What belt are you?
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I hold Blue Belt ranks in both Jiu Jitsu and Judo. We dont have formal testing in our club. If you know it, you know it. Also, Blue Belt rank in Combat Hapkido, and Green Belt rank in Budokai...however, I haven't studied the last two in years.0
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In order of attainment:
1st Degree Black Belt - Shorin-Ryu Karate
Brown Belt - Judo
Brown Belt - Jiu Jitsu
No Belt - Aikido
Brown Belt - Kung Fu
3rd Degree Black Belt -- Tae Kwon Do
Bounced around a little over the years. Started taking Shorin-Ryu in Okinawa in 1974. Acheived my Black Belt before returning to the U.S. Back at that time there wasn't a Martial Arts Studio on every corner. Not being able to find another Shorin-Ryu School caused me to bounce from one place to another until I eventually found TKD. It's not so much finding the right discipline for me as it is finding the right Instructor. I found that instructor in Master Moon Kyu Im and have practiced TKD ever since. I have about 38 years of learning, practicing and teaching under my belt now. I had my own school in California and, eventually, Oregon.0 -
Muay thai doesn't have belt rankings, but I've been doing it for five years... The school where I started out would have testing for belts, it was just an in-school thing to separate the more advanced students. Their black belt tests are about 6 hours long. I started testing for black belt, but quit and joined another school when the owner went bat****. And that's my story!0
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WHITE BELT!
I take krav maga through the KAMI Association, which is one of the two schools in Israel. We basically use a judo belt system. Minimum time to each rank thus:
yellow - 3 months from the beginning of training
orange - 3 months from previous belt
green - 1 year from previous belt
blue - 1 year from previous belt
brown - 1 year from previous belt
black, dan 1 - 1 year from previous belt
black, dan 2 - 2 years from previous belt
black, additional dans - 5 years between ranks for active practitioners
Once you reach orange, you can take a deputy instructors course with your teacher's permission. Then there is an instructors course for blue belts, but the instructor certificate is only granted once the student becomes a black belt. At dan 2, you can take a teachers or senior teachers course if you have an instructors certificate, your own teacher's permission, and you meet certain criteria.
My teacher is a black belt, dan 6. :glasses:0 -
I am a 1st dan Black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I haven't practiced in over a year though. I was very active in Tae Kwon Do for 6 years from middle school to high school before I ended up quitting due to the time commitment. I really missed it though so I started up in college, but the teachers were terrible. I knew my form had suffered from the years off, but I still knew what the correct form was unlike my teachers. Having an instructor tell me my spin kick had perfect form was the last straw. I admittedly have a terrible spin kick and always have. I decided to quit again since the training was so poor. I am hoping to find another Tae Kwon Do studio with higher standards soon, but need to get back into martial arts shape first.0
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i will always be a white belt in JJ. I train but I don't compete. We don't move up in belts unless we submit opponents in tournaments.0
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My Kung Fu instructor did not believe in a belt system. (He was murdered in my 7th year of training and now there are only hand full of us still practicing) He felt that it bred egos in the school. We did have "groups" though to identify us:
Beginner
Novice
Advanced
Our style is a combination of Shaolin, Wing Chun, with a bit of the animal styles, Jeet Kune Do and street fighting sprinkled on top. LOL
Being an advanced student I would help train the beginners, work with the novices and all of the advanced students generally would get extra training time with the teacher. At tournaments I would enter as a brown or black belt.
The last tournament I was in was a memorial tournament for my teacher and I have not been in one since. I don't plan on tournament fighting again however I do still spar on occasion with former classmates.0 -
Mommy TKD - It's the same belt system for ITF taekwondo in Britain. I'm currently a green belt and have to do 2 step sparring and break a board for my next grading so have been putting it off!0
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Hi all,
I train Krav Maga in KMG organisation and I'm Practitioner 1st degree (P1). I train more than a year but I'm not very interested in belts
When I was teenager I trained Taekwondo and I have Red belt with stripe.
Later I trained Bujinkan Ninjutsu and i have 6th kyu (I think this is equal to green belt in karate).
IMHO, belts/grades are necessary .. there is no many people who can train something for a years without some kind of grading. But belts and grades must not be purpose for themselves . .they are just indicators of skill. And practitioners must not train to have belt but train to have skill, and belt is just certificate.
Regards
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Belts become less important as you have longevity in an art (at least in my opinion). I found as a young aikidoka rank was very important, but as I age and as I have a longer and longer history, it seems to become less and less important. My first Dan (black belt) grade was very important for me and my second less so, but still important. My third was only important in that I had my own dojo at the time (but wasn't really that important anymore), and my fourth was a total surprise as I have been sidelined with a bad hip for a couple of years, but still involved, just not practicing much at all. At this point, after 30-years in the art, with a few off for bad behavior, it is relevant but not important. None of my practing friends care what each others ranks are and the only time it ever seems to rear its head is at seminars, and even then not so much.
Just enjoying the ride here, and hoping for 30-more years, most of it on the mat (hope losing weight will help with this bum hip!!!).0 -
I completely agree with you rachmass1 ! There is a beginner student I spar with frequently, and though he was never able to get to an advanced level, his strengths help me work on my weaknesses and vice verse. We just love the art of Kung Fu 0
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American Combat Jujitsu - Sandan (3rd Degree Black Belt) (American Jujitsu Association rank)
Jujitsu - Shodan (1st Degree Black Belt) (Jujitsu America rank)
Brazilian Jujitsu - Blue Belt, No Stripes (Mario Aiello affiliate)
Nice to see so many fellow martial artists 0 -
Hey Everybody
I figured I'd jump in here.
I trained some martial arts in high school and it never really stuck.
I joined a Wado Ryu Dojo and have been training there for about 8 months. It a really traditional Dojo and I'm now an Orange Belt.
About 3 months ago a joined another Wado School close to my home and recently tested in as a Purple belt. I now train at each about twice a week.
Wado Belt System - White - Yellow - Orange - Blue - Purple - Green - Brown - Black. As far as Degrees/Tips/Candidates, they differ by School.0 -
I train in Tang Soo Do (Traditional Korean Martial Art), have been training for 3 plus years, I have obtained my 1st Degree black belt.0
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I dont currently train in a class but when i left the school after eleven years, i left a 2nd dan black belt. My sensei Grandmaster Roberts trained under a variety of well-known people including Adrien Emperado (one of the founders of kajukenbo), Ki Whang Kim, and Hwang Kee (Tang soo Do Moo Duk Kwan founder)...
Our belts went like this:
White
Yellow stripe
Yellow
Orange
Green
Blue
Purple
Red
Brown
Black stripe
Black
Then all the "dans" or "ranks" and so on..
The original school has since closed. When my sensei retired and moved back to Hawaii, he left the school in the hands of a great martial artist, but not a great businessman. Black belt masters from our school have opened schools of their own teaching our original curriculum in VA, PA and OH. Also my sensei's son runs his own school out of MD.0 -
Muay thai doesn't have belt rankings, but I've been doing it for five years... The school where I started out would have testing for belts, it was just an in-school thing to separate the more advanced students. Their black belt tests are about 6 hours long. I started testing for black belt, but quit and joined another school when the owner went bat****. And that's my story!
Fight records are generally used as a gauge of skill level more so than belts in Muay Thai. After training Tae Kwon Do for a long time as I kid I see the testing for belts as a source of revenue for the school more than anything.0 -
I'm an Orange belt in Tae Kwon Do. I have had two testings so far, and scheduled to have my third (for Green Belt) at the end of this month.0
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I have a blue belt in BJJ, but I've only trained a handful of times in the last 3 years. The last time it was with a very good blue belt, a very good wrestler and an absolute novice. I did fine with the novice, split about even with the wrestler (he crushed me while on top, I eked by while he was on bottom) and was worked over quite a bit by the blue.
Miss it, but there's no time for it these days
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BJJ Purple0
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Hello! I just tested for and passed my test for 1st Dan black belt in Tae Kwon Do with Yong In Martial Arts. My school consists of 10 belt levels before reaching black belt which took me a little over three years to make my way through. It is nice finally reaching black belt, but I know it is only the beginning. 0
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Congrats!0
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I am a green belt in Judo and a White in Karate. Was about to test for brown before I got injured.
Standard Judo rankings. White Yellow Orange Green Brown Brown Brown Black
Our Karate instructor just does White Green Brown Black.0 -
Before I had to stop, I was a green belt in Goshin Ryu karate, a green belt in Judo, and a green belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, which is pretty much just a glorified white belt, I know.0
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Tae Kwon Do (AIMAA). Green belt. I train with Grandmaster Ameris in Pittsburgh. Green belt is 4th level - white, yellow, orange, green. No notches, no stripes. You test when they tell you that you are ready. Some people may be 2 months, others may be 6. It's not about how many classss you attend, it's about your skill level, what you have maintained, and when they feel you are ready to move to the next level. I love it! Sparring is probably my favorite. I also take a kickboxing class. I suppose I like to punch and kick things.0
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Tae Kwon Do (AIMAA). Green belt. I train with Grandmaster Ameris in Pittsburgh. Green belt is 4th level - white, yellow, orange, green. No notches, no stripes. You test when they tell you that you are ready. Some people may be 2 months, others may be 6. It's not about how many classss you attend, it's about your skill level, what you have maintained, and when they feel you are ready to move to the next level. I love it! Sparring is probably my favorite. I also take a kickboxing class. I suppose I like to punch and kick things.
I'm going for my green belt at the end of the month. My instructor has similar principles as far as testing is concerened, but he does take into account how many classes you attend. Obviously he won't test you if you go once a week. He feels that if you go at least 2-3 times a week, that you'll absorb the forms, techniques, as well as have the cardio for when test times comes.0
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