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Post by tomobrien1 on Feb 28, 2014 19:22:00 GMT
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Post by Allan Shepherd on Feb 28, 2014 21:41:40 GMT
Hi Tom
Not sure about whether he is the youngest at 8 years old (possibly in the KUGB) but during the early 90's I attended a UKTKF course under Sensei Kawasoe and a guy from Liverpool called Tony Quigley was there with his 8 year old daughter (cannot remember her name) taking their respective Nidan and Shodan gradings. I understand Tony failed his Nidan but his daughter passed her Shodan. She was amazing, everything was text book. What impressed everyone was her discipline, particularly her body dynamics from stance to stance.
That interim period can be such a void when it comes to demonstrating the shift of body weight. I have only ever seen it once before when I was teaching a very young beginner who sadly did not continue her karate training, found out later she achieved her excellent form from doing gymnastics which I understand she continued with. With the permission of her mother I had her out in front of the class to demonstrate the transition of movement to maintain correct hip height.
Best Regards Allan
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Post by dhodge on Mar 1, 2014 9:36:41 GMT
There are a few 8-10 year old Shodans in the JKS Scotland group, one little girl is excellent her kata execution is really good.
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Post by nathanso on Mar 1, 2014 21:42:02 GMT
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Post by tomobrien1 on Mar 6, 2014 2:17:56 GMT
Any black belt under 16 years of age is considered a 'junior' black belt. I've been doing martial arts for 43 years & teaching for 35. I've never promoted one yet. My Dai Sempai started @ 7 years of age & was promoted to shodan @ age 17. Five years later he was promoted to nidan. I have only promoted 3 people to black belt, but we are a small club.
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