belt colors

[TUF]

you might laugh at me but i don't know how the belt color thing works? what do the colors mean

[cakegirl]

For what sport?

[OSHIEGO]

White, Blue, Purple, Brown And Black.

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[Hardball]

It varies from system to system and school to school. About the only universal ones are white, brown and black.

[cakegirl]

And it varies between arts too.

Most BJJ schools I have seen are white blue purple brown black, with red for "grandmaster", e.g. Helio and Rorion. There's usually a different colour range for kids, something like white yellow orange green blue, with the idea that by the time the kid is blue, they'll be old/big enough to train with the adults, and the blue is considered equal to an adult blue belt.

But other arts can be completely different, and I'm sure some BJJ schools are completely different. Some schools have no colour - just white and black. Some have a lot of colour. (my karate school has white green blue purple yellow orange red brown black.) Some schools put stripes on the belt, some schools don't. And so on.

[Hardball]

At our school we had something called the "Orange Belt Curse" Orange belt came after yellow and everyone got into some type of street fight when they became an orange belt. Thus the "Orange Belt Course"

[cjb]

in bjj it goes:
white beginner

blue-5months-3yrs, basic skills, good tech., basic timming, and must be able to hang with other blue belts, can dominate beginners

purple- 1 1/2yrs-5yrs, intermediate skills, good timming, uses solid combo's, must be able to hang with other purples

brown- 2 1/2yrs- 7yrs, advanced skills, excelent timing, use of strategie, can hang with browns and presents some game to black belts

black- 3yrs-18yrs- a level beyond all other's, can dominate all below

if you need any othre info bjj belts, check out rickson gracies site it explains the belts really well

sorry about any spelling mistakes

[47MartialMan]

Belt colors were introduced primarily outside of Asian arts as more of a visual means to observe/award levels of progress.

In the 60's-early70's when I was in the beginning of my martial art path, there were no colors. The emphasis was on training for knowledge and acquired skills, not acquiring colored belts/rank.

[academian]

as the story goes :in the old days it was considered bad luck to wash the belt. so as training progressed a students experience could be determined by how black his belt had become. beginners could be identified easily because they had a clean white belt and intermediate students could be identified by their belts being brown.and of course the instructors belts were very black from the many years of training that they had endured. yes academian is back!

[DimMak]

Originally Posted by 47MartialMan

Belt colors were introduced primarily outside of Asian arts as more of a visual means to observe/award levels of progress.

In the 60's-early70's when I was in the beginning of my martial art path, there were no colors. The emphasis was on training for knowledge and acquired skills, not acquiring colored belts/rank.

And what planet were you living on in the 60's-early70's 47MartialMan?
The one I was living on had belt colors during that time...

[47MartialMan]

Originally Posted by academian

as the story goes :in the old days it was considered bad luck to wash the belt. so as training progressed a students experience could be determined by how black his belt had become. beginners could be identified easily because they had a clean white belt and intermediate students could be identified by their belts being brown.and of course the instructors belts were very black from the many years of training that they had endured. yes academian is back!

This is false. Is you are referring to Japanese arts, such as Judo. The Japanese back then are a people whom like to be cleansed and clean. They have a culture of hygiene. Why would such a culture not wash a piece of their attire which is designed to keep the robe closed and the trousers up?

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[47MartialMan]

Originally Posted by DimMak

And what planet were you living on in the 60's-early70's 47MartialMan?
The one I was living on had belt colors during that time...

Yes, some arts had them. But they werent as prodominant like they are now. The ones that I had studied-then, did not. They were not concrened with colorful-inaccurate methods to display levels of skill. Skill was acquired after due learning process, not after set time and fee.

And, were you a practicing martial artist or lived on the planet at that time?

[DimMak]

Quote:
Originally Posted by 47MartialMan

In the 60's-early70's when I was in the beginning of my martial art path, there were no colors. The emphasis was on training for knowledge and acquired skills, not acquiring colored belts/rank.


[QUOTE=DimMak]And what planet were you living on in the 60's-early70's 47MartialMan?
The one I was living on had belt colors during that time...

Originally Posted by 47MartialMan

Yes, some arts had them.

Nice of you to admit to your rather large error 47MartialMan...one tends to give the forum more credibility when posting accurate information

[47MartialMan]

[QUOTE=DimMak]Quote:
Originally Posted by 47MartialMan

In the 60's-early70's when I was in the beginning of my martial art path, there were no colors. The emphasis was on training for knowledge and acquired skills, not acquiring colored belts/rank.

Originally Posted by DimMak

And what planet were you living on in the 60's-early70's 47MartialMan?
The one I was living on had belt colors during that time...




Nice of you to admit to your rather large error 47MartialMan...one tends to give the forum more credibility when posting accurate information

What is wrong with you? I admit no error. I made a statement of MY martial art path.

Perhaps why you are no longer on other forums? You have not answered my two questions;

How old are you?
How long have you been in the martial arts?

You want to mix words with your fanatasies?