"Fix it...you're a Black Belt now."

I have learned basic motion. I have learned the tricks to some techniques that enable me to do them with ease. I have practiced them for three years. But now, when I do them, I hear, "What are you doing?" To which I reply, "What I learned." This results in, "But you're a Black Belt now." WTF?!

The curriculum is set to teach a simple amount of techniques as a student progresses. At Black Belt, all that is required is to do the current techniques with more precision and weapons techniques are included. But I have yet to find out what is expected to be seen of me at this stage of the game. When I have concerns, I am simply told to come to the next class...okay. So, I come to the next class. I continue to do what I have been learning to do...only to be told, "No, no. You're a Black Belt now, you're suppose to do it like this." "I'm sorry, I must not have gotten that memo."

I am not going to ask for some Black Belt to take me under his or her wing because I am tired of getting the stink-eye, the stare, a shrug of the shoulders or, my favorite and yours, "Come to the next class". Coming to the next class isn't the problem. Wanting not to look like a bag-of-ass while doing my techniques and understanding what a 1st Dan should look like is what I would like to know. The basic movements that current 1st Dans can do...I can't not do. Its humiliating and embarrassing to not be able to perform on par with the others that hold the same rank as myself. I am truly at a loss of what I should do.