In stead of the normal colored belt ranks. So there are 9 sections. Everytime we test and pass, another section of our belt is dyed black, until we reach dan rank and it is full black. So we use the same belt through out the whole process. Anyone have other interesting ways they do belt ranks?
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That’s a clever way of doing things…
One dojo in our organization dyes the white belts to the correct color following a successful test. It’s the only group in our organization that does so (our school just buys the right color) but the people I’ve met from that school seem to really enjoy the practice. With only 3 colors, it works pretty well.
I don’t mean to pick on David too much, but I do love it when people think that the belt system was "traditionally" based on a dirty belt. We’ve had people who believe that, and practice that, only to be pulled aside during trips to Japan and told they needed to wash their stinky belt. While it makes for an interesting story, it would totally miss the cleanliness of the culture that it originated from – where showing up with a dirty uniform would often mean you weren’t even allowed to train. It was developed by Kano Jigoro in the 1880′s – colored belts by him in the early 1900′s.
My hat is off to your Master. What a nicely symbolic way to remind us of the traditional reason for the belt colors. Slowly, with practice, the belt gets darker until it looks black when we have given it enough effort and time… how nice.
I don’t use belts for rank, but I can say that I like your school’s way, and if I were to open a school which did use belt rankings (I do Kung Fu and we just don’t do that traditionally), I’d love to have permission to do the same thing, or to do something similar. Nice idea.
Sincerely,
Grandmaster David Moore
Co-Founder of Ming Wei Dao
Instructor of Wing Chun Basics
always a student of others, who are often much better than myself
im fully under the impression you do not wash your belt
that is a definitley a great way to move through the black belt ranks, in my dojo we just tape our red belts as we climb the ladder with various colored tapes that all mean a different thing and then we step forward to black belts. eventually(usually after about a two year period) we step away from red belts and into the black belt phase, which is where they give us a new belt with our names and our favorite motivational south korean symbol/saying sewed onto it.
Whether is belts or a new dress, the accessories are the key. In today’s trends, keeping up to the latest is become a challenge, an expense for sure. Looking good cost quite a lot these days.