Before I started on my karate path, I remember having the idea that Black Belts were Masters of Martial Arts. Of course, once I met my husband (who was a Nidan at the time), he set me straight right away – “a Black Belt just means that you know how to train”, he said “It means that you managed to drag your butt out to the dojo a couple of times a week for a few years”. What a disappointment! I was sure that Black Belts held some kind of mystical source of great power, li