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is it fair to go to second dan before you are 18?  

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  1. 1. is it fair to go to second dan before you are 18?

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    • only for special surcumstances
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i was just wondering do any other clubs forbid going to second dan or higher before they are 18? a girl in one of my classes got her second dan not long ago and she is fifteen. she has only been training for 5 or so years

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i was just wondering do any other clubs forbid going to second dan or higher before they are 18? a girl in one of my classes got her second dan not long ago and she is fifteen. she has only been training for 5 or so years

Well...second dan in 5 years is really few...specially for a fifteen ager...she's probably a genius or where you live they are not so picky as in Italy. Me, with the same years of training i'm still a brown belt even if my instructor say i've good qualities...:karate:

By the way...in Italy until you reach 18 you cant test for first dan.

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i was just wondering do any other clubs forbid going to second dan or higher before they are 18? a girl in one of my classes got her second dan not long ago and she is fifteen. she has only been training for 5 or so years

Well...second dan in 5 years is really few...specially for a fifteen ager...she's probably a genius or where you live they are not so picky as in Italy. Me, with the same years of training i'm still a brown belt even if my instructor say i've good qualities...:karate:

By the way...in Italy until you reach 18 you cant test for first dan.

No it has been lowered to 16 (in FILJKAM) but then you need to stay at least 3 years as shodan before you can test for nidan. So in Italy it would be impossible.

Are you with FILJKAM Jade?

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Yes...and actually i was not sure about 18 or 16 as the minimum age....but with our federation would be reallly impossible to be a second dan in 5 years... :o

"With a bit of imagination, kata can be deadly." - Hidy Ochiai

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2nd dan in 5 years, comes with the Happy Meal, no substitutions for the beverage. If you want milk you've got to pay up.

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The earliest you could do it here would be 18, and that's if you received your shodan at 16 (minimum age + 2 year requirement). I don't know if there is also an age requirement for nidan.

Jarrett Meyer


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Posted

You can test for BB at any age with us, however ur grading time between 1st and 2nd dan [normally 2 years] is doubled... so unless u get ur BB REALLY young, u generally dont make it to 2nd dan that early on.

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You can't test for shodan unless you are 13 in our dojo , 18 is the minimum for nidan .

Is it fair to become nidan at age 15 after 5 years for training ???????? HE^L NO . It took me 6 years to become shodan !

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It wuold take 5.5 years for us to achieve i-dan [2nd]....

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