{"id":2940,"date":"2022-09-14T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T23:04:22","slug":"my-first-exposure-to-karate-watching-an-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=2940","title":{"rendered":"My First Exposure to Karate – Watching an Examination"},"content":{"rendered":"
When I think about it, the first time I ever visited a karate dojo, an examination was being conducted. \u00a0My friend, Dennis, was a black belt in the Karate Association of Hawaii and a member of its best dojo, the University Karate Kai. \u00a0Coincidentally, Dennis was also the reason that Sensei Wayne and Sensei Peter became interested in the art. \u00a0One day at the university, Dennis invited me to join him in watching a UHKK practice session. \u00a0As it turned out, \u201cpractice\u201d was a special examination being given by Sensei Funakoshi for only two white belts. \u00a0Dennis told me that watching the exam was a good way to view karate techniques and see what might be expected of a trainee. \u00a0As I watched the two beginners being tested, I thought to myself, \u201cWow! These white belts look really good – in fact, they look really great!\u201d \u00a0Not knowing any karate at the time, I couldn\u2019t believe what was expected of a white belts taking their first promotion test\u2026and it was a very long one.. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t until after the exam was over that Dennis revealed that both examinees were previously brown or black belts in other karate schools. \u00a0The Karate Association of Hawaii had a great reputation, these experienced karateka had been more than willing to restart as white belts in Shotokan Karate-Do. \u00a0The lesson here is, if you really want to impress someone, just have all of your black belts wear a white belt and the observer (like me) will be amazed at the skill level of the \u201cbeginners”. \u00a0BTW, both \u201cwhite belts\u201d were promoted to purple or brown belt. \u00a0Several years later, I\u2019d be in Special Training with these two \u201cwhite belts” along with Sensei Wayne and Sensei Peter.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I think about it, the first time I ever visited a karate dojo, an examination was being conducted. \u00a0My friend, Dennis, was a black belt in the Karate Association of Hawaii and a member of its best dojo, the University Karate Kai. \u00a0Coincidentally, Dennis was also the reason that Sensei Wayne and Sensei Peter became interested in the art. \u00a0One day at the university, Dennis invited me to join him in watching a UHKK practice session. \u00a0As it turned out, \u201cpractice\u201d was a special examination being given by Sensei Funakoshi for only two white belts. \u00a0Dennis told me that watching the exam was a good way to view karate techniques and see what might be expected of a trainee. \u00a0As I watched the two beginners being tested, I thought to myself, \u201cWow! These white belts look really good – in fact, they look really great!\u201d \u00a0Not knowing any karate at the time, I couldn\u2019t believe what was expected of a white belts taking their first promotion test\u2026and it was a very long one.. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t until after the exam was over that Dennis revealed that both examinees were previously brown or black belts in other karate schools. \u00a0The Karate [...]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}