B"H

Dear Ray,

It is not amazing at all to be a "black belt" if you train hard and
seriously but if you fail for a Pinan Kata on Sho-dan level, then it would
indeed be amazing to be a "black belt" !

Dovid Pfeiff
Wado Ryu Israel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Lamonde" <raylamonde@...>
To: <wadokarate@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:56 PM
Subject: [Wado Forum] Re: Grades


> I want to know what some of you think about grading. I took my shodan
> test and failed it last year and now I will have to take it again son. I
> think that it is amazng to be a black belt and that is why I am dong it
but
> I dont think that it was really fair that I failed the first time. I
think
> that you should get your level depending on how good you are at karate
> especially fighting and not on wether you pass a test or not. Like I had
to
> do pinan yondan and I mixed it up
> with some other katas and so it was a whole lot longer than it is
> supposed to be but I think that the way that I did it was even in some
ways
> better because it was longer and had more stuff in it and so I shouldn't
> have been given such a hard time about it. There are certain people in my
> dojo that look really good when they are doing katas but they are not as
> good at karate as I am and so I dont think that it is fair.
>
> "Dont concentrate on teh finger or you will miss all the heavenly
> glory." Bruce Lee.
>
> Ray Lamonde
>
>
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