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Can anyone tell me what are testing/promotion requirements for ATA. Do you have to start at white belt and move up? Please give a brief description of the rank system. Thanks

I recently joined a local ATA and enjoy the training and I get a good workout, but I agree that as long as you pay your money you will get promoted to the next belt regardless of your performance. I think they believe that if you don't promote someone to the next level they will quit and there goes the $. I was very excited when I started training, but after I started it was very clear that the main vocus was on something different that learning martail art. Let me explain, I was a white belt training on whitebelt form, self defense and weapons, but one person was a orange belt and another a yellow belt and we were all learning the same thing? The shocking thing was that they could barely perform the basic moves. We all three tested on white belt requirements at the last promotion even though they where orange and yellow. We were all three promoted, orange belt for me, yellow belt and camo for the other two and even though they are high rank we all now training on orange belt requirements, can someone help me understand this?