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My Shotokan school uses the following belts:

 

white (8th kyu)

 

yellow (7th kyu)

 

orange (6th kyu)

 

green (5th kyu)

 

blue (4th kyu)

 

brown (3rd kyu)

 

brown (2nd kyu)

 

brown (1st kyu)

 

black (1st dan)

"Practising karate means a lifetime of hard work."

~Gichin Funakoshi

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white

 

yellow (shichi-kyu)

 

orange (roku-kyu)

 

green (go-kyu)

 

purple (yon-kyu)

 

brown (san-kyu, ni-kyu, ik-kyu)

 

black belt (sho-dan - go-dan)

 

Red and white belt (roku-dan - hachi-dan)

 

Red belt (ku-dan, ju-dan)

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That's funny , so many different ways to do the same thing.

 

White

 

yellow

 

orange

 

green

 

purple

 

blue

 

brown

 

brown

 

brown

 

black and then you start training

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I was majorly confused about the red belt question cause it seens that there are lots of schools who don´t use that belt.

 

The red belt in Japanese martial arts was traditionally used by the judokas (The belt system in Karate came from the Judo system). However, the red belt was not imported with the system initially. Even in Judo, it is a ceremonial belt (6th dan - 8th dan used the white/red belt, 9th dan - 10th dan used the red belt). Some karate schools imported the red belt system in order to differentiate their "6th dan and above" from others. But looking at the clubs in Japan (JKA, JKS), none of the shihans use the red belt.

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It's funny how the belt color and ranking differ from a Shotokan style to another.. here's our JKA Shotokan belts (under Sensei Yamaguchi)

 

White - Kyu 9

 

Yellow - Kyu 8

 

Orange - Kyu 7

 

Green - Kyu 6

 

Blue - Kyu 5

 

Purple - Kyu 4

 

Brown - Kyu 3, 2, 1

 

Black

 

However in Japan, they only have white and black :karate:

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Here's another. No pretty colours for us:

 

white - unranked

 

white - 8th kyu

 

white - 7th kyu

 

white - 6th kyu

 

white - 5th kyu

 

white - 4th kyu

 

brown - 3rd kyu

 

brown - 2nd kyu

 

brown - 1st kyu

 

black - shodan

 

black - nidan

 

black - sandan

 

black - yodan

 

black - godan

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