but be better trained than a person with a black belt from some place else.
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