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Originally Posted by VARIETY
This is believable, if quite unusual, since you do not claim a 5th degree from the ATA, of which I was a member. I knew some extremely good practitioners who, in 20 years, had not progressed past third degree. I only saw one instructor at all of the meets in which I competed, who had achieved an ATA 5th degree.
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1 year to "graduated" black belt, 2 years to second degree, and 3 years to third degree. A total of six years. As I earned by black belt at 10, I was around 16 when I earned my third degre from ATA. I moved to another school after that.
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Originally Posted by VARIETY
Yes, and I have opinions about the replies. As usual, Ann has put forth a reasonably correct statement, and couched it in terms that are guaranteed to piss off the politically correct.
If she had blamed the Bush administration for tax cuts that forced a five-foot grandmother to accept a "dangerous job," the same politically correct faction would have been tripping all over themselves to blame the administration for "forcing an obviously physically inferior woman to guard this brute."
Some people, such as you, disagreed with Ann and presented cogent points in refutation of her article.
Others engaged in name-calling and hate speech. Those people deserve to be ignored, and I did.
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When you say "reasonably correct", are you suggesting that ann was right and women should not be police officers? Politically correct speech aside, are you sure a female police officer can't be trained to handle herself well enough to deal with the average criminal?