Cruentus
Grandmaster
Hello Cruentus and Palusut,
One time, with 2 students, we wanted to fail them, because they were not good, GM Remy said: give them probational black belt. For we don't have his they failed.
Regards
Dieter
Yup, that sounds like Professor; always willing to compromise and try to make everyone happy. I remember some cases like that too. Usually it was when someone was trying to skip 2 or 3 levels of brown to get a black when they weren't really ready for it, and as a compromise they would get something, just not what they were testing for. When I was on the testing board that happened a few times.
So I can see what you are saying, even though I think the original purpose for Lakan 0 was not due to this compromise.