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    Ive gotten blue belt with Judo a few years ago
    but im kickboxing for half a year now. plus i got quite a few experiences with real battle; a friend of mine and i usually fought just for fun, and idont mean fighting-throw-the-other-on-the-ground, but real punches in face and knees etc.. That quite nice to do, when your all messed up, in pain, and to KNOW youre not the only one. Its only fun to do that with someone with the same strength. But right now hes gone for a year, hes in Japan and learn Kendo there. Will be fun when hes back: kendo vs kickboxing
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    i always say "anyone can fight and kill with a weapon or a french loaf, but to weild a weapon is what your learning". it's surpriseing how shocked people are when you say that you parry and block with swords lol.

    the mix of martial arts studants we get are rfom all over....im not saying they are all bad....but lol
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    I go with some others who put Tae-Kwon-Do. I thought I was real good until I came to be partenerendeered up with an ACTUAL LIVE KOREAN. Crap, those guys can move, fast.

    Oh yeah then I got bored and quit and decided to join the neighbourhood hoons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BatChao
    I used to do Jiujitsu when I was a lot younger... I got to blue belt, but then stopped... I can't remember why I stopped.
    I took Karate and stopped at a blue belt, hmmm *Its a small world after all*

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    I used to take Karate. I got up to a purple belt before stopping.

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    No, I haven't taken any classes, but I can do some Aikido.

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    Default purple belt?

    since when is there a purple belt in karate? its just the same with judo right? white-yellow-orange-green-blue-brown-black?
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    Quote Originally Posted by P8
    since when is there a purple belt in karate? its just the same with judo right? white-yellow-orange-green-blue-brown-black?

    There's a purple belt in Tae Kwon Do, if that means anything... I wish I had gotten to a purple belt, such a cool color.
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    The level of all belts is different between each form, and even amoung the sub forms of each type of martial arts.

    As for the TaeKwonDo I take currently, it's white, yellow, orange, blue, green, purple, brown, red, dark blue, stripe, black belt for thier order. But every form is different, some forms even have thier own belts (like stripe for my form and dark blue, those 2 generally aren't in other forms.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by P8
    since when is there a purple belt in karate? its just the same with judo right? white-yellow-orange-green-blue-brown-black?
    In my karate class it went white, yellow, gold, orange, green, blue, purple, brown, red, half-red-half-black, black.

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    Then both your Sensei were stoned because my class was
    white-yellow-orange-blue-green-brown-black,
    first blue then green

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    yeah but i was talking specifically about karate.

    by the way, no offends to all kinds of martial arts, but the most of them doesnt make you very strong. Its more like finding peace with your inner self and its intimitating for people who know your doing it. Like: oeeeeeeee, i wouldnt want to fight him, hes doing karate for 5 years now!
    but usually, you can only use karate, tae-kwon-do or judo or something, when the other is using it too. However, the basics can be done usually. Like tackling, simple punches, and when youre quite good, maybe kicking.
    But all that flashy spinning kicking etc. cant ever be done in a real fight.

    but like i said before, it can be really good to find peace with yourself. i think thats the reason why i choose for martial arts too

    Quote Originally Posted by TasteyPies
    Then both your Sensei were stoned because my class was
    white-yellow-orange-blue-green-brown-black,
    first blue then green
    Im quite sure it was the as with Judo. And its green-blue there. maybe its because of country difference? i live in the netherlands, hmm, come to think of it, maybe we WERE stoned , nah, i didnt do it back then.

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    Specifically about karate eh? Well I took karate and it went: white, orange, purple, blue, green, brown, stripe, strip, black.

    They also had other restrictions like you had to be 13 for brown, and either 18 or REALLY good to be black. One of my teachers was a 4th degree black and he was only like 15/16.
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    My Karate class had the belts as White, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Brown, Red, Black. The Red was like a Black for anyone who was under 16.
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    i am amazed by how many of you quit after a little go or a few months.....do any of you know how much this pi***s off teachers who have to keep these classes running, the teachers who spend time with you teaching you what to do only for you to up and leave quickly when that teacher could have been spending the time better with the studants who needed it and WANTED to learn. let alone those studants who rely on you to come and keep the clases running and rely on there being other people to learn against....and your effectivly robbing them of time and chances.
    We have had many people who turn up boasting and bragging with all their assureances and lie's....they seek all the attention, they shout about how they want to learn and you have to spend more time with them to get them up to speed just so they can take part, that takes a whole lesson where NOONE else whos already joined teh class gets any contact with the tutor, only for them to make a fuss and dissapear teh following week or however long after.
    As a tutor this is very tireing and frustrating, being aware of the need to keep the numbers up so the course will continue and so teh dedacated studants have someone to spar with....but we take you in, are kind to you, build you up, GIVE you our skills and time and life, and then you run away and we start again only for the same thing to happen again and again.
    Im not having a go at anyone......just asking people to think of those they have put out when they decide to quit.

    We dont bother with belts or badges etc, it's just a tool of regognition and actually doesnt count for anything considering many of the people ive met who achived teh highst levels were terrible. we teach three forms of sword, if you want to learn any other weapon just ask, but the proof is in the pudding. if you can go out and win, or if your loosing badly all the time to everyone, you know weather your doing well or not. There isnt points in the fights, if youve killed your opponant he's dead, as simple as that, even though you pulled your blow you still did it at full speed and landed it and it's pretty obvious that your opponants head will have been taken off if you had teh intention of making it real and killing them.

    ive done it for 22 years, but that isnt an example of my ability, that can only sum up my experiance, my ability is displayed in those ive tought and how well i fight. also while we only teach our own form of swordfighting, it can be taken against ANY other form of combat or weapon, if someone from somewhere else wants to use a samurai sword or even do judo against one of our studants...they can as long as they ask the person involved lol

    age limits...these are really funny when it comes to martial arts. as a child i could and did defeat grown opponants cleanly and fairly, they loved teh fact a little kid had beaten them in some perverse form of pride lol.....but in marital arts, little kids cannot do the same thing, they arent strong enough or tall enough etc, the idea of them doing it is...well odd to me
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