Shadow90

I once read that if you want to be a great martial artist then you should not care about materials. With that they mean you shouldnt care much about stuff... like belts. I read this a lot in books this does not only count for MA but for a lot of other things too. These belt gradings are stupid... if you are a bb or a ''high'' belt, people will think you can do everything, and if you make a mistake they will think; ''Lol even I can do that, Im SO better than him/her''. Everyone makes mistakes. Or some people have high belts and cant fight at all :s Ssome of them even dont have respects for others; ''Hey look I'm a BROWN BELT YOU'RE A PUNY BLUE BELT!'' Maybe they are good at kata and such, but the respect is gone. People kinda lose themselves because of this belt stuff. They will see themselves as weak because someone younger has a higher belt, or if they're a high belt they will think they can do everything and get too cocky... Dont take this is an offense... In my opinion these gradings just ruin whats martial arts is really about; Respect, dicipline and honor, you should be humble and friendly. Karate (or any other martial arts) is not about stupid colored belts. What annoys me the most are those little kids with bb... Even though I do not care much about belts, I do get annoyed by that. I think of my sensei who is friendly and does his best to teach us something about karate and much more. And then I see some 9 year old snickering at everyone and acts though all the time... It insults many sensei's who trained more than 5+... no wait make that 10+ years for their black belts. Even if you know every move of your style, and you are really good at sparring and such doesnt mean you deserve your black belt. As I said you should be respectfull, honorbale humble friendly and much more, and not some arrogant jerk... ***Also note that English is my 3rd language ''>_>

And how can kids like that get their black belt? I mean in Holland (as far as I know) every dojo I know you have to be at least 14 for your brown belt and 17(?) for a bb. Thats why we have the slip system for the kids. If they do their exam and dont pass it they will get a slip instead of a belt. The kids and their parents will be statisfied then. For the kids its as great as a new color belt.

If I ever enter a competition and have 10 yeard old ''black belts'' as a judge I will walk away immideatly Seriously....

'O_o Mine was ''heee''. I dont like noise really so I didnt liked this kiai stuff. My sensei said that I sounded too cute and I need to do something about it. I dont want to be cute >.< Now I love it really. Its ''HAY''. Its short and, now I am the loudest one in my class.

LOL, that is outstanding. You know that is total junk. Jigoro Kano introduced the belt system in the early 1900's. This whole thing is an urban legend and has no basis in reality. John I think hes just trying to say that belt ranking doesnt matter much...

Mine goes like this: White Yellow (8 Kyu) Orange (7 Kyu) Green (6 Kyu) Blue (5 Kyu) Blue II (4 Kyu) Brown (3 Kyu) Brown II (2 Kyu) Brown III (1 Kyu) Black (1st Dan) etc

Wado-Ryu and Wado-Kai are the same thing. Wado is Karate... Is this what you wanted to know?

Yay, thanks for the advice.

Katas are a great workout though... hmmm I think too much

Hmm well the green belt is kinda good with kata's, she won some prizes... but she never does sparring. Actually, what is more important; sparring or kata? I know theyre both really important but I thought the main reason for any martial art is sparring, to get harder and stuff.

Wow... Its real...

What a hard decision... Im more speed then strenght, but I think thats just because Im a female...

Dont they call dojo's like that McDojo's? http://hometown.aol.com/nbdma/images/mcdojo.jpg Funny picture

Nope, they used to do it.

I would go 3 times a week, 5 hours. But I dont have the money so its just one time a week, one hour.