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Originally Posted by wsdddoa012
Well since the black belt nowdays seems to mean soo many things to different people, I thought I'd just give my two cents now.
"The only thing the belt is good for is holding your pants up, let's spar shall we?"
Maturity in the arts, and holding your pants up. Seem too complicated? I still say we should go back to the old days when all the students wore a white belt, never washed it and as the years grew the belt became different colors because of the long time of training, green, yellow, brown then after about 20-30 years maybe black. But of course that's up for speculation, I think It's a good concept myself. Tell that to any of my students 
BTW: would a loop belt be better then a strap on belt for my size 80 jeans? haha!!! |
That is a myth. It never was that way in the "old days".
Jigoro Kano invented the use of the color belt system back in the later 1800's for his Elementary school Judo students. Gichin Funakoshi copied the idea for Karate, then it took off from there. The original colors were white, red and black, the official colors of Japan at that time.
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