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In tsunami system taught material is divided structurally into stages, called initiation degrees.

The sign of tsunami system
(the earthly globe surrounded with the black belt, symbolizing self-improvement). Location of the belt in tsunami sign is emphasis the great meanings, which act gradual conquering much and much higher degrees in process of self-improvement.
These degrees are usually marked by belts with different colors..

Kinds of initiation degrees


Initiations degrees in karate are divided into two groups:

  • students' degrees, granted to students in the process of mastering of following party of material,
  • masterlys degrees, granted usually for instructors - masters.
In individual styles there is distinguished various number of these degrees and also is used their sign with belt of various colors. This matter was introduced here for example of tsunami style.

In tsunami appear:

  1. twenty of student degrees (Japanese: kyu): in orders from 20 to 1 kyu;

    marked in turn with belts:
    • red,
    • white,
    • yellow,
    • orange,
    • green,
    • blue,
    • bronze;
  2. ten of the masterly degrees (Japanese: dan): in order from 1 to 10 dan;

    marked in turn with belts:
    • black,
    • black and white,
    • white and red,
    • black and red,
    • red.

Demands for degrees

In tsunami on level of students' degrees - kyu we try to master all required material in respect of theoretical and practical, and also we learn to run real fight.

Next on level of the masterly degrees - dan we develop more and more great efficiency in fight, and also skill of teaching others. In tsunami too the real master is considered a person, who is not only conquered high skills, but also possesses students and is able properly to run them in the way of improvement themselves.

In tsunami requirements for degrees are usually exactly settled in the form of the concrete material. In this connection it is known in advance, which part of material should be mastered, to obtain the given degree.

In tsunami requirements for degrees contains the book "Dankai" ('Examination - requirements for degrees').
"Dankai" in transparent way introduces concrete examination requirements, which one should meet to get individual degrees, and this way forces proper direction of activities in way of self-improvement.

Thanks to systematized way secure it in respect formal correct and in due measure similar - identical development of individual tsunami members.
Thanks to systematized requirements for degrees, transparent methodology and to instruction in a club or circle and in groups, an average talented person can perhaps already in the time of several years to pass in tsunami for the black belt (the masterly degree 1 dan), if of course works systematically..

Exams for degrees

Exams for masterly degrees (dan) in tsunami carry out exclusively founder of that system - soke Richard Murat 10 dan.

Exceptionally - for caring out exams for masterly degrees in distant countries, for example America, Asia whe ther Africa such authorization receive from him the most outstanding tsunami instructors (but each time soke Richard Murat confirms obtained in this way degrees).

Confirming of degrees

Acquitted degrees are confirmed with suitable documents:

  • kyu (students' degrees) - registration fees in tsunami passport (Japanese: bunsho), and sometimes also with certificates;
  • dan (masterly degrees) - certificates (Japanese: menkyo-kaiden) also with registration in bunsho.

Agrandir

The tsunami founder soke Richard Murat 10 dan hands the certificate for one of instructors for degree 2 dan after the passed exam.
Acquisition degrees - similarly like a driving license whether medical authorizations - but they can be taken (cancelled) for the person, who level undergone drastic to lower as a result of quit of practice or compromising of the given style, that is occurrence enough general.

Unfortunately, enough often - both in our country, and as all over the world - appear occurrence false of quote various persons for degrees (especially masterly), allegedly possessed in the given style. This is occurrence very injurious, because persons these deceive others and compromise given style, because usually not only do not possess skill, required for given degree, but not infrequently of even elementary knowledge about topical visage of given style.

Confirming degrees by means of certificates has assignment for limiting this occurrences. Besides possessed by some persons degrees in given style one can also confirm by a phone - or by a letter, being in contact with: the main master of the given style.

In the case of checking if the given person possesses the given degree in tsunami style one should contact with the founder of this style - soke Richard Murat 10 dan. e-mail: honbu@karatetsunami.org With degrees are connected titles, used in tsunami system, especially during trainings.

List of degrees and titles

KYU - STUDENTS' DEGREES

Degree Colour of a belt Title
0 kyu red seito
20 kyu red with 1 black stripe seito
19 kyu red with 2 black stripes seito
18 kyu white seito
17 kyu white with 1 black stripe seito
16 kyu white with 2 black stripes seito
15 kyu yellow deshi
14 kyu yellow with 1 black stripe deshi
13 kyu yelow with 2 black stripes deshi
12 kyu orange deshi
11 kyu orange with 1 black stripe deshi
10 kyu orange with 2 black stripes deshi
9 kyu green gakusei
8 kyu green with 1 black stripe gakusei
7 kyu green with 2 black stripes gakusei
6 kyu blue gakusei
5 kyu blue with 1 black stripe gakusei
4 kyu blue with 2 black stripes gakusei
3 kyu bronze senpai
2 kyu bronze with 1 black stripe senpai
1 kyu bronze with 2 black stripes senpai

DAN - MASTERLY DEGREES

Degree Colour of a belt Title
1 dan black with 1 white stripe sensei
2 dan black with 2 white stripes sensei
3 dan black with 3 white stripes meijin
4 dan white and black renshi
5 dan black and white kyoshi
6 dan white and red shihan
7 dan red and white shihan
8 dan black and red hanshi
9 dan red and black hanshi
10 dan red taishi

Titles, connected with possessed degrees:

  • seito - Japanese: 'a schoolboy';
  • deshi - Japanese: 'a schoolboy, a journeyman';
  • gakusei - Japanese: 'a student';
  • senpai - Japanese: 'older';
  • sensei - Japanese: 'a teacher, an instructor, a master';
  • meijin - Japanese: 'an outstanding master, genius';
  • renshi - Japanese: 'an outstanding master';
  • kyoshi - Japanese: 'an outstanding master, a wizard';
  • shihan - Japanese: 'the great master';
  • hanshi - Japanese: 'master of masters';
  • taishi - Japanese: 'the greatest master, the patriarch'.
These titles are used among other things in trainings, for example during the ceremony. Hence - depending of instructor degree - one of bows is named: sensei-ni rei or renshi-ni rei, and so on.

Title soke (Japanese: 'founder, head') is entitled only to the founder of given style, which possesses also usually of degree 10 dan.

Nevertheless degree 10 dan and connected with degree title taishi (Japanese: 'the greatest master, the patriarch') can conquer any number of persons.

Such situation appears in tsunami and several other styles, for example in judo and aikido (in which degree 10 dan obtained several masters).

Degree 10 dan

People practicing art of hand-to-hand fighting are interested often with the subject: And how one can obtain degree 10 dan?

This matter in each style is usually very easy title soke (Japanese: 'the founder, the head') and connected with highest degree 10 dan accepts say to so automatically the founder of the given style. This is obvious, if that person qualified rules of the given style and performed of partition its all of techniques for each degrees.

Not infrequently all over the world possessed in definite style masterly degrees are not recognized by masters from other styles, mostly of a reason various divides and conflicts.

In some styles, divided for many competitive changes and organization, for example in kyokushin, degrees obtained in one variety are not recognize even by representatives of remaining variety.

All over the world the degree 10 dan possesses about 150 persons. In Poland degree 10 dan possessed the grand master soke Richard Murat - the leader karate in this country, the founder of tsunami style and the president of Polish Martial Arts and Sports Federation.

These degree 10 dan Richard Murat became were awarded and confirmed in 1999 year with decision of leaders (main masters) of various styles, entering in composition Polish Martial Arts and Sports Federation (concentrating 27 organizations various styles Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipinos and other).

Certificate for ten degree were handed Richard Murat representatives of Polish Council and national power on the great festival of martial arts instructors (karate, judo, ju-jutsu, aikido, aiki-jutsu, kung-fu, taekwondo itd.), which took place 30 May 1999 in the most prestige place in Warsaw - Palace of Culture and Science.

In Poland degree 10 dan possesses four masters (in order alphabetical):
  1. Josef Brudny 10 dan - the pioneer kung-fu, founder Pszczyńska Academy of Martial Arts,
  2. Tadeusz Kochanowski10 dan - the pioneer judo, the founder and the first president Polish Judo Association,
  3. Christopher Kondratowicz10 dan - the pioneer jiu-jitsu, the founder Polish Centre of Jiu-jitsu Goshin-ryu,
  4. Richard Murat the leader karate in Poland, the founder of tsunami style.
These degrees became were awarded and confirmed in 1999 year with decision of leaders (main masters) of various styles, entering in composition Polish Martial Arts and Sports Federation (concentrating over 27 various styles Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipinos and other).

Apart of that 2003 the degree 10 dan got also master John Jasiewicz - the leader of Pszczyńska Akademy of Martial Arts and vice-president of Polish Martial Arts and Sports Federation.

List of persons with masterly degrees in tsunami system

In front of name there is given the title master connected with a possessed degree:

  1. soke Richard Murat 10 dan (Warsaw, Poland),
  2. shihan Vladimir Parfieniuk 6 dan,
  3. kyoshi Waldemar Badziąg 5 dan (Piła, Poland),
  4. kyoshi Mark Furman 5 dan (Żychlin, Poland),
  5. kyoshi Dariusz Jędrzejczak 5 dan (Łódź, Poland),
  6. kyoshi Christopher Liminowicz 5 dan (Bydgoszcz, Poland),
  7. kyoshi Paul Przybyszewsky 5 dan (Płock, Poland),
  8. kyoshi Tadeusz Ryniec 5 dan (Kutno, Poland),
  9. kyoshi Victor Sokolovsky 5 dan (Toronto, Canada),
  10. renshi Agis Agisilaou 4 dan (Limassol, Cyprus),
  11. renshi Giennadiy Giekov 4 dan (Thernovtsy, Ukraine),
  12. renshi Andrew Juśkiewicz 4 dan (Olsztyn, Poland),
  13. renshi Andrew Kaczmar 4 dan (Bytom, Poland),
  14. renshi Andrew Kamińsky 4 dan (Warsaw, Poland),
  15. renshi Anatoliy Richagov 4 dan (Sankt-Petersburg, Russia),
  16. meijin Alexandr Arhipov 3 dan (Vladivostok, Russia),
  17. meijin Ramil Diyarov 3 dan (Sankt-Petersburg, Russia),
  18. meijin Conrad Guenther 3 dan (Warsaw, Poland),
  19. meijin Serghey Ilichov 3 dan (Sankt-Petersburg, Russia),
  20. meijin Dominic Kandersky 3 dan (Biała Podlaska, Poland),
  21. meijin Charles Kubacky 3 dan (Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland),
  22. meijin Christopher Kurkowsky 3 dan (Łowicz, Poland),
  23. meijin Shamil Miehdiyev 3 dan (Sankt-Petersburg, Russia),
  24. meijin Valeriy Osokin 3 dan (Vladivostok, Russia),
  25. meijin Serghey Pietrienko 3 dan (Krivoy Rog, Ukraine),
  26. meijin Gregory Skibińsky 3 dan (Sochaczew, Poland),
  27. meijin Christopher Wasiak 3 dan (Warsaw, Polad),
  28. sensei Jarosław Franczak 2 dan (Zaborówek, Poland),
  29. sensei Gregory Badziąg 2 dan (Gdańsk, Poland),
  30. sensei Christopher Granosik 2 dan (Stryków, Poland),
  31. sensei Mark Kurkowsky 2 dan (Łowicz, Poland),
  32. sensei Vladimir Loginov 2 dan (Sankt-Petersburg, Russia),
  33. sensei Jack Łukawczyk 2 dan (Kutno, Poland),
  34. sensei Alexandr Makarov 2 dan (Sankt-Petersburg, Russia),
  35. sensei Valeriy Ovsiannikov 2 dan (Komsomolsk at the Amur, Russia),
  36. sensei Christopher Paluchowsky 2 dan (Kutno, Poland),
  37. sensei Christopher Sęczkowsky 2 dan (Żychlin, Poland),
  38. sensei Paul Skoczylas 2 dan (Puławy, Poland),
  39. sensei Jarosław Wadelsky 2 dan (Konin, Poland),
  40. sensei Gregory Zwolińsky 2 dan (Piaseczno, Poland),
  41. sensei Agatha Biedrzycka 1 dan (Warsaw, Poland),
  42. sensei Daniel Bogusz 1 dan (Łowicz, Poland),
  43. sensei Dariusz Bończak 1 dan (Łódź, Poland),
  44. sensei Przemysław Borońsky 1 dan (Gniezno, Poland),
  45. sensei Alexandr Bragar 1 dan (Thernovtsy, Ukraine),
  46. sensei Jacek Cichocky 1 dan (Ciechanów, Poland),
  47. sensei Paul Ciucias 1 dan (Puławy, Poland),
  48. sensei Robert Tchaykovsky 1 dan (Warsaw, Poland),
  49. sensei Thomas Debsky 1 dan (Chicago, USA),
  50. sensei Viktoras Dulinskas 1 dan (Mariampol, Lithuania),
  51. sensei Rui Carlos Ferreira 1 dan (Maputo, Mozambique, Africa),
  52. sensei Roman Fotek 1 dan (Kisielice, Poland),
  53. sensei Jose da Gama 1 dan (Luanda, Angola, Africa),
  54. sensei Leszek Gawryś 1 dan (Bolesławiec, Poland),
  55. sensei Peter Górecky 1 dan (Olsztyn, Poland),
  56. sensei Paul Jagiełło 1 dan (Góra Kalwaria, Poland),
  57. sensei Thomas Janicky 1 dan (Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland),
  58. sensei Casimir Jezuita 1 dan (Góra Puławska, Poland),
  59. sensei Sławomir Kania 1 dan (Poznań, Poland),
  60. sensei Vitaliy Karpov 1 dan (Kicmań, Ukraine),
  61. sensei Waldemar Kisiel 1 dan (Alamo, Texas, USA),
  62. sensei Christopher Kołodziejsky 1 dan (Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland),
  63. sensei Arkadiusz Koźluk 1 dan (Waraw, Poland),
  64. sensei Sławomir Krysa 1 dan (Puławy, Poland),
  65. sensei Peter Kucharsky 1 dan (Piaseczno, Poland),
  66. sensei Dariusz Kujawa 1 dan (Koło, Poland),
  67. sensei Daniel Lenartowicz 1 dan (Kutno, Poland),
  68. sensei Catherine Łęczycka 1 dan (Warsaw, Poland),
  69. sensei Konstantin Loskutov 1 dan (Sankt-Petersburg, Russia),
  70. sensei Konrad Maciaszek 1 dan (Golina, Poland),
  71. sensei Victor Majewsky 1 dan (Kłodawa, Poland),
  72. sensei Artur Marcinkowsky 1 dan (Drobin, Polska),
  73. sensei Bogdan Marcinkowsky 1 dan (Drobin, Poland),
  74. sensei Magdalen Mikulska 1 dan (Bydgoszcz, Poland),
  75. sensei Peter Mikulsky 1 dan (Toruń, Poland),
  76. sensei Maciej Misztal 1 dan (Łęczyca, Poland),
  77. sensei Waldemar Modzelewsky 1 dan (Olsztyn, Poland),
  78. sensei Tony Nicol 1 dan (Bristol, England),
  79. sensei Gregory Niemiec 1 dan (Warsaw, Poland),
  80. sensei Yevgieniy Novodvorskiy 1 dan (Komsomolsk at the Amur, Russia),
  81. sensei Mariusz Obrycky1 dan (Łomża, Poland),
  82. sensei Vladimir Paliuch 1 dan (Komsomolsk at the Amur, Russia),
  83. sensei Christopher Pawełek 1 dan (Przeworsk, Poland),
  84. sensei Alexander Piekarsky 1 dan (Częstochowa, Poland),
  85. sensei Dominic Respond 1 dan (France),
  86. sensei Dariusz Richter 1 dan (Ruda Śląska, Poland),
  87. sensei Jack Skocinsky 1 dan (Chicago, USA),
  88. sensei Sławomir Szczepaniak 1 dan (Krośniewice, Poland),
  89. sensei Mariusz Świątkiewicz 1 dan (Wola Prażmowska, Poland),
  90. sensei Radosław Świdersky 1 dan (Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland),
  91. sensei Roman Waleriańczyk 1 dan (Kołobrzeg, Poland),
  92. sensei Arkadiusz Wiewiórowsky 1 dan (Warsaw, Poland),
  93. sensei Alex Vigura 1 dan (Moscow, Russia),
  94. sensei Artur Wojdat 1 dan (Płock, Poland),
  95. sensei Robert Wółkiewicz 1 dan (Płock, Poland),
  96. sensei Andrew Zagórowicz 1 dan (Łowicz, Poland),
  97. sensei George Zaskiewicz 1 dan (Elbląg, Poland),
  98. sensei David Zira 1 dan (Tel Aviv, Israel),
  99. sensei Bogdan Zwierz 1 dan (Łomża, Poland).
From reason of popularity and attractive of tsunami system take place sometimes situations, that some mad persons cheated pretend to be representatives of tsunami system, and even instructors and tsunami masters.

Than officially (in name of tsunami system and the founder of this system soke Richard Murat 10 dan) we give to knowledge all interested, than person, which is not visible above list and pretends to be tsunami master, is liar and deceives others, because is not tsunami master and with tsunami system does not have nothing to do with..

This subject one can additionally check being in contact with Tsunami Honbu Dojo (Tsunami Central Office and Headquarters): honbu@karatetsunami.org
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