[DavidShreder]

IIRC, you could grade up to kiddy 2 dan and then have to wait for 16 to grade for 3dan direct. I checked on the KKA site and the only kiddy dan certificate was for 1 dan so the 2 dan may have been done away with. In the old days, you could set up 1 and 2 dan tests inside the dojang, if you had enough senior instructors, so waiting times were a lot less structured.