using your level as a,guide as to what to learn next is the same as wearing you level round your waist.
so it means nothing much at all then,
That is one of the stupidest comments I've ever seen and after reading your stuff that's saying something. Getting belts isn't a competition it's a personal progression. The point of them is to show that the person knows the moves they've been taught and can do them. You seem like someone who may not wear their medals but you'll go round telling everyone you've won them
the two are related if the,test is meaningless against any real world situation then the belt is meaningless, so people are,wearing a meaningless badge of,rank, and that is peculiar
You are equating it to a trophy. Think of it more like which league you play in. In pool, I would be slaughtered in the "a" flight. So, I might play in the "c" flight, where I have a chance at competing. That flight is equivalent to a rank. A yellow belt (in my curriculum) wouldn't be as skilled as a brown belt. Think of the yellow belt as the "c" flight. They might post the flights on the wall at an open tournament, so everyone can figure out who to play. And, to make it easier, they might give folks name tags with their flight printed on it.
Sooo...according to you anything below black belt means you're not very good yet you haven't put in enough years to get one...hmm okay
that's the purpose of the test, the purpose of wearing your test results round your waist hasn't been established
If the test is meaningless against any real world situation then the belt is meaningless real world situation. That just means that's not what the belt tells us. It still tells us whatever the test told us (they know a certain kata, or whatever). The belt isn't what doesn't answer the question you want it to - the test is. Change the test, the belt tells you something different. Remove the belt, and the test is unchanged.
they are a trophy, they are given out at ceremony, with lot of bowing, what else would you call them?
Actually, it has. You just weren't listening when people answered that question.
Sure it has you just didnt like the answer
A symbol. A grade. A score. An indicator.
Yeah it has been answered. So people know who the higher ranks are so people know what they need to be learning next, so people can see who the beginners are, so people from outside the club can judge people they don't know based on their rank, so people can work with people there own level and get more out of it than working with a beginner. Enough for you yet? ...probably not
yes that's what it tells the instructor, but all other sports seem to manage with out everyone,wearing a,badge, but people,arnt getting them embellished with embroidery for the benefit of the instructors are they,
your trying to split the,difference between a,symbol of achievement. And,a trophy of achievement, really?
Either you're a troll or just dumb. Martial arts has a huge amounts of techniques and forms. Rank is a way to separate the material and divide it out so people can learn easier. In swimming as you like to talk about everyone learns to swim the same way there's no higher up swimming moves that a beginner can't understand. But in martial arts there's stuff a beginner physically can't learn straight away so they have to build it up slowly. Blimey this is hard work I feel like a teacher explaining to a 5 year what 1+1 is
The embroidery part is foreign to me. That's just a thing some folks or associations do, and not relevant below BB, so far as I know.
Nope. I was pointing out that it is a symbol, and that's only one thing it serves as. A trophy, so far as i can think of, serves no other purpose. My BB certificate is like the trophy. I keep it at home, unless someone asks to see it.
