What is you level?

[joshuahiroe]

I am curious as to what level of martial art skill is everyone on this site. As everyone knows every martial art system has a different ranking system, and even different ranking systems in the same style. So in order to quantify relative rank and skill, I am going to propose the following system.

For level (belt) on a scale on 1 to 10 with one being the beginning student and 10 being mastery.

And then within your current level (belt) and up to that level (martial arts is accumulated skill) your skill on a scale on 1 to 10 with one being the very little understanding and 10 being mastery.

For example: If the belt ranking went as follows white, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown, red, black, senior black.

And you were a green belt your level would be 4. And say you knew the required form and strikes however you did not know how to apply them I would say your skill up to that level would be a 3.

I know that many don't use belts but I am sure you get the idea.

[Shaolinlueb]

i have been doing kung fu for 5 years. and by american standards i think i am on the advance level. am I high in the advance game? not really at all. I still need work on moves and such. but i think my kung fu is good and my fighting is good too. i know what needs work and i keep on tuggin away. i dont practice as much with working so much. it sucks. will i ever become a master? who knows, probably not. i try to stay humble. except when im at tournaments talking trash

i jsut try to have fun when doing it. if i dont have fun then im doing it for the wrong reasons.

[SevenStar]

1. ranking systems within styles are different

2. anytime you are depending on someone to HONESTLY rank THEMSELVES, there's bound to be error...

[SaekSan]

Hmmm... isn't what you're asking somewhat based on perception? I can understand a question such as "how long?" even though I know plenty of people that have been at it for years and are still inept. Even if people were in a system that quantified how much you know in a given level (which is uncommon in CMA) you'll still get a eschewed answer based on the perception of their teachers.

Does it even matter? Why?

[Oso]

I'll play and hopefully reinforce Sevenstars (*edit: and Seaksan's) point.

7 years of hung gar and I was wearing a brown sash.

13 years of a mixed system of kung fu and I was wearing a 3rd level black sash and was given the title of 'sifu' by my teacher

20 months of praying mantis and that's all I'm training now and I don't have any rank in it.

*edit*
oops, forgot one:

6 months of jujitsu and I have a blue belt.





i fight so-so.

so, I'm a So So Sash.

[Reggie1]

I'm the self-proclaimed Grandmaster of my own system.

I call it 'Hold 'em and Go-Do'. It's a super-secret system in which I magically take all of your money using nothing but a simple deck of playing cards. Then I vanish into thin air. *poof*

Send me $100 and I'll teach you.



Seriously, though, wouldn't it just be easier to ask people how long they've been practicing certain arts?

7* mantis for 7 months. We also work a little Shuai Chiao and a little submission wrestling.

[Ralphie]

I'm a 8th level fighter with a sweet +5 Vorpal Sword and +2 Plate of fire resistance.

[PangQuan]

Im pretty good, by this system I would have to rank myself kinda high. hmmm at least a -7 ya that sounds about right.

[Oso]

I'm a 8th level fighter with a sweet +5 Vorpal Sword and +2 Plate of fire resistance.

{Drinks Potion of Dexterity}

{Casts Mirror Image Spell on self}

{Casts Ice Storm at Ralphie}

[sean_stonehart]

My level... about 2 degrees off center

[Ralphie]

{Drinks Potion of Dexterity} -takes 1 turn
I have a 3/2 attack ratio. My first strike turns up 8 (a miss) Next strike a 15. Roll the 10 sided die for damage-6+5+3(str bonus)=14 dmg.

[Oso]

Drinking the potion was a free action because I was hiding and you were unaware of me.

You couldn't have acted until you 'spotted' (god I hate 3rd ed rules) me casting the Mirror Image.


but anyway...you think I'm standing here in some flimsy robe?

I have a dex of 16, Bracers of AC 4 and a ring of prot +1 for an AC of 1. I think you need...crap, that would have meant you needed a 19 but I'm not sure.

fudge it, ok you hit me

just averageing my HP at 5/lvl and as a 9th level mu/th that gives me 45 HP...now 31.

[his plan to attack from hiding foiled, the entrepid half elf drops a small figurine to the ground and a small but ferocious looking wombat trundles toward the fighter]

[PangQuan]

{plays his flute of the dragon}

{calls forth the red dragon from the depths of heck}

Red dragon incinerates all other players:

GAME OVER !!

I win.

[SevenStar]

for not participating in that melee, my street cred goes +1.

[BibitClerus]

abdominal adipose shield:
AC 5
CHA -10 against females