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I remember seeing some pretty ugly crap at some mixed martial arts tournaments I did back in 02 and 03. That's a whole other story. We're affiliated with SKIF shotokan dojo out of Houston. The Univ. of Houston one. Amazing group of people, I simply just don't know them very well. I'm in Houston usually every weekend anyways, guess I'll start showing up for Saturday practices. hehe. I'm a 1st kyu in skif, but just started training again a couple weeks ago after a 2 year hiatus. That 5th dan in Houston is going to eat me alive. lol. I'll have to do some hard training before I make an appearance.

Thanks Killer, I never knew that was the norm. Good to know though. I wasn't planning on bringing it up with my Sensei, but I definitely won't now. I know a couple of other students who are unhappy about not testing locally, but I'll inform them of this next time it's brought up.

First post here. I'm up pretty late tonight and came across this forum on google. =) So, question. Traditional shotokan guys, who does your tests? Let me elaborate. In my old dojo, my sensei was a 5th dan jka, and we had two other testers who were mma and tkd. (Very odd yes, but all the same, we tested locally under those who we trained with every day.) In my current dojo (skif), we test in a parent school about 1.5 hours away. This may be because my sensei (3rd dan?), is the only black belt, and he may want others opinions. At the same time, I feel like I would very much prefer to test locally. Even if it is only him. Opinions?