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Originally Posted by Chris Correia
A lot of the debate points depend on what one considers to be the meaning of a black belt (or any rank).
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Here here. My Aikido dojo now has white, blue brown and black belts - our Sensei has conceded that north america is a very "must-see-results" type of society.
But prior to that he used the two-colour system: you had a white belt until your sensei felt you had learned enough to get your black belt, and nothing in between. That's it. You were either a white belt (for a long, long time) or black belt. Senior students recalled coming into the class for the first time and getting tossed around by a "white belt".
I think it'd be nice to get back to that in some cases...
