How many Karate belts are there?

Question

How many Karate belts are there?

Answer 1

it depends on which type of karate you take american karate is what i take and the belts are....

white

yellow

orange

green

purple

blue

red

advance red

brown

advance brown

black

2nd degree black

3rd

4th

and so on

Answer 2

yea it depends on which type of karate u do

i have been doing this for 4/5years i am going in for my 2nd degee black belt.i do kiaido ryu martial arts our belts are =

white belt(lowest/begginers belt)

yellow

orange

blue

purple

greeen

brown

brown belt black tip

black belt (1st degree)

''              (2nd )

''            (3rd)

''             (4th)

etc etc until 10th degee black belt

Answer 3

26.

Answer 4

i think at most seven, but there are many different stlyes of karate so i'm not exactly sure.

Answer 5

I think it depends on which type of karate as well as each individual school. I take American Kenpo, here's our belt system we use at my school.

White

Yellow

Orange

Purple

Blue

Green

Gray

Tan

Brown

Red

2nd Brown

2nd Red

Black

Answer 6

The first poster gave a pretty good answer. There are small differences among different styles and different associations or even among clubs, but overall that is a pretty good set of lists.

For the one poster that gave the answer about in ancient Japan and only one belt...sorry to burst the folksy bubble, but uniforms and belts were introduced to karate at the beginning of the 1900s. Not so ancient. And there is no proof of the dirty belt theory... (seriously, orange? green? purple? huh? does that really make sense?). I used to believe those old wives tales too when I was a teenager so I don't mean any disrespect. But, in this day and age those tales should be cleared away.

Answer 7

inancient japan where karate made long long time ago there was only ONe BELT.  white.  which after years and years of time waering and practicing in it turned black, thus earning yo  black belt denoting expertise and mastery....

Answer 8

There are many different "styles" or "schools" of karate, and each can have its own belt system. In some of them it cannot even be said that white is the lowest and black is the highest.

I took Keichu Ryu karate, and it went:

White

Yellow

Green

Purple

Brown

Black

Red/white

My friend is in Isshin Ryu. They don't have the purple or the red/white. But each belt has divisions, marked by one or two stripes on the end of the belt in the color of the next belt. For example, a white belt in the second stage of progress toward a yellow belt would get one yellow stripe around the end of his white belt. But I don't know if that is an official part of the Ishin Ryu belt system, or just something the sensei of that dojo does so the kids feel like they are making SOME kind of progress.

The traditional Okinawan pattern is:

White

Yellow

Green

Brown

Black

Red/White Stripe (I studied Isshinryu for a couple years and they did have this marking in our dojo.)

Red

Typically there is a half way point between each of the colors. My style of Shidokan Shorin Ryu uses a color on the last three to six inches of the belt to seperate these steps.

White - 8th Kyu

Yellow Tip - 7th Kyu

Yellow - 6th Kyu

Green Tip - 5th Kyu

Green - 4th Kyu

Brown Tip - 3rd Kyu

Brown - 2nd Kyu

Black Tip - 1st Kyu

Black - 1st Dan through 6th Dan

Red/White - 7th/8th Dan

Red - 9th/10th Dan

So it is really more important to understand what Kyu (Japanese/Okinawan) or Gup (Korean) a student is to understand where they are in the progression.

I understand that there are branches of ninjitsu that actually have 15 Dan (blackbelt) ranks.

I took Kyokushin Karate and this is there belt order:

Black belt- 1st Dan(highest)

Brown seniour- 1 Kyu

Brown belt- 2rd Kyu

Green seniour- 3th Kyu

Green belt- 4th Kyu

Yellow seniour- 5th Kyu

Yellow belt- 6th Kyu

Blue seniour- 7th Kyu

Blue belt- 8th Kyu

Red seniour- 9th Kyu

Red belt- 10 Kyu

White belt- Beginner

Karate belts

Can vary between the different types of karate( Shito Ryu, Wado Ryu, Goju Ryu, & Shotokan) The type of Karate that I am doing is Wado Ryu. The belts are:

-White belt (ungraded)(10th Kyu)(9th Kyu)

-Red belt (8th Kyu)

-Purple belt (7th Kyu)

-Green belt (6th Kyu)(5th Kyu)

- Brown belt (4th Kyu)(3rd Kyu)(2nd Kyu)

-Black belt (1st Kyu)

For Wado-Ryu The Colors Are...

    * White

    * Blue

    * Green

    * Purple

    * Brown

    * Black

Each belt has 5 kyus.

Black has 10 levels.