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- From: gbaker@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Greg baker)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Tae Kwon Do, getting a Black Belt, etc...
- Message-ID: <5DLNuB4w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 11:33:15 MST
- References: <1992Nov20.133134.1448@alw.nih.gov>
- Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- - If you made it to red in a year, black in 6 or 7 months might not
- - be out of the question. I've seen the double-dan test before,
- - but only in the case of people with dan ranking from some other
- - organization upon joining a new school. You take an abbreviated
- - exam to get a provisional belt which allows you to get up to
- - speed in the new environment. Then you confirm (or lose) it
- - with a full test six months later. Another device is to require
- - a test for "black stripe" between red and black. This is how it
- - was done in the school where I trained, and I guess you could
- - say that it amounted to taking two black belt exams.
- - --
- - Richard A. Drury
- - drury@helix.nih.gov
-
- In my school we have a black stripe between red belt and 1st dan. We
- also have stripes between every belt, green stripe, blue stripe,
- etc..(I've seen schools use a yellow stripe as well.) Some schools use
- 1-3 stripes depending on the marks received at the testing.
-
- To get the second dan (and every dan above that to at least 4th) its 4
- tests every 5-6 mths. ugh
-
- .greg.
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