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The Question Is How Long Does It Take To Earn A Black Belt?

How long it takes to earn a black belt is one of the more interesting questions. People ask it when they first walk into a martial arts dojo. Doesn't matter if it is Karate, or Kung Fu, or Aikido, or whatever...that question is there.

Now, before I tell you something absolutely fascinating about this, I have to qualify myself. I don't do this to toot my horn, but rather to establish a solid footing for what I am about to tell you. You will find that there is direct correlation to the question we are asking here.

I studied traditional Karate some forty years ago, and have studied just about every art to come down the pike since then. And, as soon as I would learn a martial art, I would turn around and teach it to somebody else. That is the best way to understand something, you see: turn around and share it with somebody else, put yourself on the spot.

And, running out of martial arts systems to teach, I began reconfiguring the knowledge I had learned. I created different methods for teaching this knowledge, and inherent in these methods was a simple concern. Can I get somebody to the rank of black belt faster?

I condensed styles, realigned methods, compared and contrasted until I was cross-eyed and dizzy. I set up different arrangements of basic movements, established different ways of doing training drills and techniques. And, of course, I did kumite until the cows came home and went to bed.

Over time, I fair well established what, exactly, the knowledge was that made a person into a black belt. This is a concrete block of actual knowledge, and I found something interesting happened. I found that if you taught people the actual knowledge, they didn't require as much experience.

Yes, the fellow had to get down and experience the reality, he had to get a fair sampling of bruises and toss downs. But he didn't need as much of this 'experience' as one would suspect. In fact, he needed about one tenth the experience of what people expected.
In fact, as one accumulated knowledge, the percentage of hard drilling dropped off greatly.

Don't get me wrong, it takes sweat and intense work, and, most important, it takes exactly the correct amount of right information, which is something that, unfortunately, none of the martial arts systems possess today. But, if you do manage to get the right data the question of how long does it take to earn a black belt today requires a much shorter answer.

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how can i finish this sentence? Studded belt case...(russel crow was charged for wearing a studded belt)?What?

this isn't a real case

how do i finish this sentence?
it doesn't matter if you don't know the whole story, just tell me what i have to write, i don't know what it means

The argument submitted by the prosecution that Russell Crow breached section 6 of The Control of Weapons Act (1990) has merit, if one takes the literal meaning of the definition of what a weapon is. However, their argument is flawed by the fact that, under the circumstances

I'm not sure what you mean, but I'll give it a go.

Russell Crowe was charged with wearing a studded belt.