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  1. 02-11-2006, 20:14 #1
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    About this time last year, several of you helped me with what my Sensei calls "brown belt syndrome". For some reason I wanted to quit karate. Anyway, just to let you know today at 6:30pm I became a Shodan!!!!
    Just wanted to say Thank You!
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    Congrats Debra, I am glad you stayed with it!
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    Congrats! Now the training begins for real!
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    Quote Originally Posted by dreese
    About this time last year, several of you helped me with what my Sensei calls "brown belt syndrome". For some reason I wanted to quit karate. Anyway, just to let you know today at 6:30pm I became a Shodan!!!!
    Just wanted to say Thank You!
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    Welcome to the new yudansha.

    Now the real work begins...

    Or as they say in NSW..."The only easy day was yesterday."
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    Congratulations and good luck on the LONG, BUMPY, PAINFUL, sometimes FRUSTRATING road ahead. Did I already say congrats?
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    Congratulations.
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    Congrats, Debra!
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    "Before enlightment chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightment chopping wood and carrying water."

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    Congratualtions, indeed!
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    Congratulations Debra! Aren't you glad that you hung in there?
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    Congratulations Deb!
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    Congratulations, Debra.

    Here's a link to the original thread for those that are too lazy to use the search button:

    http://www.budoseek.net/vbulletin/sh...brown+syndrome
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    Congratulations, like others have said. Now you can start to understand what you have learned to this point and why basics are so important. Glad you stayed with it. Train hard and often.

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    Thank you again! That was the hardest 6 hours I've had in a while, but it was worth it.
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    Good job! Now forget about it and get back to work!

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    Congratulations, now you are ready to learn and be a good
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    Just remember, there are actually five times that students are most likely to quit martial arts. First - the first couple of months when some of them realize its just not right for them or that they just aren't right for it. Second - leading up to dan (Brown Belt syndrome) for all of the reasons stated in your previous post. Third - and most critical for you right now - is after they get their black belt. A lot of students focus so much on getting the black belt that once they get there they think "wow I did it. Now I'm done." As others have already stated, in some ways your journey in the martial arts is reall just beginning with your black belt.

    The other two times students are most likely to quit? Four - after their first serious injurty. and #5 (drum roll please) - when they die. Hopefully, you won't have to go through #4, and if you do you'll view it as a temporary set back and learning experience, and of course may #5 be a long way off for everyone here.
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    Excuse me, Joe, but what makes you think death will stop a Martial Artist from training? Death once confronted Chuck Norris and realized that 1) it was only 50-50 that he could take Chuck, and 2) it would be silly to take out his second best supplier (after Tony, of course).
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    Quote Originally Posted by DragonMind
    Excuse me, Joe, but what makes you think death will stop a Martial Artist from training? Death once confronted Chuck Norris and realized that 1) it was only 50-50 that he could take Chuck, and 2) it would be silly to take out his second best supplier (after Tony, of course).
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    I heard that Chuck Norris actually died back in the '80s, but the Grim Reaper was to scared to claim his soul.
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