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Officially a Black Belt

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Black is an awesome color to wear!  Here are some pictures from tonight’s ceremony.

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  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2006
    Cool!

    I know there are many black "levels" (what are they called? "dan"?), but I wonder if they are distinguishable (is that a word?) on the belt, with stripes or some kind of markers? Or are they just something that the owner needs to know about?
  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2006
    Black belt? It is terrible!

    I was not able to take off the black belt though I was learning the judo when I
    was a student.
  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2006
    CONGRATULATIONS!! With pride and love,
  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2006
    Congratulations Sara, we are all proud of you. It was a very long road to get there but I knew you would finish it. Way to go.

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2006
    Thanks all!

    Color belts ranks are called "Kyu"
    Black belts ranks are called "Dan"

    So I'm now 1st Dan or Shodan. There are 10 degrees of black belt.

    At this dojo which is FSKA (other dojos, like JKA, may do it differently), 1st - 3rd Dan is just a black belt with your name and club written on the belt in Japanese. 4th and higher, it's written in yellow.

    You may have noticed that i don't have the red lettering. This dojo's policy is for the black belts to train for an additional year before the lettering, so you don't just get the black belt and quit. Karate is a way of life, so i'm fine waiting for another year to get the red lettering =)
  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2006
    Aha, so now we find out how you really got the new Program Management job!

    Congratulations :-)
  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2006
    Congrats!
  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2006
    Contrats!

    Maybe I can hire you to beat up my older sister who took up Akkido when I finally got big enough to hold my own against her. What a cheater.
  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2006
    So, one wonders how things are going...
  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2006
    Congratulations!

    Keep it up. Your training only begins at Shodan.

    After another one or two years of your training as a black belt, you may try to learn other styles of karate to expand your knowledge in karate-do.

    Being a Shotokan, you may look into other systems like Shorin-ryu and Shito-ryu. You will find them complement nicely to your Shotokan system.
  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2006
    Last week, Clint published the Coding4Fun Holiday Gift Guide 2006 and I spammed some internal Microsoft