What are the karate belt colors in order?

I have a black belt 1st degree in Tae Kwon Do (korean karate).

Colors vary by schools, but here's how they are in my school.

Belt colors and ranking in order:

White

Yellow (some schools use a White 1st degree instead)

Orange (some use a White 2nd degree)

Green

Blue

Purple (some schools use a blue and red mix instead)

Red

Brown

Brown 1st degree

Black 1st degree (1 yr before allowed to test for 2nd deg.)

Black 2nd degree (Can run a school recognized by ITF)

Black 3rd degree

Black 4th degree

Black 5th degree

Black 6th degree (minimum 20 yrs of training)

Black 7th degree

Black 8th degree (It took my instructor 37 yrs to earn this)

Black 9th degree

Black 10th degree, Grand Master (Chuck Norris is this rank. One must practice martial arts for more than 40 years to be awarded the title)

Starting with purple, students must accumulate at least 24 class hours in rank before they can promote again.

I had asked my instructor why some schools are different in the lower belt colors. My instructor said that he uses all available colors so he can tell what level students are from afar.

Karate suits= My school wears white suits in spring and summer, and black in fall and winter. Saturday classes and tournaments allow either suit or mixing, such as wearing the white top with the black pants, or vice versa.

"macdaddy", the word karate is a generic term. NOBODY"S black belt is really in karate. It is usually in Kenpo, Tang Soo Do, or various other styles.

My instructor's master was the guy who brought TKD to Vietnam after WWII. TKD by itself is not good for up close. 5 akido moves are incorporated with each belt level at my school.

Karate Belt Colors

It depends which style of karate you do along with the personal choice of the teacher. Some change the order to their own way. Some places have colours that others don't and some places even do half grades. A half grade would for example go ... white, white with red stripe, red, white with yellow stripe, yellow. Instead of just full colours. This means more lessons and more money paid out. Remember above all that regardless of the belt order, their is no point having a belt if you don't know what you should at that stage. I've met many black belts that don't know what someone at that level should, they might as well have bought the belt on ebay.

I have a 1st Dan black belt in Shotokan from Shotokan Karate International, awarded to me by Hirokazu Karnatak, a 9th Dan at the time.

Black belt levels are, as you can see, called Dan levels.

Before black belt comes the kyu levels. This is pronounced like the letter kyu. These go from 10th kyu to 1st kyu with a beginner being 10th kyu and last before black belt being 1st kyu.

I trained with the Irish Karate Union. The belt colour progression went from white belt for a 10th kyu to a white belt with yellow tips for a 9th kyu. Next came a full yellow belt, a green belt, a first purple belt, a second purple belt, a first, second and third brown belt.

Gradings were awarded after exams by the national chief instructor. You could go for gradings every three months.

The examiner could award double or even triple gradings on the day.

Six months was the minimum wait between 1st kyu and 1st Dan grading.

One person I know of got three triple grades and went from 10kyu to 1st Dan in 1 year.

White

Yellow

Orange

Green

Blue

Purple

Brown

Red

Black

I am a student yellow belt so far in Karate of the Shaolin Kempo form, and our belt colors go from, white, yellow, orange, purple, blue, blue with green stripe, green, green with brown stripe, brown, red, black, then there are 10 degrees of black belt.

Weapon training begins at late yellow belt using the Nunchuks.

It depends on who you study with, my school does them in this order (I won't include all the degrees of the black belt as there are 10 of them)

White belt

Yellow Belt

Orange belt

Blue belt

Purple belt

Green belt

Green and brown mix (otherwise known as the mint chocolate belt)

Brown

Brown 1st degree

Brown 2nd degree

Black...all ten black ranks.

This is how the karate studio I go to has them in order:

White, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Green, Purple, Brown, Red, Black.

Here's the order of karate belts in display: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_11?url=se...

As you can see, it depends on which dojo you're at. There are some places that has 10 different color levels while others have 9 different color levels. While giving black belt the most level of degrees.

white, yellow, orange, purple, blue, green, brown, black and there are 10 degrees of black belt.

each is representative of a certain level of skill. There are actually a few theories behind the colors one being that they symbolize the original white belt getting dirtier as it is used and the dirt equating to use and experience.

In my system of Isshin-ryu we go white yellow orange green brown black. Some systems ad a lot more. one school I know even has a camouflage belt.

No belt has a hard fast meaning. with so many schools having different criteria they mostly approximate at best.