To Be or Not to Be a Dan Grade

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To get your BLACK BELT or to BE a BLACK BELT are two very different things. In the morning of your Dan Grading you get out of Bed a brown belt, if you grade and are successful you will go to bed that night a BLACK BELT.

What has changed nothing, you have come to the end of your training as a KYU grade and now can begin to train and learn as a Dan grade. Shodan in English is First Level, This is a new beginning of training as a Dan grade.

You have heard me saw he or she has got their black belt but you also have heard me say he or she is a dan grade.To get a black belt is okay, you have put in the hard training and got your BLACK BELT, but if you stop training , you stop being a BLACK BELT.

To be a black belt you must train, to me a Dan grade is someone who continues to train hard and still wants to learn and improve their Wado Karate

Rant bt Sensei Robert McGrath