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  2. Dan (rank) - Wikipedia

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    Dan. The dan (段) ranking system is used by many Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, and other martial arts organizations to indicate the level of a person's ability within a given system. Used as a ranking system to quantify skill level in a specific domain, it was originally used at a Go school during the Edo period. [ 1 ]

  3. Black belt (martial arts) - Wikipedia

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    In judo and some forms of karate, a sixth dan will wear a red-and-white belt. The red-and-white belt is often reserved only for ceremonial occasions, and a regular black belt is still worn during training. At 9th or 10th dan some schools award red. In some schools of jujutsu, the shihan rank and higher wear purple belts. These other colors are ...

  4. Rank in judo - Wikipedia

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    Tenth dan. Red or Black. jūdan (十段) Eleventh dan Twelfth dan and higher*. White or Red or Black. juichidan (十一段)junidan (十二段) Practitioners of Judo (柔道家, Jūdōka) are ranked according to their skill and knowledge, and, for high ranking dan grades, their contribution to the art. Their rank is indicated by the colour of ...

  5. Judo - Wikipedia

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    Judo (Japanese: 柔道, Hepburn: Jūdō, lit. 'gentle way') is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] Judo was created in 1882 by Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎) as an eclectic martial art, distinguishing itself ...

  6. Kyū - Wikipedia

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    The Dan ranking system starts after 1st kyū. Essentially, the kyū is the number of steps before reaching mastery whereas the dan gives steps into mastery. Pre-1st kyū and pre-2nd kyū are used in examinations of languages, because it is often hard to pass the examinations at 1st and 2nd kyū .

  7. Kodokan Judo Institute - Wikipedia

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    For the Special Historical Site in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, see Kōdōkan (Mito). The Kodokan Judo Institute (公益財団法人講道館), or Kōdōkan (講道館), is the headquarters of the worldwide judo community. The kōdōkan was founded in 1882 by Kanō Jigorō, the founder of judo, and is now an eight-story building in Tokyo. [ 3 ][ 4 ]

  8. Lua (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    There was a lack of any flow-control structures in SOL and DEL, and Petrobras felt a growing need to add full programming power to them. In The Evolution of Lua, the language's authors wrote: [6] In 1993, the only real contender was Tcl, which had been explicitly designed to be embedded into applications. However, Tcl had unfamiliar syntax, did ...

  9. Shodan (rank) - Wikipedia

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    Shodan (初段), literally meaning "beginning degree," is the lowest black belt rank in Japanese martial arts [1] and the game of Go. The 2nd dan is higher than Shodan, but the 1st dan is called Shodan traditionally and not " Ichidan ". This is because the character 初 (sho, alternative pronunciation: hatsu) also means first, new or beginning ...