Isn't it weird that when you get a high dan, you're too old to beat a young man with a colorful belt?
>>218256>always have an excuse as to why you lostThe perfect system
no, because the ranking denotes your place in the hierarchy and its only recently we stopped giving elders respect because they're not as physically capableof course I'm against the whole silly costume people wear as it is
>>218269I like the japanese way>Black >You're good enough to teach itAny other connotation is silly and white was always more aesthetically pleasing
>>218287Jedi doe jujitsu is a brown belt. Do you think he's not competent enough to teach white belts?
>>218337No I'm saying black was just "you're qualified to teach"Which has nothing to do with how dangerous you areThe only thing you could do at that point was he infamous and make a name for yourself
Wasn't the idea that you wore your white belt and it would just get dirty over time with experience and become black And then all this color bullshit came out
>>218356That's just krotty lore and it's not trueKano picked white because that's what color cotton is, and black because a black ribbon was already used to denote advanced level swimmers in school so japanese were already familiar with the system and it wouldn't need to be explainedIt's not muh purity, muh grass stains, muh bloodThe BS may have been partially lifted from sumo not washing their mawashi since it's so big and they use it every day they just lay it out in the sun to disinfect it between practicesThat's something never washed, up big fat asses, wrestling on dirt. Still stays white, just dirty looking white
>>218356That's a myth that came to be after colored belts became a thing.Formerly there were only white and black belts, for kyu and dan ranks respectively, then someone had the idea that having an indicator of a student's approximate skill level would be useful
>>218362High rankers wear white mawashi Only rookies wear black
>>218364That's why I always tell people I'm a black belt in sumo and don't elaborate any further
>>218256>you're too old to beat a young man with a colorful beltInstead of:>I've reached a ripe old age>I am still alive while most of my age peers are dead>Practicing martial arts made me fit enough to get to this point>My fighting days may be over but "the way" of my art kept me strong and healthyOP is a nigger and this thread is incredibly satanic. You're probably the same niggers who think they can upload their consciousness into AI so they can live forever in a CPU.
>>218287This is how it should be.
>>218400Huge jump in logic at the end there. Absolutely staggering. Lost all the previous credibility your was building up.
>>218400(you) had me until the end there. It's ok anon, this is /xs/, not /x/
1st degree you're qualified to teach yourself3rd degree you're qualified to teach otherssimple as
>when you become an army general you're too old to top the physical exams and obstacle courses >when you become a hospital director you're too old to sleep 15 hours a week like internsthe point is not for them to beat everyone up, but to teach their students, so THEM can beat others of their same age-group.
