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Old 05-28-2003, 04:44 PM   #57
Eric Joyce
Dojo: Budoshingikan
Location: Gilbert, AZ
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I would tend to agree with the posters in this forum in regards to ranking. I think it is a way to test and measure ones progress at a certain point in time over material that should be known up to that point. However, I have seen a watering down of ranking and the abuses still continue. Not a lot, but enough to make you think. Some have suggested switching over to certificates (Menkyos), but these could be abused as well. I would like to add a comment a fellow poster said to me once on another forum regarding this issue. He said, "Train for the sake of training. Train because you want to. Don't do it because you want to get a belt." In his style of martial art (Yoshida Han Bujutsu) they have no ranking, but they are probably some of the best practioners of aikijujutsu I have ever seen. Just food for thought.

Eric Joyce
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