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Lokarin posted...

Maybe that means you're a bad president?

Let's get some third party verification

I mean... don't know what to tell you - I can rattle off a list of martial arts where you continue to learn techniques beyond black belt level.

If you already mastered all the techniques by the time you reach black belt, what would there be to learn? Also, how would you expect to reach black belt unless you've been training for decades?

FWIW, Gichin Funakoshi - one of the founding fathers of karate - once famously held a class with some of his most senior students just a few months before his death at age 89, after a lifetime of training in an art he was widely considered a consummate master of. He performed a soto uke - a block you would typically learn in your first few classes of karate - and remarked, "I believe I might finally be beginning to understand this technique."

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