{"id":132,"date":"2012-02-19T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T22:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karate.gregoryzone.org\/?p=132"},"modified":"2012-02-19T17:19:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T22:19:56","slug":"grading-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Grading dates."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trying to remember when I graded to different ranks previously, and how long I spent at each kyu.\u00a0 Fortunately, I found my old &#8220;budo passport&#8221; that was used by members of the YKKF (Yudansha Kobujitsu Karate-Doh Federation) when I was a student and it has all this information in it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my timeline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September 20, 1993<\/strong> &#8212; I began training in Japanese Goju-ryu at McMaster University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>November 24, 1993<\/strong> &#8212; I graded to yellow belt in Japanese Goju-ryu. (Time as white belt: 2 months).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>March 28, 1994<\/strong> &#8212; I graded to orange belt in Japanese Goju-ryu. (Time as yellow belt: 4 months).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June 2, 1994<\/strong> &#8212; I graded to green belt in Okinawan Jundokan Goju-ryu. By this time, I was training at a dojo in Orillia and was attending a lot of classes. I was surprised when my Sensei told me I would be grading so soon, but he must have thought I was ready. (Time as orange belt: just over 2 months).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>January 21, 1995<\/strong> &#8212; I graded to blue belt in Okinawan Jundokan Goju-ryu. (Time as green belt: 7.5 months).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September 23, 1995<\/strong> &#8212; I graded to brown belt in Okinawan Jundokan Goju-ryu. (Time as blue belt: 8 months).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June 24, 1996<\/strong> &#8212; The last entry in my passport for attending a class. I am not sure if I continued to attend classes until the end of that summer but they weren&#8217;t logged (this is plausible), but in any case I stopped training regularly by the time I returned to the 4th year of my undergraduate degree and chose to focus on my research and academics. (Time spent training as a brown belt: 9 or 10 months).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Total time spent training: approximately 3 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Belt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20 aligncenter\" title=\"Belt1\" src=\"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Belt1-171x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Belt1-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Belt1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find it amazing that I remember as much as I do, given how long ago this was. I chalk it up to having been trained well by my Sensei and taking it very seriously when I was training. I used to attend a lot of classes on weekends and throughout the summers, including both junior and senior belt classes and helping with children&#8217;s classes.\u00a0 I am hoping that it will continue coming back to me, or that I can learn it much more quickly this time around because of my earlier experience. In any case, it feels great to be back in the gi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trying to remember when I graded to different ranks previously, and how long I spent at each kyu.\u00a0 Fortunately, I found my old &#8220;budo passport&#8221; that was used by members of the YKKF (Yudansha Kobujitsu Karate-Doh Federation) when I was a student and it has all this information in it. Here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}