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Sensei Tom O'Brien
Orange Belt
Joined: 13 Sep 2006
Posts: 125
Location: Suffern, NY
Styles: Vee-Jitsu, Shotokan, Arnis, Tae Kwon Do
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Nope, no tests or ranking. They do test for officials though. You have to take a written & performance test. The officials are rated as 'R', 'J' & 'O'. I am a 'J' rated official. Thats why, much as I hate to admit it, we need some kind of governing body to keep out the phony rip-off artists & keep it real.
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 30167
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, GRACIE, Police Krav Maga, SPEAR
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KamasandSais
Blue Belt
Joined: 02 Aug 2006
Posts: 309
Styles: karate tae kwon do and jujitsu
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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wow! this was posted way back when... I wonder what brought it back up?
anyways, its a great story. _________________ "Sword-Chucks yo."
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Yes, thanks a lot guys. Hey, kamasandsais, that was something that you knew that I did not!! |
<---blackmail hahahahhaha bushido |
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brokenswordx
Orange Belt
Joined: 22 May 2006
Posts: 101
Location: America
Styles: Shito-Ryu Karate, Muso Jikiden Eishin Iaido, Kendo
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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lol when i first started taking karate i wanted to be "the best" student and my dojo and was often frustrated with myself because i was comparing everything i did to the higher ranks. then 1 day i realized that as long as i had intentions to be "the best" i would never be a black belt, so that's when i trained to be the best i could be without doubts or 2nd guesses. i had to trust myself and strength and in time i became more powerful now than when i first started. lol i know i'm a bit different from everyone else in the dojo (i'm the only african american in the higher rank class), but i was asked to help out someone when they got stuck. it's my nature to help and i never once said no, remembering when i needed help...anyways now that i'm a brown belt, my sensei has me help out the younger kids and in iai-do i guess cause i give pretty good explantions and i pay attention to what id being taught. getting my black belt has always driven me and kept me from quitting karate and iaido and i'm thankful i didn't 'cause now i'm only 2 more borwn belt away from getting my black belt. even more than that is to protect people and try to stop voilence before it starts, i broke up a fight in once school and everyone thouight i lost my mind, but i was thinking that martial arts teaches to talk out our problems before striking and doing something we'll later regret. lol i didn't mean to get this deep into the topic.... _________________ <3 |
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kikal0t
Yellow Belt
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Posts: 42
Location: U.K.
Styles: Okinawan Goju Ryu
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting thread nice one Steve!
The strange thing is, wen i started out in karate it was purely to do 'something' and its a useful sport in that it can be applied to protect yourself and others. After a while i guess you can stop in that you have pretty much got the hang of the basics and that is enough (i know you have to keep training but just for arguments sake). The weird thing is, and i don't know if anyone else feels this but you just have to keep going. For me i don't think it is the social interaction or anything else, i fact i dont know what it is but if you miss a class the guilt just eats you. I know this is really random and if anyone could throw some comments on this that would be great. |
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baronbvp
Black Belt
Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 1151
Location: Berlin, Germany
Styles: Muay Thai, boxing, JKD/MMA, Shorin Ryu, military combat arts, fencing, archery
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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When I don't train, I can't stop thinking about it. I train because I can't not train. _________________ Only as good as I make myself be, only as bad as I let myself be.
Martial arts are like kinetic chess. Your move. |
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