Belt Progression in your style.

[Grego]

He's just kinda introduced it, and hasn't been implemented yet.

I'm pretty sure that there stripes. white belts get a black stripe added to the end up the belt with each rank. Brown and green start with three white stripes, and then go down to one.

At least I hope he keeps it that way, so I don't have to change the stripes on my green belt.

[bushido_man96]

Cool. Thanks.

[Grego]

yeah, since we're a free school, theres no sense in having a bunch of ranks and belts that people need to spend money on.

As of right now, we don't even have a building, we've taken to practicing in the local park in street clothes, so we don't even wear our gis very often.

But, Sensei is a very talented Martial Artist, and I'd rather train in the park with him than in the best dojo in the world under a less talented artist.

[bushido_man96]

As long as you are enjoying it, and you feel you are benfitting from what you are learning in self-defense as well as other aspects, then that is great. Training outside can be fun at times.

My dad tells me about the "old" days when he did TKD, and there were only 5 belt ranks. At times, I don't think I would mind going back to that setup.

[Grego]

I completely agree.

"Old" ways are fun. No pads during sparring, hardcore instructors, standing in zenkutsudachi until your legs shake

[Traymond]

Yeah, but when you order gi's from Shureido they come in a tint of blue, they stay that way till like 2-5 months.

That blue tint is an anti fungal treatment that the material is dipped in to prevent it from getting moldy etc during storage.

WNM

Thats what I heard, I actually wished mine wouldn't turn all white I actually liked that light blue tint, it added some character to my gi unlike all the plain whites, and the blue was actually extremely light it was almost unnoticeable unless you were in close quarters....even the black shureido you can see the blue its beautiful.

[nacal]

My school is uses the following belt ranks;

White

White w/yellow stripe

Yellow

Yellow w/Orange stripe

Orange

Green

Blue

Red

Brown (1,2,3)

Black provisioval - shodan-ho

Black

When I train at home I wear my original white belt, its four years old and it has never been washed. Looks a little like the colour of bleached bone.

Thats after training outside most of the time, gonna take a long time to get to that dirty brown black colour!

[Throwdown0850]

kodokan Judo

White

Brown ( 3 lvls )

Black

[IFoughtTheLaw]

white

yellow

orange (1,2)

green (1,2

brown (1,2,3)

[quinteros1963]

I've noticed that even within the same styles, there are many differences in colored belts. What is the color progression in your syle. We go :

white

gold 1 and 2

orange 1 and 2

purple 1 and 2

green 1,2and 3

brown 1,2, and 3

black

white -no rank

gold 1 and 2 - 10 th kyu

orange 1 and 2 - 9-8 th kyu

purple 1 and 2 - 7th Kyu

green 1,2and 3 6-4th kyu

brown 1,2, and 3 3rd - 1st kyu