Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / QGSI 2.0; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!oliveb!ios!qubix!jdb From: jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Belt colors in SHOTOKAN KARATE Message-ID: <1423@qubix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 23:49:39 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1423 Posted: Thu Oct 11 23:49:39 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 04:54:37 EDT References: <500@sjuvax.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, San Jose, CA Lines: 16 > If anyone could tell me what red, blue, and yellow represent, I'd greatly > appreciate it. Thanx. I don't what the Tae Kwan Do folk mean by red yellow etc, but the origin of the traditional Japanese White/Brown/Black system is historical and interesting. Before the regular system of ranks, a karateka simply never washed his belt after he began training. A brown belt reflected an intermediate time in training, and black showed long enough for (presumed) mastry of the art. There are even those who see a full circle in the phenomenon of a really well worn belt turning white again from wearing right through the outer layers of material. -- Dr Memory ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!jdb