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[Leo_E_49]

How many times have you restarted another MA after gaining a black belt?

What did you make of the experience? How did you approach it?

[Athleng Nordic]

I've never earned a black belt in twenty years of training. But I was offered a brown belt in gung-fu.

[angry]

I've still am affiliated with the school I got my first dan ranking with but have trained in other styles to get a broader understanding of the arts in general. I was doing this before I got my 1st black belt as well so not too much has changed, but I have less time to train in other styles these days.

[sliver]

After getting my blackbelt in Kenpo, I really never had any intention of changing styles, though I would frequently go in and crosstrain in other things to help round my fighting out. I just happened to run into something that so completely blew me away, I ended up chainging over completely in time. I rarely do anything Kenpo anymore (not that there's anything wrong with Knepo).

[Nevada_MO_Guy]

I started training in Wing Chun when I was in the Navy. That school didn't have a belt ranking system....

Just tee-shirts, sweat pants, shoes....and go...

The karate I'm taking now has an organized ranking system.

[rainbows]

I started TKD after having a black belt in kenpo. It was a very good experience for me, strangely enough. I hadn't realised it at the time, but I'd become very complacent with my kenpo training. And starting TKD really revitalised me. It did feel weird to be a beginner again, but I got to really enjoy it. You forget exactly how much new stuff you take in every class when you're a beginner, and it just felt so good to be learning so many new things.

[seiki juku kid]

never :o i'm a black belt in karate :p but never considered starting another style as well! what kinda benefits would that have?

[karate princess]

never :o i'm a black belt in karate :p but never considered starting another style as well! what kinda benefits would that have?

im sure it would have some good benefits, the obvious one being that u could mix and match the styles of MA u train in, if u were ever in a street fight lol :)

[Meowmeows]

I received my black belt August 2004 in TaeKwondo.
but fall 2004 I ended up getting really sick and quit TKD for several months.
I had a hard time returning do to problems in the Dojang and
I had trouble keeping up to my old standards bcuz I was still recovering.
I havent yet returned to TKD but this summer I started Ninjutsu.
Ninjutsu is extremely different from TKD
So going from black to white was cool.

[Dojo]

Am still a long way to my first BB. I don't think I'd receive another one too soon :D

[Slindsay]

Black belts?

God I hardly stick with the arts long enough to get the damn white belts in 'em most of the time :D

[Munen Mushin]

Never. 17 years and still going in JJ, 4th Dan. :D

[Giver]

Technically, I've only had one white belt, and one black belt. But I have tried other ryu-was within my ryu, so I guess I've done it once, since I don't have a black belt in anything else but one.

Of Shiho Karano Ryu, I've tried our kempo-jitsu and kobudo.

[bonita]

received my black belt in a mma and now study kung fu and tai chi and have done some judo.

[jess869]

i started again from white again in septemeber. but as both styles are karate they skiped me up some of the lower grades.

[texas doc]

twice.

[niclans]

I started TKD after having a black belt in kenpo. It was a very good experience for me, strangely enough. I hadn't realised it at the time, but I'd become very complacent with my kenpo training. And starting TKD really revitalised me. It did feel weird to be a beginner again, but I got to really enjoy it. You forget exactly how much new stuff you take in every class when you're a beginner, and it just felt so good to be learning so many new things.

Haha, i was the other way round. I first started with WTF TKD until green belt. Then joined back ITF/GTF TKD all the way to black belt. I still continue my TKD training, but i'm also looking other MA to complement my kicking skills so i joined Shorinji Kempo starting from white belt, it was surely a very interesting and humbling experience as i was tossed around a lot by my new intructor.

[bonita]

just started over again at a white belt and i like it--trying to be an empty vessel--but also interesting to work with other white belts who have never trained new perspective that i forgot about.

[ap Oweyn]

Technically, I've never gone from a black belt in one style to a white belt in another. I went from a brown belt/black stripe (equivalent of red belt/black stripe) in taekwondo to a white belt in Doce Pares arnis. Then eventually earned a black belt in Doce Pares. After that, I certainly "started over" a fair number of times. Just never in another school that had a belt ranking system (or any ranking system really).

I'm not adverse to the idea though. I'd be perfectly willing to do that. I know what I know. And there's plenty I don't know. So why wouldn't I be willing to start over?


Stuart

[Jesh]

None. But now I'm approximately 2-3 months away from my first black belt.