when are some of you ppl gonna wake up?

Question

i keep reading 3 years to get a black belt?some say 5?you cant possibly be a real black belt in 3-5 years.rank and reality are completely different.

i dont think some of you are reading the question properley or your just not putting enough thought into the question or the answer.
by the way h.cox i also happen to know what im talking about if you read some of my answers you would already know that.i dont just say what ppl want to hear.dai sensei wayne.37 years in ma.

wouldn't that make it a tatoo of your ugly empty head?

besides which.iv'e been insulted by ppl with an iq of more than 1 so you've got no chance.

Answer 1

Sounds like somebody doesn't wanna practice.

Answer 2

All a black belt means is that you are an advanced beginner. The learning and training never stop. In Korea, a person can get a black belt in two years. In my neck of the woods, it is roughly three times the length of time. My instructor is a 6th dan and a hall of fame member. He is always open to learning new things and tweaking techniques to make them more useful.

The main characteristic of a good martial artist is humility. Being able to keep an open mind and to change whenever the situation deems necessary. AND being able to accept criticism and use it to grow stronger. I have been training for eleven years and am a second dan. I leave every class with something new to work on. The day you stop learning and breaking down the techniques you might as well hang up your belt. Then you are not much more than a robot.

So, yes. A black belt in 3-5 years. A LOT longer to master the techniques.

Answer 3

Geez...what planet are you from?? This is as ridiculous as people saying that they got a Black Belt in a year...it's just opposite. What is your definition of a black belt?? You must think someone has to become a monk and study nothing but Martial Arts for his entire life to get a black belt.
All a Black Belt signifies is that the person has learned all the BASICS of his style and is now prepared to begin mastering the advanced techniques and teaching basics to others. It does not mean that the person suddenly becomes a "Ninja Killer". A Black Belt cannot levitate himself, cannot split atoms with punches nor is he undefeatable- EVER! There is no rank that makes you suddenly into a movie character.
MOST schools train on a "3 year system" where the minimum length of study between white belt and black belt is 3 years. In my style, there is a minumum 3 months study between kyu ranks 9-3... that is 3 months between 9th and 8th kyu, 3 more months between 8th and 7th etc until you reach 3rd kyu. Then, between 3rd and 2nd kyu is 6 months, another 65 months between 2nd and 1st kyu, and finally another 6 months between 1st kyu and 1st Dan Black Belt. This is a VERY typical system.
As a matter of qualifying myself here, my system is Seishinkai Shotokan Karate systems...look it up if you would like. It is very respectable and certainly not known as a "McDojo". The founder, Malcolm Phipps, studied directly under Kanazawa-sensei and Asano-sensei, and teaches my father, Ed Cox, directly. I can trace my lineage back to the founder of Shotokan Karate, Gichin Funakoshi, in 4 steps. Basically, I know what I'm talking about.
Bottom line...you must think that Black Belt means you are some god-like being. All being a Black Belt means that you have "mastered" the basics and are ready to advance further.
Hope this clears up some things for you...
Sensei Cox

Answer 4

First off, theres no question that there are belt factories out there, not just in TKD but all martial arts styles.
Secondly, how long until you can be a "real black belt?" I always thought it was aobut knowledge and skill, not senority or length of service.
Third to the white belt above, Sparring is not the same af fighting. Sparring has set rules about what you can and cant do, and there is no way you should have been sparring as a whitebelt in the first place.

Answer 5

A black belt in what? With enough talent, a person who trained in Judo every day for 3 years would have every chance of becoming a black belt in that time. If you're only going once or twice a week for 1.5 hours a time, then obviously it will take longer to master the techniques.
Getting to first dan is not a big deal in countries like Japan, where Judo is a national pastime. It's the higher dans that require more time and dedication.

Answer 6

People are afaird of truth. They doesn't want to see all time they invest into and all bragging they did about belt turn out to be nothing special.

That's why I hate belt system! It make peolpe a huge sissy and coward. They're too scare to prove anything once they got their hands on black belt because they want to keep the image that they're all mythical and immortal. My belif is this is due to people simply want to do rush training to grab black belt as fast as possible and in end the black belt have no meaning at all.

People today doesn't like to prove anything at all, so they simply perfer to have certificate or something else to do the talking for them. It'll stop when people start to get motivated to show what they're capable of. I really don't know when that will be, especially with how most of wolrd are starting to turn so commericalized.

Answer 7

to be a black belt takes many years of training this much is true...but it is also true that you can become very skilled in any art if you train full time for 3-5 years. i think we all know that to be a black belt you must demonstrate a masterery of your discipline but it also takes maturity, alot of clubs out there have promotions and guarantees that you can get your black belt in 1 year or something...all of these clubs are so watered down and quite frankly they are jokes. i prefer it to be a long and difficult journey to become a black belt in any art...my first martial art i tried was shotokan karate and there were no black belts even though some people had been training for 4 years. the sensei would not award the belt until you were a true master....called me old fasion buts thats how it should be.

Answer 8

What ever.... I can prove that wrong right now!!! Go down to your local Taekwondo gym (pretty much any will do) Unless you found "Teh R34l TKD" which some will claim on here lol. Ask the instructor for a sign up form and contract. Give him the first and last months payment and come to class once or twice a week for 1.5-2 years. You are now a black belt!!!! Don't worry about failing your testing, it just doesn't happen. Can't complete the form without doing it 3 times? no problem! Can't break through a board without using a hammer fist? NO PROBLEM! Can't remember half of the **** you were supposed to? NO WORRIES!!!! Here in TKD, we are ALL black belts!!!!

So sign right up kids, to the fastest McDonalds like art on the earth. If you sign up now, I will throw in 2 weeks at a reduced rate! Here you will learn one step (dance) sparring on what amounts to be the most friendly enemy you will ever encounter! Along with that you will learn ball room tap dance sparring with enough gear on to resemble the state puffed marshmallow man. Self defence? NO PROBLEM!!! We have that too and will teach you "Numchuck"!

remember! our art is original, and has been around for 4 thousand years!!! not 200 like most think... thats BS!!!!

Taekwon Taekwon TAEKWONDO!!!!!!



*end sarcasm...*

Answer 9

In response to Hood 12....

I got kicked out of a USTF Tae Kown Do dojo, cause I beat the 4th degree black belt instructor in a sparring match in my second week as a white belt. Hit him with a few things he had never seen before. USTF is nothing more than a family fitness organization that tries to keep small children from getting fat, and they should not be allowed to call themselves administrators of bona fide martial arts.

Answer 10

In Tae Kwon Do, a 1st degree black belt is called "cho dan" which means beginning level. 3-5 years is long enough to become a beginner.

Answer 11

While I agree that they are being given away to freely ( black -belts ), I must also state that a belt does not a fighter make .