Read this about belts

[Nidan Melbourne]

Recently there was an international karate seminar organised by the author of karatebyjesse.com and read this of what he did at this seminar.

http://www.karatebyjesse.com/pink-belts-karate-knx-seminar/

He changed everyone's rank for this to a Pink Belt! this is to remove the ego of those who attended and to make everyone remember that they are an equal.

[Archimoto]

Super cool ! Thanks !

[Nidan Melbourne]

I found it really interesting of what they did.

[Harkon72]

This is not so remarkable; in our Aikido club, everyone wares a white belt, some there have trained for 30 years and still ware a white belt. No belts, no grades, no ego. The only other color of belt is black and our sensei wares that. We had 8 visiting Akidoka from sister clubs in Ireland, The Isle of Mann and Holland, they wore hakama after many years of practice; but underneath their belts were white.

[clfsean]

Leung Shum of Ying Jow Pai (Eagle Claw) starts everybody off with a black sash "so now you have a black belt, we can just focus on training".

Which this by the by isn't unusual in TCMAs since most of the time sashes are used to notate schools & affiliations, not ranks at least "back in the day". Very few still continue that practice unfortunately.

[mal103]

Great concept, when I train I often get everyone to do the same stuff, I also occasionally mix up the ranks/grades so you're not always training next to the same person.

Belts are a good and bad thing which I would happily do without.

[Zaine]

Cool article, thanks for sharing!

I like the idea of doing this at seminars. It shows everyone that they are there to learn first and worry about rank never.

[cheesefrysamurai]

This is not so remarkable; in our Aikido club, everyone wares a white belt, some there have trained for 30 years and still ware a white belt. No belts, no grades, no ego. The only other color of belt is black and our sensei wares that. We had 8 visiting Akidoka from sister clubs in Ireland, The Isle of Mann and Holland, they wore hakama after many years of practice; but underneath their belts were white.

I disagree with you. You take the unique nature of your club for granted.

I think your clubs attitude towards rank says a lot about your school, that your humble, have pure intentions, check your ego at the door- very cool.....

But

This is a different situation. It was a gathering of many schools where rank plays a big part. This I'm sure was shocking to a lot of these people. And it may have been done to teach a lesson in humility and to foster learning and focus everyone's attention on the lesson being taught, removing the distraction that may be accompanied with hierarchy.

It is remarkable. And so is your school, perhaps more so because you adopted the concept full time.

[Zaine]

This is not so remarkable; in our Aikido club, everyone wares a white belt, some there have trained for 30 years and still ware a white belt. No belts, no grades, no ego. The only other color of belt is black and our sensei wares that. We had 8 visiting Akidoka from sister clubs in Ireland, The Isle of Mann and Holland, they wore hakama after many years of practice; but underneath their belts were white.

I disagree with you. You take the unique nature of your club for granted.

I think your clubs attitude towards rank says a lot about your school, that your humble, have pure intentions, check your ego at the door- very cool.....

But

This is a different situation. It was a gathering of many schools where rank plays a big part. This I'm sure was shocking to a lot of these people. And it may have been done to teach a lesson in humility and to foster learning and focus everyone's attention on the lesson being taught, removing the distraction that may be accompanied with hierarchy.

It is remarkable. And so is your school, perhaps more so because you adopted the concept full time.

Solid post!

[Luther unleashed]

the bottom line is people are who they are, and belt colors are just another reason to boast, but without question NOT the only readon and i think the good in him doing that is it is up to the schools instructors to set the tone about what type of attitude is expected, thats one way to do it.