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A thing that really confused me when Richard entered the FSKA tournament which has always been held in America before this year was the Americans kept on telling people to move back to the bleachers. If us English knew what Bleachers were we would have.....
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A thing that really confused me when Richard entered the FSKA tournament which has always been held in America before this year was the Americans kept on telling people to move back to the bleachers. If us English knew what Bleachers were we would have.....
What do you call them?
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Whats your opinion on that, they dont actually disclose to the students what belt they are and the students are forbidden to ask!
I have absolutely no problem with having a colored belt teach a class provided that it is supervised and being done in order to teach the colored belt something.
HOWEVER...
Like in most things, I am not a fan of deception. If I put a red belt up to teach my yellow belt class, I will tell my yellows that he/she is a red belt instead of trying to disguise that fact. Likewise, I expect them to show all the same respect as if I had put a black belt in charge.
In my mind it kind of works like this: Master Chang (9th Dan) delegates the responsibility of the beginner class to me and so, when I am teaching that class, I deserve the same respect they would afford him. However, when I am a student in his class students in his class should treat me with the respect befitting a fellow student. In turn, when I put someone in charge of my class, my students should treat them with the same respect they would show me (which is the same respect they would show a 9th Dan), even if the person I put in charge is a lower rank.
Here is a for instance: Suppose I somehow manage to convince our overseeing non-profit to allow for an outside person to run a seminar (very unlikely) and I put Triangle in charge of my classes. Even though Triangle is unranked in TKD, I would expect my students to treat him as if he was a 9th Dan in TKD. (I wouldn't expect anything different because I imagine him to have an intimidating presence on 6 year olds. )
I didn't watch the entire video. But....I think a lot of them were following one basic person who is probably higher ranking than everyone else. It looks a bit hinky to me....but I don't know them OR their style.
Not been on the site in a while and sorry for dragging up an old thread but just thought i would let you know that after grading on saturday i asked Sam who is a black belt at the almighty age of 12 if he graded and he said that he does not get graded again until he is 16 as he will then have to grade for an Adult black belt. So i guess i owe everbody on here an apology who has been involved in the last few pages of this thread as the blackbelts are infact junior black belts (and deserved too)
This has thrown up some confusion for me though..... What about the other belts? are they junior belts too or are they classed as proper belts?
My boy just got his green > white stripe
he has quite a collection now
white
white yellow stripe
yellow white stripe
yellow
red 2 white stripe
red white stripe
red
orange white stripe
orange
green white stripe
The more he does Karate and the more progreeses the more i see why some of you have pesimistic views on the belt system and i have to agree that the belt is purchased rather than earned. The gulf between students of the same belt color at the dojo is plain for anybody to see. After realising this i myself think that belts are worthless apart from helping to keep the club afloat through much needed revenue via the gradings.
My humblest apologies
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Captain,
Your apology is accepted (although not necissary), and I'm sure most on here will agree that your eyes are now open. It's sad to say, and it always hurts when you finally have to admit it, but....As long as you keep pressing your son and keep him in the right mind set, he will learn valuable martial arts. The arts are full of people who don't deserve their belts, but.....if your son trains hard, and keeps the proper mindset, hopefully, he will deserve his. He will try his hardest to please you and his instructor. So if you keep on him and demand excellence as well as his instructor demanding the same, he will become the martial artist you want him to. I only hope he becomes the martial artist HE wants to become.
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