Belt & Style

[Crystal Gryphon]

A long time ago (no doubt in a galixy far far away...) Wasabi2u started this thread. As it has now hit one hundred posts, we can continue the topic under a new thread.

Post here to list your belt and style. If your system has no belt ranking or if you teach yourself, you can also post here and detail your studies.

BELT or RANK:


SYSTEM:


DOJO/SELF-TAUGHT:

[glamiss]

don't forget to sticky-fy it cg

[Crystal Gryphon]

Originally posted by glamiss
don't forget to sticky-fy it cg

Grabs a roll of duct tape

There! That should work. If not...

Eyes the tube of super glue.

[Ryoma]

Allow me to christen this thread.

Belt: Yellow/ Black (Testing for orange Nov. 8)

Style: Choong-Sil Tae Kwon Do

Dojo: Brandon Tae Kwon Do, Tampa, Florida

[Action Slack]

Style: Seido

Belt: Green

System: White, Blue, Yellow, Green, Brown. All the belts have an Advanced level, indicated by a patch on the belt. Before you get black you go back to white. Then you get a preliminary black for 6 months, so you dont just get a black and leave.

[Wraith]

Its been a really long time since I studied a martial art, but when I did...

Style: Tang Soo Do (A Korean martial art, similar to Tae Kwon Do)

Belt: Brown belt, one white stripe. The order for rank (if I remember correctly) is white, white w/ black stripe, orange, orange w/ white stripe, green, green w/ white stripe, brown, brown w/ white stripe, red, red w/ white stripe, blue, black. It varies from dojo to dojo.

Dojo: Tang Soo Do Karate Academy. Philadelphia, PA.

[Bakudai]

I Use a mixture of Brasilian Jiu Jitsu, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Capoeira (Although many don't consider it a martial art), and TKD.

I am taught through Family and friends, so I don't have an official rank, although I have been at it for around 11 years now. I go to brasil sometimes to study with family, often times I just practice at the local Gym.

[itwentinandout]

belt:brown black tip (2 from black)

Style:tae kwon do

Do jong:Yk kim's(yes the founder of the american tae kwon do association) in eustis fl

[The Great Magus]

Style : Shorin-Ryu Karate Do (Japanese style with Okinawan origins)

Belt : Blue

System : Must test for three stripes for each belt before testing for the next belt. The order of the belts is : White, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple, Red, Brown w/ red tips, Brown, Brown w/ black tips, and then the black belts. (There are lots of these. It doesn't end in this style when you get to black belt)

[Wasabi2u]

Originally posted by Crystal Gryphon
A long time ago (no doubt in a galixy far far away...) Wasabi2u started this thread. As it has now hit one hundred posts, we can continue the topic under a new thread.

Post here to list your belt and style. If your system has no belt ranking or if you teach yourself, you can also post here and detail your studies.

BELT or RANK:


SYSTEM:


DOJO/SELF-TAUGHT:

Oo wow, i didn't think we'd ever get there Gryph! Love to see progress happening in some old forums like these! Peace and continued good luck.

Recently i had to quit my style after attaining the rank of Second Degree Black Belt by the way. I didn't really wanna stop, but that's cool anyways.

If brazillian jiu jitsu wasn't so damn expensive i'd love to take that up, but so far i'm looking at some aikido.


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It was great though, towards the end of my training, a chinese martial arts acrobat started using our gym to train in. I learned quite a lot, mostly unuseful in real life things, but useful for the world of martial arts. The most helpful thing he ever told me was when you're sparing, "Think of it like you're playing tag. Him with the better speed surely is going to win".

I also learned how to do a barrel kick, other wise known as a misty flip; a butterfly twist; back tuck or whatever you call it; and some other things...

[smashbro14]

1)2nd degree black

2)Taijitsu and Kendo

3)I dont know

[Duragon]

Belt: 2nd degree black
Style: ****o Ryu
System: White, Yellow, Green, Blue, Red, and Black.

Belt: Red
Style: Tae Kwon Do/Judo (they do both)
System: White, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Red, and Black
Dojo: Young Hong (wierd, huh)

[Chao]

Belt: 1st Degree Black Belt
Style: Tae Kwon Do
System: White, Orange, Yellow, Cameo, Green, Purplr, Blue, Brown, Red, Black.
When you get to purple, they start putting a recommended/decided stripe on your belt, so it takes two testings to get the next belt color.
When you get to red, its recommended, decided, then you get a "Black Belt recommended", and its half Black, half Red. Then after testing over the required material, you get the actual 1st degree.

Oh, Wasabi2u, does the butterfly twist have anything to do with a butterfly kick?

[Gnar Kill]

Belt: 2nd degree Brown
Style: ****o Ryu Gen Bukai Karate
System: White, Yellow, Orange, Green, Purple, Blue, Brown(3 degrees), if your under 18 red, if your over 18 black
Dojo: Lloydminster, Canada

[Shaolin Buddha]

Belt: Yellow with a little Green Tip thingy, 7th kup.
Style: TKD
System: White, Yellow, Green, Blue, Red, Black, with little colored tip thingy in between, so really 10 grades for colored belts, but usually white belts just go straight to yellow without going for a yellow tip thingy first.
Dojo: Canberra, Australia.

[Wild Dan Hibiki]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wasabi2u
[B]Oo wow, i didn't think we'd ever get there Gryph! Love to see progress happening in some old forums like these! Peace and continued good luck.

Recently i had to quit my style after attaining the rank of Second Degree Black Belt by the way. I didn't really wanna stop, but that's cool anyways.

If brazillian jiu jitsu wasn't so damn expensive i'd love to take that up, but so far i'm looking at some aikido.

take some Judo, closest thing u'll get to bjj. i wouldn't take aikido if i were u, not very useful in the street effectiveness department

[Sieg_Warheart]

BELT or RANK:White (just started)

Style:Tae Kwon Do/Karate

Dojo:H.I.M.A. (Hawthorne Instute of Martail Arts)

[Requiem]

belt: 3rd degree bb.(was going to stop after 2nd but my mom nagged me. im done now.)

[Requiem]

sorry i forgot to put my school and i cant edit.
dojo: Eaves Karate
style: Tai Kwon Do

[EternalTwilight]

Belt: Brown 1 (Testing for black may 8th)

style: shotokan

system: white, orange, yellow, blue, green, purple 2, purple 1, brown 3, brown 2, brown 1, shodan! we need 6 or 8 stripes per belt (depending on age) and you can only test for those every 3 month or so...

dojo: Focus Martial Arts

[MrScaryMuffin]

Belt: Orange, third degree
Style: Kickboxing and Brazilian JiuJitsu
System: white, yellow, high yellow, orange, high orange, green, high green, brown, high brown, black (each belt also have four degrees except black)
Dojo: Cobra Kai Martial Arts

[dahdyoh]

Belt: State of Florida Heavyweight Champion, 1993, 6 Golden Gloves

Style: Boxer(prizefighter)

[Gamer Smety]

Belt: Black
Style: Go-Dan Karate-do (one of the many okinawan syles)
System: White, gold, orange, green, purple, purple/black, blue, blue/black, red, red/black, brown, brown/black, black, black degree 1-5

[ColoradoAvalancheFanMatt]

Belt: Black Belt (2nd dan)

Style: Taekwondo (Olympic Style)

System: White, Orange, High Orange, Yellow, High Yellow, Purple, High Purple, Green, High Green, Blue, High Blue, Brown, High Brown, Red, High Red, Junior Black, Black

School: Strantz Taekwondo

[migz2000]

BELT: Brown Second Degree
STYLE: Hinode-Ryu (Mix of Shotokan and Ishin-Ryu, excuse me if that's spelled wrong.)
Dojo: Rising Sun Martial Arts, Pittsburgh, PA.

[Declan]

Style : Hapkido and Tai Kwon Do
Belt : White...I had to move to a different country and had to give it up...

[Singin Hobo]

Belt: Purple (4th out of 8)
Style: Kajukembo (Combination of elements from Karate, Judo, Jujitsu, Kempo, and Kung Fu)
I've been doing it for about a year... my dojo is a relatively slow study... I probably won't see black for 3 more years.

[Izlude]

I am currently 7th Dan in Bajiquan.

But I used to fight in UFC.

[Wild Dan Hibiki]

But I used to fight in UFC.

what a load of crap, whats your real name then?

[Shaolin Buddha]

Load of crap??? What's wrong with UFC?

[Wild Dan Hibiki]

the ufc is not a load of crap, he said that he fought in the ufc, which is a load of crap

[Chaotic Harmony]

not neccesarily, Michael Angelo, one of the fastest shredders in the world, sometimes uses powertabs.net for his use, it's not unknown for celebrity personalities or professionals to use websites that commoners like you and me also use

[Komodo Rogue]

A long time ago when this thread was first started by Wasabi2u I had my stuff posted. Well, it's been awhile since i've been on these forums so there have been a few changes :)

Style: Tae Kwon Do and Tai Chi hybrid

Belts: Tae Kwon Do - 2nd Degree Black Belt
Tai Chi - *Yellow Belt

*(I am aware however that many teachers do not award belts in this art)

[POKEY]

Belt: 2nd Degree Black Belt

Style: Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan

Dojo: PKSA (Professional Karate Schools of America) Detroit, Michigan
This is in Allience with the International Tang Soo Do federation ran by C.S. Kim

system: white, yellow, orange, orange green stripe, green, green red stripe, green red 2 stripe, red, red blue stripe, red 2 blue stripe, red 3 blue stripe, red 4 blue stripe, Midnight Blue (Equevelent to black but they use blue cause Black means death or the end and Midnight Blue means never ending which is what they want their holders to do) Midnight blue white stripe, midnight blue 2 white stripe, midnight blue 3 white stripe, Midnight blue with red stripe throughout entire belt.

[Nathaniel Brown]

i quit but i was:
Tai Kwon Do
Red 1(1 step b4 black but i had even pretested and they pissed me off so i quit)
Lewis Institute in Union City(but i was at a satellite in Tiptonville, TN)

[Guardian Devil]

I was a forth degree red belt in tea kwon do until I quit.

[drage469]

belt: white(due to teacher leaving and no one wanting to keep up the teaching)
style: Tae Kwon Do, little tai chi
dojo: self taught(tai chi), don't remember the name of the place (tkd)

[shazzcini]

belt: red 1
Style: tae kwon do
dojo: crow tae kwon do (Padstow Sydney)

[PW2]

Style: Tae Kwon Do

Belt: Purple

System: White, yellow, yellow sr., green, green sr., blue, blue sr., purple, purple sr, red, red sr, black. The sr stands for senior which is a black stripe running through the center of the belt. It indicates that you're in a more advanced rank of your belt color.

School: Henderson Tae Kwon Do check out the school's site at setakarate.com . And right now I am being tought by Micheal Henderson the president of SETA which stands for South Eastern Tae Kwon Do Association but, I also have my own school teaching other people. Only reason i have my own school is because my abilities in TKD are at a 2nd Black Belt lvl.

[Dol-Fan]

black belt tae kwon do
white belt in Judo and Jujitsu

am going to start Tai Chi, and KungFu...

[sephiroth4eva]

style: tae kwon do
belt: dang bo
system: white, yellow, orange, green, light blue, dark blue, purple, brown, red, red w/ black strip, dang bo, black.
dojo: Maryland, world classic martial arts.

[WhOkNoWs]

Style: Karate. Not as cool as TKD or TSD, but it gest the job done.

Belt: Green (twenty-eight days until I test for purple)

System: White-Orange-Yellow-Green-Purple-Brown with 1 black stripe-Brown with 2 black stripes-Brown with three black stripes-Black

Dojo: Master Joe Huntzinger's Karate, Mountaintop, PA

[Crazy Jamie]

It's been a while, so I thought I'd put this down again.

Style: Been doing Taekwon-Do for around three and a half years with a year break in the middle. Just got back into it. I was previously doing GTF TKD and am now doing WTF TKD. Which means learning new patterns. Fun.
Belt: Blue tag currently. Didn't take a grading in two years for various reasons- am taking it more seriously now.
System- White-yellow-green-blue-red-black with tag grades in the middle of each belt.
Dojo- Sheffield University Taekwon-Do Club, Sheffield.

[Demikain]

WTF Taekwon-Do sounds like fun. I have always wanted to do some kind of martial art but never really pursued it.

[Dark-luther]

( I love TKD, all the colors of the rainbow - lol )

Belt:
Black: ( which everyone get's on my case cause I don't like to wear - very uncomfortable )

Style: Ninjutsu/Taijutsu under the Bujinkan System
( other arts included, but out of respect won't name them as
they are not my focus )

System: White - but you don't need to wear it; we then allow older members to get green - red for women - this is voluntary though. The only thing that matters is Black, and aven then is only worn out of respect to who promoted you. The rest of the time it's just something to hold your weapons and keep my wallet from slipping from my gi.

[McAlister]

Belt: none...belts define liitation

style: Jeet Kune Do

System: the philosophy of Jeet Kune Do is an art with no definement no definition...its a chaotic art...and if a system is placed it ruins the progression of an artist to push forward past barriers

[Tokugawa]

Belt: Black (1st degree)

Style: Kajukembo

School: Doesn't exist anymore (many years ago).

I plan on studying Aikido soon. For the past twelve years I have studied Eastern Philosophy as it relates to the Martial Arts, and Japanese History.

[WAWA]

3rd degree black belt in tae kwon do 2nd degree hapkido

ive been to too many different ones to remember belt system.

took tae kwon do when i was 5... then kept it up while taking hapkido f

[JVTKD MA]

A long time ago (no doubt in a galixy far far away...) Wasabi2u started this thread. As it has now hit one hundred posts, we can continue the topic under a new thread.

Post here to list your belt and style. If your system has no belt ranking or if you teach yourself, you can also post here and detail your studies.

BELT or RANK:3rd Degree Black


SYSTEM:Tae Kwon Do


DOJO/SELF-TAUGHT:JVTKD Martial Arts

[JVTKD MA]

cool ,i've been Training for about 9 yrs. now ,,,,have ny own school here in Iowa

[XXiao]

belt: 2nd dan black

style: Kuk Sul (technically Ho Kuk Mu Sul) ancient Korean Martial art related to Tae Kwon Do

System: White, Yellow, Green, Blue, Red (2 degrees), Brown (3 degrees), Red Black, Black

[Typhon]

Belt: Black/brown

Style: Combined Brazillian and British (United States Marine Corps hand to hand combatives) Jujitsu.

[Holly]

Belt: Orange

Style: Karate (If the style had another name, I've long forgotten it)

It has been many years since I've done any form of martial arts, though. I might get back into it soon.

*realises after responding how old the thread was*

[glamiss]

the thread isn't "old", it's ongoing :) anyone can post here when they get promotions or newcomers to post their styles, stuff like that. thanks for joining us miss holly :)

[glamiss]

just got my shodan in shorin ryu, after a seminar (which i think was a partial test), a marathon pre-test (6 hours), a regular pre-test, and the actual test this morning.

[Masamune_RgNrK]

I'm a one stripe (out of three) blue belt in American Shotokan Karate. I have purple, red, and black left to go. I study at Lincourt's American Karate in my town of residence, Camden.

[Bian]

ITF Blue, Kickboxing, and Wing Chun.

[Shadoweye]

Belt: Red(Pentcak silat)&Green(TKD)

Style:Pentcak silat & TKD

System: Pentcak silat is my country tradisional martial art... it focus on inner power and enemies weak point. years ago many pentcak silat master has the
abillity to become immune to sharp object (Knife,Sword) and bullet...

[puertorock_papi]

Belt: Gray

Style: Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP)

System: Belt order - Tan, Gray, Green, Brown, Black and then each brown stripe on the black belt designates degrees. Once you hit Green you can qualify to be a an Instructor whcih would mean you receiev a brown tab and teach Marines up to your belt level. If your a black belt and have red tabs vice brown ones that mean you can teach Marines to be instructors up to what ever belt level they are. The art teaches us styles of fighting in unarmed combat, edged weapons, weapons of opportunity, rifle and bayonet techniques.

[Crazy Jamie]

Just got my black tag in Taekwon-Do. Black belt grading in April hopefully.

[kev_303]

Belt: Green
Style: Zen Do Ryu
Dojo: Salisbury Dojo, S.A.

[Zackman]

Oh, look what I found, a martial arts forum......

Belt: Senior 1st Green

Style: Chito-Ryu (Thousand Year Chinese School) Karate

System: JUNIORWhite (0, 1, 2, 3) yellow (2, 1) orange (2, 1) green (2, 1) blue (2, 1) brown (2) SENIOR advanced rankings Green (2, 1) Blue (2, 1) brown (2, 1) black (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

(it's hard going up ranks in advanced belts, they hardly grade you and they pick you when they think you are ready to be graded)
Once you get to advanced belts, you can teach lower ranks.

[Zackman]

Oops, my dojo: Universal School of Martial Arts; Rochester NY

[feraligatorus]

Belt: White
Style: Tae Kwon Do
Dojo: Empire House

Yeah i just started TKD yesterday >_>

[Jake Wilson]

Karate: Black belt, first level,
Tae Kwon Do: Green,
Japanese swordcraft: Adept

Hope that was what you are ment to do, i would appreciate it if someone gave me a hand, and told me how to do this properly.

[Crazy Jamie]

Just a little bit of an update, but I'm now a black tag in Taekwon-Do and have my black belt grading on April 23rd. If I pass I'll be posting a celebrationary thread in this forum (if it still exists :().

[glamiss]

Hope that was what you are ment to do, i would appreciate it if someone gave me a hand, and told me how to do this properly.looks like you got the hang of it! :) welcome to the forum.

[Masamune_RgNrK]

UPDATE

Just recently got my purple belt, only two more tests to go before black!

[Jake Wilson]

Thank you glamiss, Yay! i did it.
two weeks left till i am tried, to become supreme instead of adept sword master, YAY!

[Andre3000]

Rank: 1st Degree Black Belt
Martial Art: Kenpo Karate (Hawaiian Karate), Arnis (Stick Fighting)

Bit of Tae Kwon Do here and there

I also forgot, ben doin that since 1999.

Dojo: Grandmaster Rick Alemany's Kenpo Karate, San Francisco/Hawaii

[User]

I did karate a very long time ago, i was probably like 8 at the time, I didnt like it much then either, felt like a chore(my parents had just sort of forced us into it). Of course, now I'd be well up for it, but back then I wasnt. Now I have neither time money or motivation. I got upto my green belt (white, orange, red, yellow, green). I don't remember much of it, and when it comes to fighting, it usually only happens when I'm angry, and theres no order to fighting when the red mist has come down, I'm a mess. Now I think it'd be cool to do a martial art for the self discipline and keeping fit though.

[sploosh621]

Rank: No striped White Belt (I just started a little bit ago)
Style:Shotokan Karate
System:White,Yellow,Blue,Green,Orange,Brown,Black

[Lil Mager0]

Belt:RETSU - MASTERY OF TIME AND SPACE
Style:Ninjitsu
Dojo:I cannot tell you...
System:
RIN - STRENGTH of mind and body
KYO - DIRECTION OF ENERGY
TOH - HARMONY with the universe
SHA - HEALING of self and others
KAI - PREMONITION of danger
JIN - KNOWING THE THOUGHTS OF OTHERS
RETSU - MASTERY OF TIME AND SPACE
ZAI - CONTROL of the elements of nature
ZEN - ENLIGHTENMENT

Creed:
To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master...

[Dark-luther]

Nice bro...
except you spell ninjutsu with a U...not an I...

[BeerMonster26]

Styles
Muay Thai: 4 years Location: taught by one of my former army buddies whos
father actually still does train young Thai men this sacred art
Karate:Black Belt 5 Years...Location: Karate Studio US
A.B.C System (Advanced Battle Field Combatives) 3 years Learned from the actual video can be purchases online.

[Junxtion]

Belt: White (just started)

Style: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo

Dojo: USA Stars Foundation Judo Team, Moore Oklahoma

[Foomin]

Style: Tae Kwon Do, affiliated with the World Tae Kwon Do Association (WTA).
Belt: Brown.
System: White (no belt), Yellow, Green, Purple, Brown, Black, up to 9th degree.
Dojo: Heh, we practice in the gym of a middle school. Blue Mountain middle School.

For more information on my style and organization, check this site. Wtahq.com

[THe Last Raven]

belt:brown/ black (testing in one month)

Style:Shotokan

Do Jo: Westcoast Shotokan Assoceation

[Ar~ief]

belt:Green

Style:Taekwondo??

Do Jo: my School.. Al-pen

[jpj68rev]

Rank: First degree black belt

Style: Taekwondo

Dojo: Kittanning ATA

[THe Last Raven]

Belt: Brown 1 (Testing for black may 8th)

style: shotokan

system: white, orange, yellow, blue, green, purple 2, purple 1, brown 3, brown 2, brown 1, shodan! we need 6 or 8 stripes per belt (depending on age) and you can only test for those every 3 month or so...

dojo: Focus Martial Arts

yeah!!! it'a about time i found another shotokan guy in GW! i'm not sure if my post got split, but i'll post again to be safe

Belt:Brown 1 degree (black this december hopefully)
Style:shotokan
Place:Westcoast shotokan Karate (canada)

[Austin.]

belt.white (well havent got one yet been trainin for 6 months)
style BJJ boxing wrestling
dojo. a house under (tim "moab" stout)

[fullmetalnaruto]

belt:white with blue stripe
style:tae kwon do (is it tai or tae)

[Austin.]

im prettt sure its thai ( muay thai ) but thai kwon do may be different
hope this helps
haha
austin

[Zen/Sin]

It's Tae. It's Korean for "Way of the Hand and Foot"

Style: Tae Kwan Do

Belt: 1st Degree Blackbelt

Dojo: (It's been a year since i got my belt, i fell away from it, and have been training at home. It's gone through three name changes in the year this is the one i remember from when i left) Master Overbey's Tae Kwan Do Dojo, Emporia Kansas

[Ocean]

Belt: First degree brown belt (brown with three black stripes)
Style: Shaolin Kempo
System: White, yellow, orange, purple, blue, blue with green stripe, green, green with brown stripe, third degree brown (one black stripe), second degree brown (two stripes), first degree brown (three stripes), black
Dojo: USSD, Yorba Linda, CA

[MachSpeed]

Style(s): American Freestyle, Muay Thai Kick boxing mixed with Gracie Jujitsu, recently started Kenpo and Taekwondo

Belt: In American Freestyle: Black Belt, In Muay Thai/Gracie Jujitsu: Second Degree Blue (Blue-Black), In Kenpo: White belt, In TKD: Yellow belt

Dojo: American Freestyle: House under Au Pouga, Muay Thai/Gracie Jujitsu: Defense and Tactical Institute under Adam "Bomb" Alviso, Kenpo: Rocky Mountain Sports Academy under Troy Marchant, TKD: Charter School under O'Ryan Tatton. [All in Utah]

[KingJazzaD12]

karate; blue belt (almost red) with more than 5 years of xp under me belt
pro street fighting: with more than 4 and a half years of xp under my belt
and juijitsu: with more than 2 years under my belt and orange belt
:bashhead: :bashhead: :bashhead:

[~Crystal Magician~]

BELT or RANK: 3rd Black
SYSTEM: Chun Kuk Do
DOJO/SELF-TAUGHT: Multiple Places (roughly 15 years total)

&

BELT or RANK: Blue
SYSTEM: Hawaiian Kenpo
DOJO/SELF-TAUGHT: College Campus Dojo; didn't have a name

[Ahansberger93]

Red Belt
American Shotokan Karate
Lincourts American Karate, New York

[Ziyi]

dont have a belt i teach myself
Moi Fah
i study from books and from internet and try things out and im training i a hard way hitting a tree with my bare fists its real painfull but its worth it in my opinion my door it was under blood cleaned it up

[~Crystal Magician~]

A better option that a tree...get a piece of board and wrap it in twine (or small rope). It will provide a slight cushion, but it still hard enough to toughen your knuckles. It's also more convenient that hitting a tree since you can do it in-doors. You can also mount it on a wall.

[Ziyi]

ok i will try that thanks