{"id":1033,"date":"2009-09-12T01:16:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T05:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:18:10","slug":"the-meaning-of-the-brown-belt-3rd-1st-kyu-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/the-meaning-of-the-brown-belt-3rd-1st-kyu-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of the Brown Belt (3rd – 1st Kyu) – Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previously I posted the meaning of the Brown Belt<\/a>, the first of three brown belts in our Dojo.\u00a0 I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and have written a different perspective of the meaning here that flows from the meaning presented for the previous two belts.\u00a0 Here is the revisited meaning, post a comment with your opinion on both:<\/p>\n

Now the brown represents the deep brown of fertile soil, so rich it almost looks black.\u00a0 Ever more fertile the soil works with the heat of the Sun to push the plants growth.\u00a0 Now a source of nutriment the student needs little assistance in this final step of training.\u00a0 The training at this stage is just as arduous yet seems easier to the student.\u00a0 There is a synergy of the physical and mental aspects of the art, things are clearer and seen from many perspectives.\u00a0 The student is becoming a master.\u00a0 At this stage there is usually one task left to perfect, one task that is unique to the student.\u00a0 Like a fertile plot of land in the middle of the wilderness gone is the similarity as they stand distinct from their surroundings. \u00a0 The student is higher in rank, he\/she acquires more detailed knowledge and so the brown belt student learns to be more cautious and humble as his\/her knowledge and physical abilities increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previously I posted the meaning of the Brown Belt, the first of three brown belts in our Dojo.\u00a0 I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and have written a different perspective of the meaning here that flows from the meaning presented for the previous two belts.\u00a0 Here is the revisited meaning, post a Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,54,16],"tags":[68,69],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-styles","category-training-notes","tag-brown-belt","tag-kyu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}