Dave,
Thank you for the answer. I feel you have a good handle on it.
Many I have seen add an extra kata or two as a way to get more into a system that is basicly not really that full of kata. Many do the same thing with drills and time in grade.
Not many should be above 5th in my opinon and very few where Ted has gone, and if you look at the system it is obvious it is a solid outfit not a dozen or more breaking off and starting their own, and becoming 10s in a system that is just a make believe...
Bruce Juchnik broke off, but he calls himself "Hanshi" that is around 7th in some 8th in others, and not a GM at all.
He has been awarded higher in other systems but not in his own, student and last disciple he mentions. That is good imo...That part, of it anyway.
His teaching has reached about 20 katas LOL...Selling a product is what that is all about.
Regards,
Gary
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