When people look at the Red Belt in my system — Jissenkō Ryū Karate at Voracious Karate — they often assume it’s “just the first belt after white”. It isn’t. In fact, the Red Belt is deliberately designed to expose a problem I’ve seen repeatedly across the UK: students progressing through multiple belts without ever being pressure tested. I’ve trained at, visited, and observed many karate clubs in this country. In most of them, sparring is not required for the first few belts

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