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Old 03-31-2011, 11:15 AM   #2
Basia Halliop
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: How Long does it take to move up in belt ranking?

Depends on your organization, your school, and yourself.

E.g. the USAF outlines the minimum number of days of practice between tests:
http://usafaikidonews.com/official_u...1.test.req.pdf

Other organizations have different guidelines, and consequently ranks only really have any meaning within one organization (and meaning can even vary from school to school within one organization as well). Also days are just minimums as different people will make different amounts of progress in different amounts of training. And different teachers will have a different idea in their mind of what amount of proficiency they want to see at each level. And of course how 'days of training' translates into days on the calendar depends how often you train.

For us though, the gaps between ranks are smaller at lower ranks and as you progress it takes more and more time to get to the next level.

Basically, 'it depends'. Ask different people in your dojo how long they've been training and how often they train and you'll get an idea.

In any case, the name of the rank you have won't really make any difference to the amount of progress you'll have made, if that makes any sense.
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