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There must be all kinds of much better and meaningful ways to honour a foreign dignitary than handing out ranks and titles that have no value except to a select few people. If Putin has never practised TKD I wonder what the man thinks of being given an honourary rank. Perhaps it was just to thank him for promoting or supporting TKD in Russia or just because Putin is known to be a sportsman with an interest in martial arts in general.

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Be fun to put all the "Honorary" BBs into a tournament amongst themselves. I'm guessing, but I imagine ole' Vlad would finish pretty high up the ladder........................

"We don't have any money, so we will have to think" - Ernest Rutherford

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Our Soke was dead against Honorary BB's of any type. His opinion on this type of award was..."NO!!"

Interesting!

This brings to my mind the promotion of sensei Nakayama from 9th dan to 10th dan after his passing. I by all means believe he was deserving of the rank, but I've often wondered how he himself would have felt about such a promotion.

To search for the old is to understand the new.

The old, the new, this is a matter of time.

In all things man must have a clear mind.

The Way: Who will pass it on straight and well?

- Master Funakoshi

Posted

Key To The City or an Honorary Black Belt?? I'll take the Key To The City...every time!!

:)

**Proof is on the floor!!!

Posted
Our Soke was dead against Honorary BB's of any type. His opinion on this type of award was..."NO!!"

Interesting!

This brings to my mind the promotion of sensei Nakayama from 9th dan to 10th dan after his passing. I by all means believe he was deserving of the rank, but I've often wondered how he himself would have felt about such a promotion.

I suppose that he wouldn't have liked it; appreciative of the honor, but not overly excited about it.

:)

**Proof is on the floor!!!

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