Tag: education
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#9 One Step Closer: Does 7‑dan Demonstrate a Performance Standard or Embodied Knowledge?
Striving towards any grade is a personal journey. Nevertheless, a grade is considered a demonstration of a certain standard of embodied kendo knowledge. Or is it? Can the standard be performed, without the knowledge or ethics being embodied? Is 7‑dan a standard you can perform well enough to pass? I have always wondered whether it…
Kate Sylvester Perspectives 