Edenna
September 22, 2008, 1:10pm
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Arac:
Well, there’s a sorta-official, but mostly stupid and meaningless, ranking system that’s based entirely on competition, but that exists only in vague terms that failed to make any more sense after twelve years of doing it than they did the first time I heard results announced. My Ajarn said it’s an antiquated holdover from the old Thai dynasties, where it was equivalent to a modern seeding system. Nowadays (or, at least up-until-the-coup-a-days), it lets stupid 16 year-old kids (read: me) be proud to get new titles they (read: I) can’t really pronounce.
Since the style I do isn’t really accepted by the TBA, I don’t know too much about its ranks (does it really just have instructor? Not Ajarn, Kru Ajarn, and like five other kinds of Ajarn?), I would just worry a Muay Thai school giving out kyu/dan style ranks is a McDojo. “Level 2” I will agree, sounds pretty stupid and lame. I wouldn’t say “I’m a level two kickboxer.”
No, I haven’t seen schools give out kyu/darn levels.
Yes, level 1, 2, and instructor are rather lame, but then thats what the US has to say on Muay Thai . . . anything not american is garbage
Curtis
September 23, 2008, 2:54am
42
I’ve always wondered why it seems every doughy looking videogame nerd has years of martial arts training, heh. Also, sorry to everyone for stereotyping, but I didn’t know any other way to phrase it.
One minute, nine seconds. I’d have the velociraptor bite through the chain and run like hell though.
3rd brown belt in shotokan karate. Should be a black, but knee injuries are a big FUCK YOU to martial arts.
And then I moved away.
(Also weapons training a bit but not gonna bother including that).
Lex
September 24, 2008, 9:06am
45
57 seconds. I need to stop screaming after the loss of a limb.
( hm, though nothing is made here 
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Black belt will be mine.