Do you ever see the use of a Gi and belt obsolete?

[Nidan Melbourne]

Personally I can see why people see it as obsolete. But it does allow you to train in a way that doesn’t mean you have to replace clothing every week.

Belts are only really useful to help split classes up into groupings.

[SLK59]

I practice a traditional karate-do style, and the dogi is an important part of that tradition. Wearing the dogi links me with that tradition and with my fellow traditional karateka. I don’t see any of that changing anytime soon.

While training at home on my own, I always do so in my dogi. It helps me get into the right frame of mind for training seriously. Could I just train in some old sweats instead? Sure. But for me, it just wouldn’t be the same.

Cheers,

Scott