First of all, lemme say that if I were running a dojo and people did not buy gis in (x) amount of time after I told them to...I would tell them not to come back until they bought a damn uniform. SECOND, no way in hell should those people be allowed to test. Sorry, that's ridiculous. It's like $20 for a crappy gi.
I, erm, must disagree with you on the 'they last a lifetime' thing. I mean, when training gets down and dirty..and your gi becomes covered in sweat and blood on a pretty regular basis...yeah..need to replace every two years or so lol.
Not having good people to train with/spar with sucks. I've had that quite a few times in my karate career. Being the best in the dojo sometimes is kinda cool, until you realize that if there is no one better to work with you won't ever improve.
Heian go dan is probably my favorite of the (what you call) heians. Currently reworking on all of them because for second degree brown you must be able to do all of them. Perfectly. And then when you move on to the black belt test most times Sensei doesn't care about those and just makes you do all the upper level kata.
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I, erm, must disagree with you on the 'they last a lifetime' thing. I mean, when training gets down and dirty..and your gi becomes covered in sweat and blood on a pretty regular basis...yeah..need to replace every two years or so lol.
Not having good people to train with/spar with sucks. I've had that quite a few times in my karate career. Being the best in the dojo sometimes is kinda cool, until you realize that if there is no one better to work with you won't ever improve.
Heian go dan is probably my favorite of the (what you call) heians. Currently reworking on all of them because for second degree brown you must be able to do all of them. Perfectly. And then when you move on to the black belt test most times Sensei doesn't care about those and just makes you do all the upper level kata.