The Karate Belt Rainbow: What Do The Different Colors Really Mean?
You have probably already realized that martial artists use different colored belts to designate rank. Has it always been this way? Is there a specific order to the belt colors? What about all of these stripes that you keep seeing? What do the different colors really mean? Stand by for the answers to all your questions about colored belts.
Different colored belts used to designate rank are a relatively modern innovation created by Master Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo back in the early 1900s. Master Kano felt that there should be a visual progression of the belts as a way to tell what level a practitioner was and also as a way to implement a specific hierarchy within each Judo club.
Before the invention of the colored belts there was simply a white belt and a black belt and nothing in between. It was not uncommon for a masters disciple to study for years while wearing a white belt until one day out of the blue, the master awarded the student a black belt and that was that. The common myth of starting out with a white belt that gradually gets dirtier the longer you train and finally becomes...
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