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Joecooke007
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Joined: 24 Nov 2001
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This is true. It is a bad thing when a black belt makes someone arrogant. 
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SaiFightsMS
KF VIP
Joined: 28 Oct 2001
Posts: 6322
Location: Ohio
Styles: Shotokan, Shorin Ryu, Shi-to Ryu
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A black belt can be a thing or a person. When the black belt is a person that is totally different then when a person is just wearing a black belt.
I believe for all of us that have earned black belts our belt is a special and unique thing for each of us. |
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moobrack
Black Belt
Joined: 09 Aug 2001
Posts: 1167
Location: Leeds
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Black Belts have to be earned through consistency of good,solid training, and sheers determination, for example.
On my 1st Dan grading, it started out fibe, then I developed an awful migrane and started to vomit. I was vomiting non-stop on and off for the whole grading.Karate-Ronin kept asking me to sit down, but I wouldn't because I wanted the belt so much despite feeling like total garbage.
I think that anywhere along the lines of what I have just said shows that you are mentally ready to achieve a black belt grade.
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jakmak52
Green Belt
Joined: 21 Oct 2001
Posts: 356
Location: Gulfport, Florida
Styles: ITF TKD (Chang Hon) & Shotokan
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2001 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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Earning all those belts prior to it  |
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SaiFightsMS
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Joined: 28 Oct 2001
Posts: 6322
Location: Ohio
Styles: Shotokan, Shorin Ryu, Shi-to Ryu
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Moobrak sounds like you earned your belt. I had a similar experience getting my 5th kyu.
Everyone of my strips of cloth have a special meaning to me and a set of different stories and struggles behind them.
My faded threadbare 1st kyu belt is really ragged and a real treasure. |
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on the post.
