The boy reliably informs me that ninjutsu (in contrast) has only 4 belt colours - white, green, brown, black. The reasoning is rather cute: ninjutsu training is traditionally outdoors, and the different coloured belts are all the same belt (which, unlike the uniform, you don't wash). You begin with a white belt, which is stained green by the grass as you learn (and are thrown/hit the ground, presumably). As you progress, the green grass stains are replaced by brown staining, and finally the belt becomes blackened over the years - so belt progressions make sense, colour-wise. It is, however, a very wide difference in skill level between all four belts, hence the other colours for intermediate belts in other martial arts forms.
White - Orange* - Blue - Yellow - Green (+ senior) - Brown (+ senior) - Black
*Orange used to be red, but because in some styles it's the colour under black, it was changed to orange out of respect. Or so I was told once.
Also there used to be senior belts for all the colours, but nowadays it's only after green that you need to seperately test for the senior belt of that colour. You get seniors in the lower belts if you do exceptionally well in the grading I believe, though it's rarely given out.
You could get your black belt in about 2 years, though that would mean you have to test every promotion test, which is once every 3 months. If I'm not mistaken, there's a 6 month wait between brown and brown senior, and then a 1 year wait between brown senior and black. But other than that, you could progress through at least the first 4 colours in a year or so.
Still, it's very much impressed upon students that black belts are not an ending, but a beginning, and that with that black belt comes a responsibility. Many of the black belts at our dojo also teach classes. Some come from other countries to teach, a kind of exchange program with other Kyokushinkaikan dojos. We have a Brazilian and a Polish senpai currently here on exchange.
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The boy reliably informs me that ninjutsu (in contrast) has only 4 belt colours - white, green, brown, black. The reasoning is rather cute: ninjutsu training is traditionally outdoors, and the different coloured belts are all the same belt (which, unlike the uniform, you don't wash). You begin with a white belt, which is stained green by the grass as you learn (and are thrown/hit the ground, presumably). As you progress, the green grass stains are replaced by brown staining, and finally the belt becomes blackened over the years - so belt progressions make sense, colour-wise. It is, however, a very wide difference in skill level between all four belts, hence the other colours for intermediate belts in other martial arts forms.
Just a bit of trivia. *grin*
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White - Orange* - Blue - Yellow - Green (+ senior) - Brown (+ senior) - Black
*Orange used to be red, but because in some styles it's the colour under black, it was changed to orange out of respect. Or so I was told once.
Also there used to be senior belts for all the colours, but nowadays it's only after green that you need to seperately test for the senior belt of that colour. You get seniors in the lower belts if you do exceptionally well in the grading I believe, though it's rarely given out.
You could get your black belt in about 2 years, though that would mean you have to test every promotion test, which is once every 3 months. If I'm not mistaken, there's a 6 month wait between brown and brown senior, and then a 1 year wait between brown senior and black. But other than that, you could progress through at least the first 4 colours in a year or so.
Still, it's very much impressed upon students that black belts are not an ending, but a beginning, and that with that black belt comes a responsibility. Many of the black belts at our dojo also teach classes. Some come from other countries to teach, a kind of exchange program with other Kyokushinkaikan dojos. We have a Brazilian and a Polish senpai currently here on exchange.
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