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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Narrator" data-source="post: 670476" data-attributes="member: 10027">Heh, yeah, this is what my dad told me as well. He said he was one below a 'rainbow belt' as a kid and also did training in Japan when he was a sales representative for a company over there.That's why I refused belts in my karate class. I asked the sensai first if he wouldn't mind and he was ok with it. I went to the kata evaluations for a couple of belts anyway but stopped going 'cause I thought they were a bit of a waste of time (ever tried crowding a hundred people into a 20'x80' room and then asking them to do kata's properly?).That, and I tended to be better than most green belts and even gave a couple of black belts a run for their money <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Not that that was entirely a reflection on the sensai (although, ultimately, it was), he was a good bloke and won plenty of full-contact competition, but I think he was a bit too lenient.I'd say this is pretty common. I highly doubt most black belts would be up to the standards of the 'old school' types.</blockquote>