How many of you are black belts?

How many of you are black belts?

  • Advanced or black belt rank

    Votes: 238 69.0%
  • Intermediate rank

    Votes: 55 15.9%
  • beginner rank

    Votes: 31 9.0%
  • my style does not have rank system

    Votes: 30 8.7%
  • not involved with martial arts

    Votes: 4 1.2%

  • Total voters
    345
  • Poll closed .
Ha, I'm a Burnt Umber Belt in Icky Thump, the ancient Art of using Bread Pudding as a weapon! Goodies, Goody goody yum yum

Remember my tongue is firmly in my cheek at all times and this post has no semblance of reality to it.

I wanted to study Tennessee Ernie Ford's 16 Ton method too but it didn't work out eh

Skennen Peace
 
Well, I'm not a black belt yet. I am about to test for my brown belt sometime soon. My instructor has to talk to the head hancho guy (the one that oversees the testing) to see what date works. I'll find out this Wed.!
 
Kwiter said:
Ha, I'm a Burnt Umber Belt in Icky Thump, the ancient Art of using Bread Pudding as a weapon! Goodies, Goody goody yum yum

Remember my tongue is firmly in my cheek at all times and this post has no semblance of reality to it.

I wanted to study Tennessee Ernie Ford's 16 Ton method too but it didn't work out eh

Skennen Peace

You really should consider joining something! You'll have a blast, I promise!
 
I'm a sixth dan under Ernie Reyes, Sr. and have black belt or instructor rankings in TKD, Hapkido, JJ, Escrima, Kenpo, and Muay Thai. It keeps me busy.
 
I bought a black leather belt from Wal-Mart once, does that count? :)

I am in CMA, no belt ranks but I was an advanced student of my Yang Style Sifu and an assistant teacher to my Sifu before that. However I do not know if that means I am the equivalent of a Black belt or not,
 
I have a godan in Shotokan, a 1st in EPAK, and Instructor certification in another Art that doesn't use rank.

I also have a few color belts in various systems. Yellow in TKD, Blue in Goju Ryo(5th Kyu), Orange in IKCA Kenpo. I also boxed but the only belts there were shiney and gold :)

I am currently preparing for an assessment in Han Foo Wa, Bill Shaw's freestyle martial arts.

Mark

P.S. I just noticed the thread necro. Its interesting the demographics here. I assume that people interested in martialarts to spend free time on chatting on a ma forum are into it enough that most would be advanced/black belt level. I find the 3% that don't do MA interesting. The study must be popular.
 
Considering when this thread was started, someone who took their first class the day it was started might well have earned their BB by now...
 
Considering when this thread was started, someone who took their first class the day it was started might well have earned their BB by now...

Good point. Sorta skews the poll a bit. Maybe we should do a new one asking how many have earned their BB since joining martial talk. Aside, of course, from the cool ones for post count. :)

Mark
 
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