Belt Differences in Karate & Taekwondoe?

Question

what are the belt differences? are there any?i've heardkarate has extra belts, but is that true? any contribution is apreciated!!!Thanks!!!

Answer 1

In karate belts are:white,yellow,orange,green,blue,brown and black.

Black belt is the first dan,and there are 10 dan.From sixth dan there is red belt.Bye!

Answer 2

karate is more traditional and has a more strict belt order, and if you start a karate school you normally do what your instructor did

tae kwon do, what im a 1st degree black in, is more lenient, and instructors add more belts and sometimes totally skip belts.

Answer 3

Martial arts has so many styles and so many belt ranks. Most belts go from lighter to darker. The history about the Karate belt is, they would start out with a new white belt and as they trained and progressed there white belt would get darker from dirt, sweat, etc. They would never wash there belt. So the darker someones belt was the more experience they had.

Answer 4

Karate in the Japanese style of martial arts and TKD in the Korean form. There are very similar but there are many small difference.

It would be difficult to go through every difference as there are many styles of Karate. Kind of like there are many Christian churches because everyone has a difference in opinion of what is correct or best practice.

The main thing most people point out TKD generally use more kick especially high flashy kicks. Many Karate style like the ones I practice see no need to kick above the waist. We can kick high, but we don't find it practical often when fighting.

Answer 5

in my martial arts skool i go too the younger kids have more belts too earn than the adults the adults/teens (like me!) go stright from red to yellow to...e.t.c while the younger ppl go from red too red and a stripe too yellow too yellow and a stripe e.t.c it might also depend on  were you train

Answer 6

Normally in Karate there are 10 ranks, called kyu ranks, that you need to pass through until you get to your black belt ranks (called dan ranks).  In my style, white belt is unranked, so after white comes 10th kyu, then 9th, 8th... until you get to 1st, and then black belt.

Taekwondo usually has the same structure of ranks.  One difference I have noticed in Taekwondo schools near where I live is that they tend to have a several tests to advance whereas my school has one big test for you to advance (it takes the same amount of time to advance).

Answer 7

In my class tkd we have blue INSTEAD of purple and red INSTEAD of brown, but no extra belts.

Answer 8

Belts are school specific.  So, one Karate school may have the exact same system as another TKD school and visa versa.  But then again, the two schools may be right next door to each other and one of them has 2x as many belts.

BTW - there is no "e" at the end of Taekwondo.

Answer 9

originally karate had no belts. nor did any other martial art.

this concept was created by jigoro kano, the founder of judo. and the original system had only 4 belts.

it has blown way out of proportion. generally speaking tkd has more belts than most karate systems. infact...some karate instructors in okinawa (the birthplace of karate..not japan)  only have 2 colors!!...you are either a black belt...or you're not!

largely this is to show where you've been. and to give people (kids especially) a sense of achievement. but it really says nothing of how good you are. its a roadmap...you've been here already...you still have to go here, here and here.

this is why you see black belts in some systems getting beat by blue or green belts from other systems. there are so many belts( in some arts), it doesnt seem like you have to actually improve much to get the next belt. but if it took you 6 months or better to get your yellow or green belt, you've had time to actually improve alot and truly earn, and be proud of your belt.

actually taekwondo, before it was called taekwondo...WAS karate. it was called tang soo do (and various other names) before a group got together and decided they should all be called taekwondo. tang soo do is the korean pronunciation of karate do. and it comes directly from shotokan karate do, a japanese style...which came from shorin ryu...the "original" okinwan fixed style. they are all linked and similar.

tkd is unique however in that it includes kicks not seen in japanese or okinawan karate. and they also changed the forms to make it different. but the skills are largely the same as japanese karate.

okinawan karate is a whole nother animal however in that it teaches alot more than either japanese karate (most systems) or taekwondo, tang soo do, soo bahk do...whatever.

actually tang soo do is almost an exact copy of shotokan, with only slight differences in forms (hyung/kata) with the addition of indigenous korean kicking techniques. which makes it unique. they do all the same forms with the same names (albeit translated into korean) heian in japanese, is pinan in okinawa, and pyung an in korean for example.

so you could literally say taekwondo, tang soo do/soo bahk do really are korean karate. because that's exactly what they are...korean interpretations of japanese karate. which is an interpretation of (part of) okinawan karate.

Answer 10

Style, requirements, and how your instructor wants to teach dictates what and how many belts are used in most any form.

Answer 11

This is the ranking system I used in my school:

Jido Kwon (Tae Kwon Do) Karate

white belt

high white belt

yellow belt

high yellow

green

high green

purple

high purple

brown

high brown

black belt (sho dan)

Answer 12

It all depends on the teacher. Tradionaly in Karate you have white , yellow, orange, green, blue, brown and black.  Japanese Judo was the first martial art to introduce the colored belt ranking system as a visible indication of the students’ progress. The colored belt ranking system soon was adapted for Karate, and was first used by Sensei Gichin Funakoshi and his Shotokan Karate.  As students pass through the ranks taking grading examinations they are awarded with different colored belts. The color order and which colors are used varies from school to school, as does the relationship between belt color and rank (= Kyu).

However the Kyu or number/rank always starts at 10 and ends at 1. Black belts ranks then increase normally, from 1st Dan to 10th Dan. In most Karate schools beginners are automatically considered a 10th Kyu (wearing a white belt). Some schools are known to grade beginners for their 10th Kyu, which may have its reason in being able to collect an extra grading fee.

Taekwondo ranks are separated into "junior" and "senior" or "student" and "instructor" sections. The junior section typically consists of ten ranks indicated by the Korean word geup 급 (also Romanized as gup or kup). The junior ranks are usually identified by belts of various colors, depending on the school, so these ranks are sometimes called "color belts". Geup rank may be indicated by stripes on belts rather than by colored belts. Students begin at tenth geup (usually indicated by a white belt) and advance toward first geup (usually indicated by a red belt with a black stripe).  So as you can see it totally depends on the school and the style. Originally there were no colors at all. You started off with a white belt and as the years went by your belt got dirtier and dirtier so after years of hard practice indoors and out your belt was so dirty that it looked black I hope this helps