My school is as follows white yellow orange purple blue - My Rank blue(with brown stripe) green green(with brown stripe) brown-1rst degree brown-2nd degree brown-3rd degree black-1rst degree black-2nd degree ect. ect.
The Southern Shotokan Karate Association uses this: white orange red yellow green <--- Here in 2 weeks! purple purple/white brown brown/white white/brown/white black
****o ryo JKO Black Belt Sho Dan Ho - student black belt 3rd, 2nd, 1st Kyu Brown Belt 6th, 5th, 4th Kyu Green Belt 7th Purple Belt (second) 8th Kyu Purple Belt (first) 9th Kyu Blue Belt 10th Kyu Orange Belt White belt - beginner
My new school's belt system is: white orange yellow blue green low purple high purple 3rd brown 2nd brown 1st brown black
My School is like this from highest to lowest: 10th Degree Black belt (only one in the US and one in Okinawa) 9th Degree so on and so forth you get the picture Brown 3rd degree Brown 2nd degree Brown 1st degree Purple Blue Green Orange Yellow White It usually takes about 4 years to get to 1st dan in my school. I don't really like that fact totally because a lot of the newer belts have gone to the commercialized training and they don't know anything about self defense.
white yellow orange purple blue blue w/green stripe green green w/brown stripe brown 1st brown 2nd brown 3rd black 1st black 2nd black 3rd black 4th After 4th you must take special training.
white, yellow, orange, green, purple, 2nd purple, brown, 2nd brown, 3rd brown, 1st dan, 2nd dan and so on.
i do shotokan karate the belts go like this White Red Yellow Orange Green Blue Purlpe Brown Brown white Brown Double White <---- i am here Black 1st Dan and so on til 10th Dan
Quite a few associations have them. In fact, my last two had red belts. I believe some American associations have them after black (smells a bit like BS to me, but some clubs seem to state it) I've always found the blue belt to be the alien belt...
My Kyokushin school goes white, yellow, blue, green, purple, brown, brown, brown, black. It's a very small class, most of the time it's just me training with two sandans and a nidan, so even though I've been a mere yellow belt for over a year now (mostly because we need to travel to Maryland to test) I've been getting a lot of great training.
I was a yellow (which is 7th kyu in my school) for about a year when I restarted karate, also because I kept missing gradings due to having to travel and not being around. But, like you, my class is small and we have great black belts so no harm done.
Yeah, definitely no complaints here. Two of my instructors got their black belts under Shihan John Farrell, who was a personal student of Mas Oyama and trained in Japan with him for quite a while. My other instructor received his black belt from Shihan Bobby Lowe, who was Mas Oyama's first uchi-deshi. To say that the instruction is awesome is an understatement.
American Karate White Orange Purple Blue Blue advanced (blue with a green stripe) Green Green advanced(green with brown stripe) Brown Brown advanced Black (1st Dan)
white belt white belt(yellow strip) orange belt blue belt blue belt (green strip) green belt brown belt brown belt (black strip) red belt (with black strip) and then come the black belt ranks from 1st to 10th.
10 Kyu - White Belt 9 Kyu - White Belt with Black Stripe 8 Kyu - White belt with two black Stripe 7 Kyu - Yello Belt 6 Kyu - Yellow Belt with Black Stripe 5 Kyu - Green Belt 4 Kyu - Green Belt with Black Stripe 3 Kyu - Green Belt with 2 Black Stripe 2 Kyu - Brown Belt 1 Kyu - Brown Belt with Black Stripe 1 Dan - Black Belt
no belt/rank (white) 10th kyu- orange 9th kyu- blue 8th kyu- blue (no strips or anything, same belt) 7th kyu- purple 6th kyu- purple 5th kyu- green 4th kyu- green 3th kyu- brown 2nd kyu- brown 1st kyu- brown 1st Dan- black Takes 4 or 5 years to reach first dan depending on the individual.
