Archive for September 12th, 2007


Should kids have a black belt?

Posted by John W. Zimmer
In karate
12Sep 07

Over the years I have seen kids with black belts. I did not award any kids with a belt that high because it would have put them at a disadvantage. When I owned my school a kid could earn up to a brown belt legitimately because they know all of the basics, katas, techniques, and sparring (starting in upper white belt).The belt rankings generally are:

  1. White belt (includes all of the beginning belts such as orange, purple, blue, and green - other schools have different white belt rankings)
  2. Brown belt
  3. Black belt

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