ExplloRenose said
Note that the gamers are all average people (I mean, your chara could have practiced martial arts, but you wouldn't have been a master, just an average person who knew some martial arts, kind of like Rainer was, a chara whose player just disappeared early in the RP. He knew martial arts, but that was it). There is a reason for this as well. For them being mostly average.
Here is the thing though, I wanted my character to be formally trained by a school. I'm thinking I want to set her in her late teens, but the average minimum age for a black belt in many martial arts is 15. Tae kwon do has no standards like this until 3rd dan testing. however, to grt a shot at a promotion chance, you have to prove the 5 tenants and uphold them. So you get a shot based on your character.
Since Capoeria does not have a formal ranking system, I'd believe that the Tae Kwon Do belt ranking would be used. In total it would take about 7 years to reach a belt rank, with 40 hours a month dedicated to training. On average, a new student would actually take 3 years to reach a black belt. Taking into account that Capoeria training would probably start in the first year, I'd say it would take around 4 years for my character to reach black belt. So, keeping the age in mind and adjusting for maturity, my character would have been 14 when she would receive her first black belt. So by the time she is 19, she'd probably be a third degree that is in the early stages of training for her fourth degree black belt. (Typically, rank of black belt=amount of years required before a promotion test can be taken. One year is taken off since the minimum hours per month is only 40. My character would have devoted much more time than 1 hour a day devoted to training. Probably closer to 5 hours per day (About 150 hours per month).
This actually plays out nicely, since to be promoted to 4th Dan, she will HAVE to be 27. That is the first age requirement since 4th Dan black belts can actually test others for their First Degree Black Belts in Tae Kwon Do. As she is now, she can test under the supervision of a Grandmaster (8th Degree), but not for Black Belts.
I want to hash this part out before I finish my character. She essentially, grew up in a private school in a way. Yes, she trained a lot, but she was still being taught in accordance to a normal school system. But of course, she barely knows how to work a cell phone...this will be fun.
For the record: She will not have access to Magic (outside of meditation), nor will she use weaponry aside from things on her hands and throwing projectiles. She never Learned how to use a blade, bow, or hammer.