What are the belt ranking levels in karate and what are their colors?

Question

What are the belt ranking levels in karate and what are their colors?

Answer 1

Every style of karate has a differant belt ranking system. Whatever style you are interested in probably has a website with resources on it such as belt ranks. Even still, most japaniese styles use the same name Kyu, which basicly means level. Some styles have 6 levels of kyu, some have 10. They are counted backwards, up the the point before black. Example, 1rst kyu is the belt rank before black belt.

I myself am in Chito-Ryu karate and these are the belt ranks.

White

Yellow

Orange

Green

Blue

Brown

Black.

As well, most styles also have levels of black belts called Dans. These are measured in degrees. The chito-ryu system has 10 degrees in black belts.

Answer 2

Hi Kimberly,

There are some good answers here, and you can find more if you do a simple search in old answers and in things like Wikipedia, etc.

That 5-10 minutes of searching will give you more information than posting...

Answer 3

if you click this pdf file it shows what the belts are and it shows what you need to be able to do to acheive that belt remember that there is more than on type of karate. But this shows what skills you need to acheive that belt. Copy

and paste this in your browser

http://www.sandovalkarate.net/Curriculum...

Answer 4

There are about a million different types of karate. Every one of them has different belt colors, belt names, belt levels and requirements to get them. Probably the only consistent thing is that the white belt is the lowest rank. Most types also have different levels of black belt (like first degree black belt, second degree, etc).

Answer 5

different styles have different colors and meanings for their belts. The style I learned was Okinawan, and the order/color was white,yellow,blue,green,brown,black. With two divisions in the lower belts and three in brown and 5 in black, each division denoted by a black stripe,or a red stripe on the black belt divisions.

Answer 6

In my martial arts dojo its

White

Gold

Green

Purple

Blue

Blue Adv.

Red

Red Adv.

Brown

Brown Adv.

Black 1st-10th degrees

*Im a Asst. Instructor 2nd Degree Black Belt*