[Leica] Monday Misc.

[John McMaster]

Same as I know as black belt then?

John

From: LUG <lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org> on behalf of Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
Date: Tuesday, 30 December 2025 at 22:07
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Cc: Don Dory <don.dory at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Monday Misc.

In most martial arts there is a ranking of learning and capability.  Most
if not all consider a black "sash" or belt as a signifier of acceptable
accomplishment: there are intermediate color sashes signifying increasing
levels of capability.  In the Tai Chi tradition three years is considered
about the minimum time to learn that acceptable knowledge of the form and
its principles.  At this graduation two individuals earned their fifth
degree belt after around twenty years in the discipline.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> All three are very nice, but what is a black sash graduation?
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu