The Karate Grading System-British Combat Karate Association

The Karate Grading System

The grading system for Karate, like all Japanese, derivative martial arts is very formalised. In 1924 Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan Karate, adopted the Dan system from Judo founder  Jigoro Kano, using a rank system with a limited set of belt colors. Kano himself adopted the Dan ranking system, which was invented by Honinbo Dosaku a professional go player in the Edo period. Dosaku valued the then highest title holder, Meijin at 9 Dan.

In modern Japanese martial arts, holders of dan ranks often wear a black belt. Dan ranks are still given in arts such as the strategy board games  Go and Renju, the art of flower arrangement (ikebana)and tea ceremony. The character of Dan (段 dan) is used in Japanese to mean step or grade, and is commonly equated with degree. However, the origin of the Chinese character, pronounced duán in modern Pinyin, was used to mean “phase”. Dan rank is often used along with the lower rank system, Kyu(級 Kyū) rank. Kyu is a Japanese term used in martial arts, go and ikebana, such as Japanese traditional culture, and academic tests and in other similar activities to designate various grades or levels or class of proficiency or experience.

Other Okinawan teachers also adopted this practice. In the late 1800s, even Kano had no external differentiation between yūdansha (black belt ranks) and mudansha (those who had not yet attained a grade). Kano began the custom of having his yūdansha wear black obi (belts) in 1886. These obi were not the belts karateka and jūdōka wear today—Kano had not invented the  judogi (judo uniform) yet, and his students were still practicing in kimono. They wore the wide obi still worn with formal kimono. In 1907, Kano introduced READ MORE-http://britishcombatkarate.co.uk/karate/gradings/

RESPECT THE 2 MINUTE SILENCE

At 11am on each Remembrance Sunday a two minute silence is observed at war memorials and other public spaces across the UK. The silence is meant as a tribute to those who lost their lives fighting for their country - but what is the significance of that date and time?

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 the guns of Europe fell silent. After four years of bitter fighting, The Great War was finally over. The Armistice was signed at 5am in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne, France on November 11, 1918. Six hours later, at 11am, the war ended.

The first Remembrance Day was conducted in 1919 throughout Britain and the Commonwealth. Originally called Armistice Day, it commemorated the end of hostilities the previous year. It came to symbolise the end of the war and provide an opportunity to remember those who had died.

In a letter published in the London Evening News on 8 May 1919, an Australian journalist, Edward George Honey, had proposed a respectful silence to remember those who had given their lives in the First World War. This was brought to the attention of King George V and on 7 November 1919, the King issued a proclamation which called for a two minute silence:

"All locomotion should cease, so that, in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead."

After the end of the Second World War in 1945 Armistice Day became Remembrance Day to include all those who had fallen in the two World Wars and other conflicts.

Since 1919, on the second Sunday of November, otherwise known as Remembrance Sunday, a two minute silence has been observed at 11am at war memorials, cenotaphs, religious services and shopping centres throughout the country.

The Royal Family, along with leading politicians and religious leaders gather at The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London for a service and all branches of the civilian and military services are represented in ceremonies throughout Britain and the Commonwealth.

1939 survey September 29

This is a one off  register was a  one off compulsory survey taken on September 29 1939 ,26 days  before the  war declared  on Germany. 41 million people were asked their  age,job,address,name and was updated in 1991.This is  a important  document as the 1939 cenus was destroyed  by fire in world war 2.Y ou can view the digitalised  document  at www.findmypast.co.uk and it was used to help rationing  during the  war i  think,

Pixie,s hallows art...illustrator..photographer

I am inspired by nature and how it moves and changes not only inform but by colour. Natures colour can be so bright and colourful but then change to the darker elements as the nature moves with earth as it revolves around. No image is the same and I like that challenge and try and catcher that moment in time. The weather also apart of natures way set mood to a image and try catch that before it changes is really tricky  to quickly paint and rember the scene as it moves as the earth rotates. I would love to continue to try and catcher nature and earths rotation from sultal to the dramatic setting  as nature revolves to it many spendered forms of colour, drama, setting. Also I hope to expand the studio and open to the public in near future.
My style is unique by mixing the old with the new and by doing this I am able to catcher nature as she moves with earths rotation. To be free to be able to move around the board freely to let the paint creatively move with the ever changing setting of nature is what I love and the many challenges that it comes with.

DEAR DEPARTED

IN INDONESIAN RITUAL CALLED MA,NEH-THE CEREMONY OF CLEANING CORPSES FAMLIES DIG UP  DEAD RELATIVES AND DRESS THEM IN NEW CLOTHES AND PARADE THEM AROUND THIER VILLAGE. THIS IS TO HONOUR ANCESTORS AND HELD EVERY 3 YEARS.THE FAMLIES  WELCOME THE SPIRITS OF DEAD BY REPAIRING THIER BROKEN COFFINS THEN LAY CORPSES INSIDE BACK IN THIER GRAVE.

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HALLOWEEN -LETS GET SCARED&&

THIS IS TO ME WHEN I WAS YOUNGER BEING SCARED WATCHING HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR FILMS LIKE DRACULA-YES DATED NOW THEN ONTO SO CALLED VIDEO NASTIES WHICH NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET  WAS ONE.THE AMERICAN IDEA OF  DRESSING UP YOUR HOUSE AND YOURSELFS IS GROWING STRONGER IN THIS  COUNTRY AND YOU SEE THIS IN THE SHOPS.WHY DO WE LIKE TO BE FRIGHTENED  IT COULD  BE DUE TO TO THE PART OF US THAT IS STILL A TINY BIT PART CAVEMAN AS THIER HAD TO BE ALERT BUT MODERN HUMANS LEAD A MUCH EASIER LIFE.SO BEWARE THE WITCHING HOUR AND SHADOWS THAT MOVE WITH A BUMP IN THE NIGHT.