u/ninman5

If you put a fuck ton of salt in meat it lasts longer. So if I bathe in salt will I live forever,

I'm wondering if that's possible and what the resulting animal would be.

I mean all it would take a few guys with spades.

So it's been confirmed by JKA HQ that I am banned from the organisation as a whole, primarily for reporting my instructor to the police for crimes that if he were convicted of could potentially result in up to the 3 years in prison.

I told the head of my local JKA organisation here, and his statement, which came from JKA HQ was that that makes my return impossible, i.e. the severity of the crime is directly linked to the severity of my ban.

This makes me seriously question whether the JKA should be allowed to operate in any European countries at all, given that anyone who reports a crime is at risk of a ban. Imagine if children were being abused and the parents, or the child themselves reported it? Banned.

It's a chilling effect. What's worse is that I'm a disabled member who got threatened and intimidated by a senior instructor, reported it in good faith to the proper authorities and got a global lifetime ban for it.

The JKA said that what I did "harmed the organisation and individuals within it". That's their attitude. Reporting crimes harms the organisation. Therefore, the victim and reportee is the one that gets the banned, not the person who committed the crime.

I would also add that the JKA are monitoring my posts and took steps to identify me, despite my posts being anonymous. I also posted comparing the grading standards in my home country vs the country I'm currently living in and quoted facts I was given by an instructor there. They also took steps to identify who that instructor was and pressured him to cease contact with me. He even told me that simply talking to me was "getting involved" and refused to talk to me further.

They even said as part of the ban that my "online criticism" made it clear that my understanding of karate differs from theirs and so I can't be accepted back into the organisation.

I think it's extremely dangerous that they behave this way, and they should be deaffiliated and banned from operating in any country outside of Japan, because there are serious question marks about member safety, especially for children.