P.A.L Posted December 16, 2004 Posted December 16, 2004 I am a white belt ,every time my sensei uses a marker and add some yellow to my belt, hopefully after some times i'll be a yellow belt.
Luckykboxer Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 We do it in our system of Kenpo.... its relatively new. We call it Junior Belts. for example... our normal progression goes.... white yellow orange purple blue green red 3rd Brown 2nd Brown 1st Brown Black but for children, younger kids, teens dont do it... it goes. white junior yellow yellow junior orange orange junior purple purple blue green red 3rd Brown 2nd Brown 1st Brown Black As you see there are only 3 junior ranks. basically the junior ranks are only for basics. this system was done primarily to keep young kids in the system. younger kids have a harder time remembering and concentrating, and holding in more information. This allows us to focus on the basics necessary for each belt so the younger kids not only stay focused and retain more, but they stay interested and have a longer stay in the martial arts. each belt rank has 6 stripes for basics and 6 stripes for curriculum. the junior belts just work on the basics first. We expect everyone else to retain and learn all at once and not broken up as we do for the kids. I have a strong feeling that if not for the monetary factors of trying to retain students longer you would not have ever seen junior or half belt rankings. hope this helps explain it from my perspective decently
Goju 4 Life Posted December 18, 2004 Posted December 18, 2004 If a school has 10 ranks within it's ten belts and charges money for each stripe, you may be in an overpriced McDojo. In our school we have grades for brown belts and black belts If i had to choose between karate and everything else, I would choose karate so i could beat up whoever made me make the decision and have everything else
Kaminari Posted December 18, 2004 Posted December 18, 2004 In my Karate dojo it was white, then progressively get three stripes and test, yellow, three stripes, etc. White Yellow Orange Blue Purple Green Red Brown 1st (sort of a temporary) Black Black My dojo didn't charge for stripes, or I wouldn't have stayed there long. The smaller kids (from 4 to about seven and eight years old), we had this system: White White with two horizontal yellow stripes White with two horizontal orange stripes White with two horizontal blue stripes... And so on and so on, until they got to the white belt with two horizontal black stripes, and they next tested for the regular white, where they would progress through the regular belts.
karatekid1975 Posted December 18, 2004 Posted December 18, 2004 I forgot to say how my school grades now. We get three stripes on each belt before testing for the next color belt. We have 8 color belts .... white, orange, yellow, green, purple, blue, brown, red. Red belts have two ranks. Red and senior red they call it. We still get three stripes, but senior red have an extra thick black stripe on the right side of the belt. The three smaller ones (on the left) come off and then you get three more. Then you can test for prob. black. There is no charge for stripe testing. They do charge for belt test, though. $5 to cover the belt. That's it. Laurie F
vertigo Posted December 18, 2004 Posted December 18, 2004 I guess I never realized how few belt colors we really use at my university club until I read this post! We only have 6! White - 9th Kyu Orange - 8th, 7th Green - 6th Purple - 5th, 4th Brown - 3rd, 2nd, 1st Black We don't have any system for telling the difference on sight between same color/different kyu belts. So if there's an orange belt, and you have no idea what specific kyu he is? Ask "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Eliot
Kane Posted December 19, 2004 Posted December 19, 2004 I guess I never realized how few belt colors we really use at my university club until I read this post! We only have 6! White - 9th Kyu Orange - 8th, 7th Green - 6th Purple - 5th, 4th Brown - 3rd, 2nd, 1st Black We don't have any system for telling the difference on sight between same color/different kyu belts. So if there's an orange belt, and you have no idea what specific kyu he is? Ask We use: white - 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th kyu brown - 3rd, 2nd, 1st kyu black - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th dan
hayashi ha shito ryu Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 My Karate Class (Shito Ryu) once u get to black belt u start to get dans wicj right now iam a 2 dan black belt
strangepair03 Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 our dojo has White-10-9-8-7 kyu Green-6-5-4 kyu Brown-3-2-1 Kyu Black Belt It is not unusual to see a slightly frayed white belt, also when we go to seminars, it is sometimes funny to see a white belt still standing and running thru kata with yellow,orange,blue, green or what ever spectrum of colors some other dojo's have from 10-7th kyu, same with green belts...brown are usually the same. A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscrimately.Kyan Chotoku Sensei
aefibird Posted January 1, 2005 Posted January 1, 2005 In my old Aikido club we used to have white belts for 7th-1st Kyu and black belt for 1st Dan onwards. My karate club has the following system. Personally I dislike it and would like to ditch the stripe belts, as I think we have too many colours and too many kyu grades. 10th kyu - white 9th kyu - orange 8th kyu - red 7th kyu - yellow 6th kyu - green 5th kyu - purple 4th kyu - purple with a white stripe 3rd kyu - brown 2nd kyu - brown with a white stripe 1st kyu - brown with 2 white stripes 1st dan onwards - black The belt system is the same for adults and juniors. "Was it really worth it? Only time and death may ever tell..." The Beautiful South - The Rose of My CologneSheffield Steelers!
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