Black or Midnight Blue

[FETKD]

Just wondering, this isn't really that much of a big deal.

Do you prefer the Black Belt, or Midnight Blue belt to be the "highest" belt.

So the story goes, before the ranking system, and almost everyone has heard this. There was one belt, and after years of training, and I mean YEARS the blood and sweat,and mud and rain from training had soaked into the belt causing it to turn a "blackish color" when in reality this color was midnight blue, (a very dark blue)

I've only seen like two schools use the midnght blue belt, and it looks really cool. what do you think

To me it does't so much matter, it's the symbol not the color that matters to me. To me the Black belt represens the martial artists spirit, sort of an embodiment of all s/he's been through to get to this point, and now, finally they are ready to learn what it means to be a martial artist, the black belt is the true beginning.

Sort of like the Zen story "Empty your cup" Black reprsents an absence of light, thus and absence of knowledge, with an empty mind the martial artist can finally begin to take in all the martial arts has to offer.

[SANCHIN31]

This is a nice story,but it's not true,it's just a myth.

[FETKD]

Yeah that's why I said as the "story' goes, heh

[Mu Ryuk]

The midnight blue belt is strictly a traditional Tang Soo Do thing. The original belt system (Judo) used a black belt. Hwang Kee used midnight blue instead of black for two reasons;

1) Black represents death, and he didn't want that.

2) By that point, the black belt had become a sort of "symbol", and to non martial artists, black belt seemed like the end. Hwang Kee didn't want it to be seen that way, so he used a midnight blue belt instead.

[Aodhan]

The midnight blue belt is strictly a traditional Tang Soo Do thing. The original belt system (Judo) used a black belt. Hwang Kee used midnight blue instead of black for two reasons;

1) Black represents death, and he didn't want that.

2) By that point, the black belt had become a sort of "symbol", and to non martial artists, black belt seemed like the end. Hwang Kee didn't want it to be seen that way, so he used a midnight blue belt instead.

I thought in Asian cultures, White was considered to be the color of mourning and death?

Aodhan

[Shorin Ryuu]

Shhhh. You might distract from the likely truth which is that the Korean styles doing this simply wanted to distinguish themselves from their mainly Japanese origins.

[Mu Ryuk]

Shhhh. You might distract from the likely truth which is that the Korean styles doing this simply wanted to distinguish themselves from their mainly Japanese origins.

What? Never!

*Looks around sneakily*

[FETKD]

Ha Ha yes yes.