belt system

[AMP-RYU]

just curious to your belt systems in your schools?


mine goes:

White to white 3 yellow stripes
Yellow to yellow 2 orange stripes
Orange to Orange 1 green stripe
Green to green 2 blue stripes
Blue to blue 2 purple stripes
Purple to purple 1 red stripe
Red to red 1 brown stripe
Brown to brown 1 black stripe
Black to black 9 white stripes

 

[Twin Fist]

white
gold
orange
purple
green
blue
4th brown
3rd brown
2nd brown
1st brown
Black
1st black -red stripe

etc

 

[zeeberex]

white
gold
orange
purple
green
blue
4th brown
3rd brown
2nd brown
1st brown
Black
1st black -red stripe

etc

Belts are often not an accurate expression of levels of skill, gold? orange, blue, no tartan? oyyyyyyyyy...

 

[tellner]

The guy up teaching the class is the teacher.
Everyone else is students.

 

[IcemanSK]

We use a 10 gup system. The color belts we use are:
White
Yellow
Gold
Orange
Green
Purple
Blue
Red
Brown
Brown w/ black stripe

Then Black

 

[Korppi76]

We have:
white
black
Total 6 whites and 6-8 blacks now, no stripes.

And in other arts, also with no stripes:
white,
yellow,
orange,
green,
blue,
brown,
black

 

[jarrod]

white
green
blue
3 browns, but they are unmarked
black

jf

 

[setboy]

White
yellow
Blue
Blue with one stripe on cheap tip
green
green with one stripes on each tip
Purple
Brown
Brown with two stripes on each tip
brown with only one on each tip
black.

 

[sjansen]

white
green
blue
3 browns, but they are unmarked
black

jf

You don't have enough to make money. Throw some stripes and extra belt in there.

 

[seasoned]

You don't have enough to make money. Throw some stripes and extra belt in there.

Exactly, the more tests, the more fees. Just what the doctor ordered.

 

[terryl965]

You don't have enough to make money. Throw some stripes and extra belt in there.

Spoken like a true businessman

 

[Jimi]

Depends on what I am teaching.
Bando, that's a simple belt rank set.
No-Belt
White Belt
Green Belt
Brown Belt
Black Belt = 1st Level Instructor (That's 5 years)
TKD, it's a rainbow, Think Romper Room. LOL. All except Black get up to 3 (Electrical tape, I know) stripes per color to progress = testing fees.
No-Belt
White Belt
Yellow Belt
Green Belt
Blue Belt
Purple Belt
Red Belt
Brown Belt
Brown Senior W/ Black stripe along belt, not across tip
Black Belt 1st Dan

 

[JWLuiza]

10 Gup/7 Dan (and Growing)

No stops except full gup promotions (no stripes or anything except 3rd and 1st Gup)

10. White
9. Orange
8. Yellow
7. Red
6. Green
5. Purple
4. Blue
3. Blue, Brown Stripe
2. Brown
1. Brown, Black Stripe
Black

Most adults Test 10th to 8th gup to 6th to 4th to 2nd to 1st Gup then dan rank.

 

[Makalakumu]

White
Green
Red
Brown
Black

 

[foggymorning162]

10 gup system going by half gup increments belt colors are:

White
Orange
Blue
Purple
Green
Red
Black

Although I would agree that, more belts = more tests which = more money you have to understand that if you teach kids they need incentives and new belts make a great incentive. Our adult and teen students never hit all the ranks and can skip entire belt colors.

 

[Balrog]

White
Orange
Yellow
Camo
Green
Purple
Blue
Brown
Red
Black

 

[Aikicomp]

9th kyu White
8th kyu White w/blue stripe
7th kyu Blue
6th kyu Blue w/green stripe
5th kyu Green
4th kyu Green w/brown stripe
3rd kyu Brown
2nd kyu Brown w/silver stripe
1st kyu Brown w/black stripe

All Dan ranks have the stripes embroidered on the tips of both sides of belt along with their name and Gen Lee Ju-Jitsu in Kanji.

Shodan Black w/1 red stripe
Nidan Black w/2 red stripes
Sandan Black w/3 red stripes
Yondan Black w/4 red stripes

Godan Black on one side w/ 1/2 white and 1/2 red on other (Renshi Belt)

 

[HeisaaReborn]

For the bujutsu training it is done as a hybrid of the "darkening of the belt with experience" and the poon belt at the end:

No belt- 10th kyu
White belt- 9th kyu
Yellow belt- 8th kyu
Green belt- 7th kyu
Purple belt- 6th kyu
Blue belt- 5th kyu
Senior blue (one black stripe across belt)- 4th kyu
Brown- 3rd kyu
Senior brown- 2nd kyu
Red - 1st kyu
Poon - Recommended (Under Traditional Korean)

Black

For Tae Kwon Do which is taught to the kids from 7-12 it is the same except they are called gups which I am now not sure I spelled right looking at it

Budo,

 

[shihansmurf]

I use the following.

White
Yellow
Yellow/1 Tip
Yellow/2 Tips
Green
Green/1 Tip
Green/2 Tips
Brown
Brown/1 Tip
Brown/2 Tips
Shodanho
Shodan

As for the test = money concept. I only charge for Yellow, Green, Brown, and Shodanho. Those tests are $5. That covers the belt. The tips are not charged. The actual Dan gradings happen so rarely that I absorbe the cost of the the nice Tokaido belt out of pocket.

Mark

 

[matt_mcg]

In savate we have colour 'gloves', not belts. The system goes:

blue
green
red
white
yellow
silver

In most national federations, I think white is the level required to teach, but in our federation the minimum standard required is red (although I think commonly that would be as an assistant instructor rather than running your own club). Most of the senior club instructors are white or yellow gloves. Silver is rare.

Grading isn't a particularly big deal, some people practice for years without really bothering with gradings at all, and training is very non-hierarchical. The person running the club will have a high glove ranking, but within the club there's no sense that glove ranking reflects 'seniority'. The fee for grading is small, and is the same for all glove rankings, whether a beginner or more experienced. Gradings also don't happen particularly often, so people don't really seem to focus on them as much as they do on competitions [or at least that's the sense I get from my own club].