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**snova** · 05-26-2006, 08:00 AM

Sorry Jklak, I apologize for any confusion.

May be it's just the case in the UK...... beginners also have to pay the KA... for temporary membership. I guess people are really scared if the beginners get hurt for doing things wrong. Secondly there are also people went on resting for their knees (eg. my sensei...), people went on for holiday, for work, busy doing something else, skipping for classes etc. Very rare cases I suppose. And may be once in a while. That's why I said it's difficult to define "activen-ess". Really sorry about this misunderstanding. Just blame my poor English manner. ^_^"

There's a list for Dan grades in Europe at the EKF site. Don't know when they last updated this... Very Odd... you can find people with their KA numbers, names and grades... Where's privacy? Anyway according to the list, here're the # of Dan grades for some of the european countries:

Belgium: 315
Germany: 511
Netherlands: 354
UK: 892

btw, I really want to complain that many KA sites didn't have enough information. Yeah people are paying for taking part in the Tournaments and seminars and all that, but they should have records showing up in their sites too. Like the Japanese one, they have records charts for all the national championships (the police, school kids, ladies, inter-prefecture, etc.)... You'll see who's fighting against who, name, age, dan AND # of years they've entered the competition, and most importantly, how they scored (M, K, D, T or X/hansoku) you can even trace them back in 3-5 years. Also grading records and statistics... you know, congratulating new passes...

Afterall, I think informative sites should be updated regularly. Event and results should come second, after the dojo list.

(should have started a new thread """)

05-26-2006, 08:00 AM	#10
snova Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	Sorry Jklak, I apologize for any confusion. May be it's just the case in the UK...... beginners also have to pay the KA... for temporary membership. I guess people are really scared if the beginners get hurt for doing things wrong. Secondly there are also people went on resting for their knees (eg. my sensei...), people went on for holiday, for work, busy doing something else, skipping for classes etc. Very rare cases I suppose. And may be once in a while. That's why I said it's difficult to define "activen-ess". Really sorry about this misunderstanding. Just blame my poor English manner. ^_^" There's a list for Dan grades in Europe at the EKF site. Don't know when they last updated this... Very Odd... you can find people with their KA numbers, names and grades... Where's privacy? Anyway according to the list, here're the # of Dan grades for some of the european countries: Belgium: 315 Germany: 511 Netherlands: 354 UK: 892 btw, I really want to complain that many KA sites didn't have enough information. Yeah people are paying for taking part in the Tournaments and seminars and all that, but they should have records showing up in their sites too. Like the Japanese one, they have records charts for all the national championships (the police, school kids, ladies, inter-prefecture, etc.)... You'll see who's fighting against who, name, age, dan AND # of years they've entered the competition, and most importantly, how they scored (M, K, D, T or X/hansoku) you can even trace them back in 3-5 years. Also grading records and statistics... you know, congratulating new passes... Afterall, I think informative sites should be updated regularly. Event and results should come second, after the dojo list. (should have started a new thread """)
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