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- From: garry@alice.att.com (garry hodgson)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: 10th Dan & Badass Karate (belt system)
- Keywords: dirty smelly stinkin' gi
- Message-ID: <24227@alice.att.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:36:52 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.045400.26626@gagme.chi.il.us> <1992Nov15.190126.206@pages.com>
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- In article <1992Nov15.190126.206@pages.com> kevin@pages (Kevin Sven Berg) writes:
- In article <1992Nov14.045400.26626@gagme.chi.il.us> phantom@gagme.chi.il.us
- (Leif Ericksen) writes:
- [...snip snip ...]
- > True, the original belt systems was teh dirtier it was the
- > more experience you supposedly had. THUS the tradition that YOU NEVER
- > EVER was your belt.
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- 'never wash you belt?
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- This sounds like folklore, and I find it hard to believe arising from a
- society that places great value in bathing and cleanliness.
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- This is, indeed, karate tradition. One *never* washes the obi.
- I have found this to be universal among people from various
- japanese/okinawan styles I have known.
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