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meh
In karate it is not. You must defend the white one too, but i have seen only little children to do that
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In karate it almost always is.
In our club (a WTKF club) i’ve just got my brown and white belt.
white,red,orange,yellow,green,purple,purple and white,brown,dark brown,brown and white,black.
In karate it almost always is, but not always.
In our club (a WTF club) i’ve just got my rainbow belt.
white,red,orange, orange and green, green and orange, rainbow, yellow,green, back to red again, purple, purple, more purple, purple and and white, red AGAIN, brown, dark brown, really really seriously dark brown, purple but really more violet if you know what i mean, brown and white, black, transparent(ninja).
Marry me
This just made my evening. Thanks DZ, and please let me know if your club is accepting new members.
I love it!!
haha
White belt is the belt that comes with the uniform. I’m a white belt too. WOO HOO.
It comes with one because there is nothing else to keep your Gi together
How ever white belt is 9 qu, but as i sad only kids have this exam, the older karateka skip 9 and go directly to 8 witch is yellow in most karate federations 
*kyu not qu
sorry, that irritated me enough to feel the need to fix
point taken
Anyone that hasn’t taken any karate classes is automatically a white belt, lol. I got to Green belt and was due for the next test, but they never tested me. Probably because my mom had to pay a fee for it and never did. Oh well.
Yeah, class fees can get ya. I’m a brown belt, but the black belt test is 5 days and you have to pay for each one separately. *gaak*
Same here. Really sad you can’t keep doing what you like for lack of money
After you get a black belt you’re supposed to be good enough to either force the instructor to give your money back or at least pick his pocket like a ninja.
^^ haha!
I’ll keep that in mind!
Ranfom info is random
Bad typo is bad.
Not at our school. You have to earn your white belt. And it’s not terribly easy, either, at least for a beginner. We have 5 things to do before you earn your white belt.
Nice. Can’t imagine the reaction when she gets her yellow belt.
I got to Brown belt then I quit because the black belt grading was a bunch of teenagers kicking the s**t out of you. I was 11.
Eesh. Yeah, I quit karate when I got to purple belt (not as exciting, I know, but I’m a green belt now) because I got beat up by a black belt. I was probably eleven, the black belt was most likely in his early twenties.
This is why i kinda don’t agree with most karate schools. :/
I did jiu-jitsu for 13 years and in any dojo recognized by the organization ours is a part of, a person can’t get their black belt until they’re at least 16 and have attended adult classes for a certain amount of time. Some dojos I know of give out “junior” black belts, but those kids still have to be tested for their actual black belt when their sensei feels they’re ready.
My black belt test was hard though. I wish it was as easy as fighting other people. I basically had to demonstrate everything I knew, plus do a written component. Only reason I stopped going though is I go to university about 20hrs away.
Oh right, and some Aikido clubs have 2 or 3 white belt levels. The first white belt is just what comes with the gi. And reading some other comments, sounds like some karate dojos do that too. So I agree it’s very possible that this person could be from a place like that.
Whatever martial art it may be, good for them though.
(and I don’t disagree with the martial art of karate, but how some dojos push kids through so fast just for money. A fair number of them in my area do that, though I know not all dojos are like that)
I’m the same, part of the BJJAGB. We have the junior Black Belts at my school.
Yeah we now start with no belt then a person is awarded their RED belt, they then have to grade for all the following belts including WHITE
In mine you have to be at least 18. And spar the instructor. *shudder*
Well, for example in JKA you have to pass first test (after about a year of training) to get a white belt.
haha priceless
Belts need to the heck..
I agree with rafnem, that belts need to the heck …
and inb4 that’s so raven
Well, I come from a martial arts school that believes in building a strong foundation, and so they make you learn core basics in order to earn a white belt. It’s considered a test to see if a student is willing to commit to the training. Maybe this person comes from a similar school.
I think he was just proud to finally join, but what do I know?
I think so too
Exactly. I don’t think this is even a fail.
I was thinking the same thing.
regarding when one receives his/her white belt depends on the art-form and the school. At our taekwondo dojang, one begins as a “no belt.” The white belt is earned after about 10 classes (basically, after one learns the “rules” of the school and shows proper respect for teachers and other students…) So, no, a white belt is not always given with the dobuk (uniform).
I’ve taken a Karate Kyokushinkai classes – and no, white belt isn’t a default belt. You have it with your uniform, but you’re not entitled to it. To get it, you need to pass the first exam. So there’s no fail here.
I’ve taken Kyokushinkai classes too (recently acquired 4. kyu) – and for me, white WAS the default belt. The very first exam I took was from white belt to orange.
At my old dojo you had to actually earn a white belt. The first few classes you just wore your gi. Granted, being a white belt is not much of an achievement anyway but I guess the reasoning is that a white belt knows SOMETHING the average person doesn’t.
I thought karate starts off as a no belt, then advances to white belt. Or am I thinking of another martial art?
no, it’s white belt first. otherwise you wouldn’t have a belt to keep your trousers up
Our gi (gis? Not sure how to pluralize it) were held together with two ties on the inside, and the pants had a drawstring, so it all held together fine without a belt. We had to earn our white belts. Basics, strikes and blocks, seize/secure self defense, a kata, the works.
Well, there is one other possibility that would be pretty badass: As you have passed the tests for the fifth black belt, you are entitled to wear a white belt AGAIN, to show that even a master can still learn something everyday and by default is still a student. And that would be, as I said, pretty good.
*pink belt
Maybe you start with no belt at that school.
Then once you can do proper form, you get a white belt?
This is Taekwondo not karate (seeing the korean flag) You can think of it as. Not everybody is a “white belt”. You can think of it as getting yourself to start is the first step anyways and probably just as hard as any other step. Sure anybody CAN do it just like anybody CAN get a black belt. but not everyone does.
Not necessarily Tae Kwan Do, could be it’s sister art Tang Soo Do.
I know in tkd you start out with no belt and then test for white
Actually, when I took martial arts everyone started as a no belt. After 5 classes you had to earn your white belt by reciting the student creed and doing a couple of kicks and punches. I’m curious to know where the location of this picture is because it does look a bit like the studio I practiced at.
I believe that’s a South Korean flag in the back there, so it’s not karate, its tae-kwon-do, where you usually start off with no belt.
When my son started karate, new students had to ‘qualify’ for their white belt too. It’s not just that “anyone who hasn’t studied karate” has their white belt. We have NO belt. Someone who HAS STARTED studying karate has their white belt. Even if they haven’t learned much yet, they’ve started, they’ve learned something.
In my son’s case, it wasn’t anything huge — the school’s oath and, if I recall correctly, the “star block set”. It was pretty much automatic that all the kids would get it after their trial couple of weeks, but they do get a great feeling of accomplishment.
Some schools are probably different — some probably do hand out a white belt with the uniform, no questions asked. Others, you DO have to earn it, so not a Fail.
And given the S. Korean flag in the background, this is probably Tae Kwon Do, not karate or judo or jiu jitsu. Dunno how their belt rules work either…
people who don’t use question marks should be shot in the knees.
You could be shot in the head too, because there is no initial Upper case in your sentence. Ridiculous.
Karate schools are such a scam. Years ago, white belt was the default belt. Then some con artist decided he could scam an extra “test” fee and up to a year of class fees by making you work for it.
“Panda, there is no level Zero in Kung-fu.”
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*Crash, Bang, Zwiiip, Whoosh, Spin, Clatter, Burn, Gnaw, Symbol*
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“There is now a level Zero.”
So, White Supremacists are just beginners? Who knew…
Just WTF…(see what I did there?)
I see it! I see it!
I took TKD and Isshinryu Karate and never had to pay extra for testing for either. Just the normal monthly charge. I believe in TKD I had to earn the white belt and karate I did not. I thought it was a TKD picture based on the flag as well, but it could be another Korean martial art. It’s not a fail to be proud of your accomplishments no matter how trivial it may be to someone else. Afterall, she could be sitting on her a$$ playing video games. At least she’s out there actually doing something.
taekwondo, looks like from the korean flag. why the hell is everyone talking about karate”?
There are loads of different systems- in mine, white belt was the equivalent of grade one, and we had to do an exam for it.
You start with no belt…
you start off with nothing idiots… you EARN your white belt!
Failblog fail. Why does everybody assume it is Karate? If you look at the background of the picture, you will see a South korean flag. Karate is Japanese. I used to practice Kung Fu Shaolin (China) , and white was default, but that doesn’t mean every martial art is the same. Even as a kid i knew that. It could be Hapkido, or Judoka, or maybe even Sambo. I believe it is Hapkido, and you need to take a pretty rigorous test to obtain your white belt.
On a side note, people that correct typos have nothing to do in life.
Also, what is with these retarded Avatars now?
Or it could be Taekwondo, another South Korean martial art, in which the default belt still is the white belt.
Judoka is the term for a practitioner of Judo, which is Japanese.
Isn’t Sambo Russian?
There is no objective standard for belt progression other than that white is the lowest ranked belt, and black is the highest. The color progression of the belts varies from martial art to martial art. Likewise, white belts are not always handed out by default. Some martial arts start you off with no belt of any kind, and after a week or so when you’ve proven that you’re not just some complete imbecile, you are granted the white belt.
No-belt basically is a probationary period, to see if you mingle well with the rest of the class, or if you have at least the bare minimum qualities needed to be a student. Getting the white belt basically means you’re accepted as a student, and your lessons begin in earnest.
White Belt: Likely not to bloody own nose in confrontation.
I guess it depends on the style and school. My TKD dojang you get white belt with your uniform – but you don’t get your uniform until you’ve been there for at least a weeks worth of classes.
It looks like the Korean Flag in the background, but its hard to make out.
This person could also just be happy they finally joined a martial art. I remember I was really thrilled.
“all glory comes from daring to begin.”
The white belt is not the “default” belt in ANY system. The white belt is a symbol of having the courage to begin on that long journey to black belt, and eventually mastery. Every person in the martial arts, whether they be a blue belt, a black belt, or even the head of a system, started with a white belt. In many ways the white belt is the most important belt in the system.
It’s pretty sad that I had to scroll down through what seemed like endless comments before somebody noticed that the flag in the dojo was indeed the Korean flag, and thus the martial art is NOT karate. As someone who’s practiced TKD for 10+ years, it always annoys me when people automatically assume that all martial arts photos/movies/demonstrations are karate.
Stepping off soapbox now.
As far as the belt situation goes- in my school, you are handed a uniform with a white belt for your very first class, so that you are not singled out, but immediately accepted as a martial artist. All the other belts are earned.
This depends on so many things. Say in the martial arts I take, you obviously get a white belt with the suit. But you aren’t officially a white belt untill you pass your first graduation (which is more of a formality than a test really, but still). And the next 2 “grades” you are still a white belt. So 6 kyu to 4 kyu = white. And from 3rd kyu onwards you get to wear the hakama and a brown belt.