Karate Belt Ranking System
At the beginning there ware only
3 different belt colours in karate.
Most Karate organisations now use
9 or even more different belt colours.
However, some karate associations
like "Shotokan of America" still stick to the
original system.
(See Explaination & Examples).
In some you even heave to earn a white belt.
Explaination and Examples: Karate Belt Ranking System
Original Belt RankingSystem
- White Belt - up to 4th kyu
- Brown Belt - up to 1st kyu
- Black Belt - 1 Dan and higher
Other common Belt Ranking systems
- Red or ungraded White Belt
- White Belt - 8kyu
- Yellow Belt - 7th kyu
- Orange Belts - 6th kyu
- Green Belt - 5th kyu
- Blue Belt - 4th kyu
- Purple Belt - 3rd kyu
- Brown Belt - 2nd kyu
- Black Belts - 1 to 8th or 1st to 10 Dan
- Red Belts - 9the and 10 Dan (in some organisations and only If red doesn´t mean ungraded)
