I want to come back....Obviously, I forgot alot of the moves, forms and techniques..But i Know That With Practice, Everything will come back...Question: Will i have to start again as a White Belt ? or Will the INstructor Let me work my way up to Black in a shorter amount of time???
2007-01-18 12:43:43 · 13 answers · asked by chi_south_kid1 1 in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
Or perhaps i can start as a Black Belt??
2007-01-18 12:44:30 · update #1
Once you are a black belt you are always a black belt regardless of whether or not you remember all of the techniques. It's like saying you got your PHD but have not been to school in 8 years so you will have to start back in grade 9 before you can get you masters again....Don't listen to Kumo and the rest. You earned it and it means something just as a degree in school does. You tell a 6 th degree black belt his rank means nothing. And try to use the excuse he hasn't trained in a few years...You were the one in the dojo everynight training not them. Lets see if they say the same thing if they get their black belts in anything.
If you are getting back into it for health and fitness and you don't plan on fighting or doing kata competitions right away then it doesn't matter what you remember. And even if you do want to compete it's still gonna take a few months to get back into shape anyways and in that time it will all come back to you.
As far as I know you have to be registered with the governing body for your sport in order to train and compete in it. So you should have records of your training. How old were you when you got your black belt? How long did it take you to get it? If you are 20 now for example and you got your black belt at 12 well then you are going to learn alot of new things you couldn't then. But if you were 16 or older than you would have learned all the techniques and been old enough to retain them.
If the Head of the dojo does not recognise your rank then don't go there... Also if they expect you to test right away to see if you are a black belt... Don't they should let you train for a few weeks or so and they will see what you know.
I also took a long time off from Judo and recently got back into it. It's been 3-4 months and it's all pretty much back and I am getting ready to start fighting more regularly again. I am at a new Dojo, my sensei basically asked what rank I was I told him and he said ok. I had my old belt and he never questioned it. I was a fighter so most of my grading came from winning fights. Kata is fairly new to me so when we work on certain techniques I look like an Orange belt rather than a Brown belt. But a good Sensei will see your true skills.
I think the odea of trying a new martial art is good and bad. Good in that you will learn a new way while getting back into shape and developing new and old skills. But it could be negative if you are not willing to accept that if you do train in a different art you will have to work from the begining again. And don't go for Karate or another Art similar to Tae Kwan Doe try somthing that will teach you new and complety different skills. Like Muay Thai or Judo...
13 years Judo, 5 years Grecco/Freestyle Wrestling
2007-01-18 16:46:09 · answer #1 · answered by Judoka 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well if you have taken 7-8 years off it would be best to start as a white belt. I took 9 years off and it hasn't hurt me any when i started back again as white belt. It actually helped me a lot more becuase i was able to refine techniques more. The belt doesn't make the person. it doesn't matter what belt you had or what you want to have. the true martial Artist comes from with. I have seen lower ranks beat up higher ranks. why would you want to come back in as a black belt and have to be taught by not only your instructors but color belts lower than you your basic forms. When i was a Orange belt the second time around I taught a black belt who had taken a few years off her Basic beginning Forms. She didn't last that long the second time either because she was concerned about the belt color and did n't like being taught by a lower belt. So what i am trying to say is don't worry about the belt color
2007-01-19 06:16:45 · answer #2 · answered by SuperSoldierGIJOE 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It takes an average of about 3 and 1/2 years. If the dojang is relatively Americanized then you can recieve a black belt in around that time. More traditional Taekwondo schools may make you wait longer. It also depends on your skill set. I've never come across a Taekwondo competition that had a belt requiement to compete. You are usually grouped together by belt rank so its not like youll be up against black belts with 18 years of experience.
2016-03-29 03:55:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look sonny, the only thing a bet is good for is to tie your gi together, understood???
If you know some thing and your muscles have learnt how to do the movements, then why don't you just go into the nearest dojo, and enter the class. Put on that white belt, it is the most fitting anyway, it matches with the gi.
In some martial arts, after you get your black belt, you go back to white, does that make any sense to you.
Black belt is just the first step man, it's like your high school diploma, the real mastery has no belts but the one that holds your pants up.
I'm sure that if you know what your doing, any sensei worth his teaching lisence will notice right away that you are competent and will ask you, then you can tell him, yes you have already compleated your black belt when you were yonger.
This is called humility, it is of the real path of the bushido
2007-01-18 12:55:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think you can get back up to black belt in a shorter amount of time, since you did have prior experience, and you say it will come back as you practice more. But, I would suggest you start at white belt anyway... it may take longer, but you will have more time to catch up on it. 7-8 years IS a long time.
However, I'd also listen to what KUMO said. A black belt is just a piece of fabric to hold your gi in place... and really, it's more like an high school diploma. It doesn't mean that you've mastered the art.
Good luck.
2007-01-18 14:45:17 · answer #5 · answered by ATWolf 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Believe it or not, I am going through the same thing. Granted, I left 6 months ago, not 8 years, but still. I think that you will probably have to go to some private lessons with your master to get back everything you would have forgot, but you won't have to do everything again. You should probably go to some private lessons, just you don't geet laughed at by some like orange belt, who doesn't know you, because you don't remember anything. I am planning to go back in the next month or so, so I am hoping I remember my forms and sparring and stuff, but I may need to get some private lessons to remember everything. ANyway, good luck getting back!
2007-01-18 12:49:24 · answer #6 · answered by yahskaraghu 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well in the first place it was a STUPID idea to leave, now you're desperate. Depending on the instructor he will have as a black, most likely you'll be a white. When you left you should have been practicing.
2007-01-21 12:04:05 · answer #7 · answered by Ninjato 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen to Bushido this man has wisdom, however if you are still interested this is what my Sensei does. Recently one of his top black belt students returned, after testing in front of my Sensei we all soon learned he had forgotten everything. Sensei Charals was so upset he pulled his knife and cut his belt off. After 3 months Sensei decided his knowledge was adequate to give him back his belt.
2007-01-18 14:33:04 · answer #8 · answered by Roger J 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Save yourself the trouble. You can buy a black belt off of the web for about $15.00 including shipping.
Why bother sweating and training. Just buy the belt and tell the lies. It is much cheaper. Invest the savings in pork belly futures.
2007-01-18 12:48:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Take private classes if available
2007-01-18 13:12:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋