| Chapel: 6 years white to black, which would leave me another year or two according to his standards. The style I trained up in was ITF based not WTF based, though the school that told me that it was 6 years minimum is also ITF based.
I believe the reason they do that is because they want their black belts to look better than everyone else's, so they hold them back rank wise. their 1sts have as many years as most other school's 2nd's, their 2nd's look like other school's 3rd's. etc. |