Learning alot to learning nothing at all

[Samurai Shotokan]

Anyway im an orange belt in Shotokan when i was at a club BBQ i was talking with the instuctors. I was saying how I learned alot yet i felt i know nothing andmy instuctors were saying the same thing like when you get to black its really just the start of learning karate.

 

So anyone else feel like this before?

 

sorry this could of been posted before but i didnt see anything resembling it

Edited October 26, 2004 by Samurai Shotokan

[tommarker]

it's not that you're not learning anything up to black belt... it's just that as you learn more, your eyes open up to all the things around you that you didn't notice (or couldn't notice) and you see how much more you have to go.

 

It's like getting over a hill only to find a bigger, steeper hill!

[Master Jules]

Yes, black belt really is just the beginning.....and the farther you go...the more youll realize how little you know.......

[Shorinryu Sensei]

Anyway im an orange belt in Shotokan when i was at a club BBQ i was talking with the instuctors. I was saying how I learned alot yet i felt i know nothing andmy instuctors were saying the same thing like when you get to black its really just the start of learning karate.

 

So anyone else feel like this before?

 

sorry this could of been posted before but i didnt see anything resembling it

 

Don't feel alone bud. I've been doing the same art for 30 years as of this January, and I'm constantly learning and discovering new things about it! It is an amazing journey full of discovery of "self". You're never finished, so just sit back and enjoy the ride! I know I do.

[Sasori_Te]

Now you're really learning. Most people don't realize how little they know.

[DLopez]

It's a normal feeling.

 

I got that feeling when I started working right out of college with a brand spanking new bachelor of science in electical engineering degree. You could say my BSEE degree was my 1st degree black belt in engineering.

 

Once your eyes have "opened" to just how much there is to know about a particular subject, you have a definite feeling of "smallness".

 

I don't know about everyone else, but that just makes me even hungrier to know what I know that I don't know.

[Bleeding Lion]

You know, thats a great feeling imo. I started goju ryu a month ago and of course i feel the same way. on the other hand however, there is this dude in my dojo, pretty cool, but he came to practice only like 5 times with no prior martial arts experience, and he feels like he can already fight people in the streets...

 

Knowing you dont know is the foundation of knowledge.

 

He who does not know he doesnt know is a fool.

 

(forgot who said this).

[Shane]

You just have to keep tracking, and train hard. There is just so much info out there and you dont even get a real look at until your somewhere at the black level. Basically you learn all of these things to reach black but the biggest challenge is figureing out what works for you and what your prefered version of the techniques you have learned. Normally you have the general idea of your prefered methods etc. around the black level. And once that happens your ready to really start learning.

 

Keep Tracking

[MenteReligieuse]

Black belt is just the end of your "beginner" status, not the end of your learning.

 

Take shaolin as an example (there are no belt system in traditional shaolin but that is not the point), no one has ever mastered the whole shaolin system because it is too vast, so one should never see his "student" status ever be accomplished.

 

I am sure it is true for many other arts.

[ncole_91]

I guess you can kind of compare it to school. After you are done high school, like your black belt, you just start learning, then when you are at university and/or college, you start getting your dans..... if that makes sense lol

 

Nicolas