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- From: kevin@pages.com (Kevin Sven Berg)
- Subject: Re: 10th Dan & Badass Karate (belt system)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.172402.5665@pages.com>
- Keywords: filthy, scummy, maggot-infested belts
- Sender: kevin@pages.com
- Organization: Banzai Research Institute
- References: <24227@alice.att.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:24:02 GMT
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- In article <24227@alice.att.com> garry@alice.att.com (garry hodgson) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov15.190126.206@pages.com> kevin@pages (Kevin Sven Berg)
- writes:
- > In article <1992Nov14.045400.26626@gagme.chi.il.us>
- phantom@gagme.chi.il.us
- > (Leif Ericksen) writes:
- > [...snip snip ...]
- > > True, the original belt systems was teh dirtier it was the
- > > more experience you supposedly had. THUS the tradition that YOU NEVER
- > > EVER was your belt.
- >
- > 'never wash you belt?
- >
- > This sounds like folklore, and I find it hard to believe arising from a
- > society that places great value in bathing and cleanliness.
- >
- > This is, indeed, karate tradition. One *never* washes the obi.
- > I have found this to be universal among people from various
- > japanese/okinawan styles I have known.
- >
-
- Ok, Ok! I repent :-) See what happens when you come from a Chinese MA
- tradition where belts/sashes are used to hold up your pants!
-
- Say, perhaps we can modernize this a bit: folks from punchy-styles
- should never wash their hands, or people from kicky-styles should
- never wash their feet, those head-butty types should never wash
- their face, Judoka should, well, just never wash ... ;-)
-
- Or, is that how one distinguishes rank in Greenoch?
-
- Whoops, here one comes now. Gotta go...
-
- Kevin
-
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