[loyal2christ]

Originally Posted by JerryLove

The systematic use of belt color to denote rank was first used by Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo, who first devised the colored belt system using obi, and awarded the first black belts to denote a Dan rank in the 1880s. Initially the wide obi was used; as practitioners trained in kimono, only white and black obi were used. It was not until the early 1900s, after the introduction of the judogi, that an expanded colored belt system of awarding rank was created. Other martial arts later adopted the custom or variation on it (e.g. using colored sashes) to denote rank including in arts that traditionally did not have a formalized rank structure. This kind of ranking is less common in arts that do not claim a far eastern origin.

Wow! Seems like you remember the history quite well. I've found a TKD web some time ago, which is quite useful. http://www.barrel.net/belts.php

[loyal2christ]

Originally Posted by Emyv1

Wow that sounds like a pretty cool idea. My type of martial art uses stripes that are the color of the next belt that you get. The belts in order: White, orange, purple, green, then black i am pretty sure. So like if i was orange belt i would get purple stripes everytime i passed something, and so on and so on. Anyone here have that type of belt operations or belt colors?

Ours in TKD is like white, white-yellow, yellow, yellow-green, green, green-blue, blue, blue-red, brown, brown-black, junior black(poom) if under 16, if above 16, it will be black(dan).

[bradguitarbeast]

Originally Posted by loyal2christ

Ours in TKD is like white, white-yellow, yellow, yellow-green, green, green-blue, blue, blue-red, brown, brown-black, junior black(poom) if under 16, if above 16, it will be black(dan).

the ranking system that we use in "karate do goshenbudo"goes somthing like.white, white with 2 black stripes,yellow,orange,green,purple,blue,brown,brown with 2 black stripes,and black which goes all the way to the 7th dan. right now I'm a purple belt.so a little more than half way to black.