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sminki
19-02-2004, 06:58 AM
Does anyone know the official IKF/AJKF rules on the number of judges and their rank (dan) requirement for each level of testing (shodan through hachidan)? (I know for example, for the first round of 8 dan test, there are 7 judges who are 8 dan.) It does not seem to be specified in the rulebook. What I'm looking for is something like "for _ dan testing, _ number of judges of which at least _ is _ dan".
JSchmidt
19-02-2004, 09:21 AM
Only vaguely. (And it might not be accurate)
Ikkyu 5 x 3dan+
Shodan-Sandan 5x 5dan+
Yondan 5 x 6dan+

Jakob
Curtis
19-02-2004, 11:32 AM
I've got the whole regs here.

http://www.kendo-usa.org/reference/promo_regs.htm
sminki
22-02-2004, 01:41 PM
I've got the whole regs here.

http://www.kendo-usa.org/reference/promo_regs.htm

Thank you. Do you know if this rule applies to all IKF organizations?
Curtis
22-02-2004, 02:12 PM
Thank you. Do you know if this rule applies to all IKF organizations?
These are the official regs taken from their document. They tried to make a change to them at the general meeting but many of the IKF organizations objected and it was tabled. I was told the changes would have made difficult or impossible to give a test for the smaller organizations.

Not sure what is on the table for the future. Japan made major changes to their regs for shogo I know.
sminki
23-02-2004, 12:27 AM
These are the official regs taken from their document. They tried to make a change to them at the general meeting but many of the IKF organizations objected and it was tabled. I was told the changes would have made difficult or impossible to give a test for the smaller organizations.

Not sure what is on the table for the future. Japan made major changes to their regs for shogo I know.

Yeah. I can see how it can become a problem for smaller organizations. On the flip side, it may be a good method of "quality control". Thank you for the information.