Nafuda Kake

[Shizentai]

Friday night I walked into the dojo and saw that someone had put my name up on the Nafuda kake (the board with names and ranks). I thought to myself, ah, It's so nice to be welcomed in this new honbu where I have been training. I've only been here about a year, and I know they don't just add people right away, as the board only gets updated once in a very long while.

Yes, It felt good to see my name up there with everyone else's .... until I realized that they had put my name under sho-kyu. I guess I forgot to show them my shodan certificate in their organization from 2005. hahaha, whoops. I guess I'm officially a whitebelt again.

Anyway, do you guys use nafuda kake in your dojo? How often do you update yours?

[sensei8]

Yes, we use the Nafuda kake. In my dojo, we manage it every 3 months; it's the OCD in me. In our Hombu, it's managed annually after our annual testing cycle in June/July!!

[RJCKarate]

We do use one in our Dojo. I'm a little more OCD though I guess, if someone is promoted, I update the board. Might be different if there were hundreds of names up there. We don't include white belts.

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