training under the grandmaster

[parkerlineage]

Humble one, you are.

Is that sarcasm I detect?...

My black belt still only has one stipe on it, I'm about to grade to third dan. I haven't bothered putting the seond stripe on and will probably have the first one removed.

There was a black belt at our dojo who got his second dan at the same class I got my first. He didn't put his second stripe on for a month or so, and then one day, he got to class, and my sensei gave him a new belt, this one with two stripes sewn on, and told him, "Wear this - you earned it." So I guess it depends on one's instructor. Although, when I told him I wasn't going to wear rank, he said he respected that. Maybe he just likes me more...hehe

[bushido_man96]

Humble one, you are.

Is that sarcasm I detect?...

My black belt still only has one stipe on it, I'm about to grade to third dan. I haven't bothered putting the seond stripe on and will probably have the first one removed.

There was a black belt at our dojo who got his second dan at the same class I got my first. He didn't put his second stripe on for a month or so, and then one day, he got to class, and my sensei gave him a new belt, this one with two stripes sewn on, and told him, "Wear this - you earned it." So I guess it depends on one's instructor. Although, when I told him I wasn't going to wear rank, he said he respected that. Maybe he just likes me more...hehe

No, no sarcasm intended.