LoneWolf Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 Do you think that wen you reach black belts last kyu, you've just reached the end? I dont kow, but this idea makes me wana cry LoneWolf Cry in the dojo,laught on the battelfield.
karatekid1975 Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 No way! It's just the beginning. Here's a saying that my old instructor from TSD used to say: "Color belts learn the basics, black belts learn how to USE the basics." Laurie F
Guest Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 A school that doesn't teach you how to use the information given to you, at any level be it sho dan or ju kyu isn't teaching properly. If I went to a school and they told me that I had to pay 36 more tuition payments before I am taught to use the basics then I'd find another school. Oh yeah ... and sho dan isn't the end. It's on to ni dan after that
Sho-ju Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 Funakoshi himself was only a 5th dan. Black belt is not the marker everyone thinks it to be.
G95champ Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 No read Funakoshi's 20 preceps one of them says it takes a life time to learn karate and then you are not done. (General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory."
fireka Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 and while your at it, go to the thread on the forum called 'black belt' and see what i had to say about it. because im smart and am worshipped as a god in three third-world nations. "i could dance like that!.......if i felt like it...." -Master Betty
Shotokan_Fighter Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 i gotta say that when you reach black belt it is just the begining "When I fight, I fight with my heart,and soul. My heart, and soul is Shotokan Karate."Shotokan_fighters creed"karate has to come natural in a fight, if you have to think about using karate in a fight, you will loose the fight"3rd kyu brown belt - shotokan karate
Pacificshore Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 It's most certainly the beginning, but can be the end if you let it Di'DaDeeeee!!!Mind of Mencia
GrrrArg Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 I'll let you know when I get there...but I suspect that its just the begining of the start of the begining of the begining of the begining, you get the picture.
Kirves Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 When you are below black belt, you are a student of the art. When you are a black belt, you practice the art. Would you want to stop just when you learned the basics so you could start practicing?
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