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Question

in any marial arts dicipline to become a black belt in a year? also could some one explain how the dan system works?

Answer 1

their probably is a martial art that you can get a black belt in a year, but you didn't really achieve a black belt. you have to work at it to earn it. As for the Dan system the lower the rank the higher the gup. This is how it goes for us.
White- 10th gup
Yellow- 9th gup
Purple- 8th gup
Orange- 7th gup
Green- 6th gup
Green /w stripe- 5th gup
Blue- 4th gup
Brown- 3rd gup
Brown /w stripe- 2nd gup
Brown /w 2 stripes- 1st gup
Black- 1st Dan
then goes up to...
2nd degree black- 2nd Dan
and so on. this might not be the same way for all types of martial arts but hope it helps anyway.

Answer 2

I got a black belt last year, cost me £12.99 from Next, and goes best with a pair of dark blue jeans.
Seriously though, it is down to the school, not the martial art, how fast they award black belts, so for all you TKD bashers just think on before spamming the boards with your opinion. If a school is part of a McDojo's chain then that is the school that is at fault, not the art.

Don't be too hasty to get a black belt, it is what is inside you as a martial artist that is what matters. Strength, Integrity, Self-Confidence, Perserverance, The Way of the Warrior does not magically come when you are handed a belt, it is earned and learnt through years of practice and hard work.

Want proof? I am the current RAF TKD Champion fighting all weights and all belts. I have held the title for 2 years, and won a coloured belt division the year before that. I also won the RAF Karate Kumite this year. Do I wear a black belt? No, it's a nice shiny red one with black tags on it (1st Kup).

Answer 3

It is impossible for you or anyone to obtain ablack belt in any form of arts in less than four years. You will not have the caperbility to understand the arts form for a start and then there is the philosophy of it all that only comes with time served. If you were to gain a black belt in a year I would let my 6yr old daughter take you on and she has only just begun the arts and is taking her first grading on Wednesday. Your belt would not be worth the paer it is written on. The Dan grades are for when you have the black belt, the first dan is the black belt itself and then the second and third and so on or gradings taken at the higher lever which there are no other bellts to be awarded. Learn the art for what it is and not what you can boast about to your mates.

Answer 4

Firstly, an answer to your questions
Q. 1 - not a good one ITS A FACT
Q. 2 - basically the higher the dan number the higher the grade/level eg. 1st dan ---> 10th dan

Secondly a few things i suggst you should think about and ponder over.
A quote that i think sums up gradings/belts/rank etc.
"a black belt only does 1 thing, hold your pants up"
the belt is nothing the belt is probably the most invaluable thing you will have (minus the fact you do not use it as a weapon of course). it is the mindset of a black belt,that is the most important thing when aquiring belts.
In most styles probably a blue or red belt , brown belt etc. knows the same techniques as a black belt but what separates each one is the mindset of the practitioner.

Martial arts is not simply about getting a black belt, proving to others you can do 540 aerial crescent kicks or KO using nerve strikes etc. or even winning medals and tophies, martial arts is about expression of yourself, using what you have , be it your fingers, hands, feet, elbows, shoulders, knees, head whatever!
to express yourself "totally."
A title of one of bruce lee's books sums this up perfectly in my opinion: "The Art of Expressing the Human Body"
.... because that is really what your doing..... expressing yourself through martial arts...

hope this provides a new outlook on martial arts, life, or even just provides you with a few minutes of interesting reading :)

Answer 5

It is possible to gain a black belt in a year but the quality would be very poor and other martial arts practitioners probably wouldn't recognise it anyway. The belt system varies between each martial art but the theory behind it is that you have a grading every 3 to 4 months and rise up towards black belt-for example-if there are 8 coloured belts you will be able to get your black belt in 2-3 years.With some martial arts you can double grade which means you rise two belts so that could get you to your black belt quicker.
Once at your black belt you become a dan grade with dan meaning "step" or "degree".The system normally runs the same for all martial arts and that is that you have to train the number of years of your dan grade before you get graded again-so if you are a 1st Dan you can take your 2nd Dan grading in one year,then from 2nd Dan you can take your 3rd Dan grading in two years and so on.The highest dan ranks are sometimes reserved for the founder or leaders of a style and other high ranking students can only be promoted by them.

Answer 6

its possible some place but the quality probably isnt good at all.a good number of places have about 7 belt levels(give or take) and test around 3 or 4 months so if you go regularly and dont fail any test or skip any belts that would be about 2yrs and that is being very generous it totally depends on your skill level. its not usual to not pass a test especially when you get higher ranking such as a brown belt

and it depends on the style my krav maga instuctor has a black belt in shotokan and he said it took him about 6yrs and this is a guy who had other martial arts exprience. i hear it takes from 4-8yrs 2 get a black belt in brazilian jujitsu

if you get a black belt in any art in a year you probably just paying for the belt and not the training. and you dont want that you want the skill. if you just want the belt go to a martial art store or ebay and buy a black belt it would save you a lot of money


the dan system: black belt is far from mastering an art think of it like a college BA degree you are fairly skilled in it but the dans can be like getting a masters and a phd.

the lower dans are awarded through exams sometimes competition, the higher ones are more honorary for the contributions you made to the art.

10th degree is normally the highest and is awarded typically after death as the highest dan

Answer 7

Much like what JK said, it is possible to GET a black belt in a year, but I do not believe it is possible to BECOME a Black Belt in a year. You can GET a black belt by contacting any Martial Arts store and paying around $10. You can get one by going to a "McDojo" or a "Black Belt factory" type of martial arts school and paying high prices for a little knowledge and a lot of smoke blown into your posterior.
BECOMING a Black Belt is far different. In my definition, a Black Belt is someone who has matered the BASICS of his style and can now pass down this knowledge to beginning students. He begins teaching at this level, but the learning never really stops. At Black Belt level, a student should know about how his style was developed, what are his style's good points and bad points, and some of the history about his style. At some point, a Black Belt should know or become aware of the fact that you do not need to fight to prove anything anymore. Yeah, you're good....yeah you can hurt someone now....what's the point? Is what this guy did to me actually worth putting him in the hospital? Because a Black Belt can do that, and he may HAVE to do that if he doesn't just walk away from a fight.
In my opinion, BECOMING a Black Belt involves far more of a learning about yourself than it involves assimilating techniques. Gang members have techniques that can hurt or kill people- they are not Black Belts. Soldiers are trained how to fight and in self defense- they are not Black Belts. If GETTING a black belt (notice the capitalization) is what's important, then I will give you mine. If BECOMING a Black Belt is what's important, then it will take a LOT more effort.

Answer 8

it is possible, but the club would probably be crap, where i train in American kickboxing you can grade up to blue belt at any grading(white,red,yellow,orange,green,purple,blue,brown,black) which would probably take about a year by itself, then we have to train for brown belt for 9 months then train for black for 12 months so providing you pass all grades every time it would take about 2 years and nine months, maybe even longer, that's how it is where i train, others may be different.
Dans are black belts, once you get a black belt you can still train in another art giving you another Dan, my instructor has 6 Dans in American kickboxing/ karate and freestyle sport karate.
Anyway its the journey that's important not the destination,if it takes you four years of training then you will be better than if you only trained for a year.

Answer 9

It is possible to recieve the actual belt and be awarded it. However it is NOT possible to recieve the belt and recieve the training that the rank should indicate along with it in a year.

IE: if you recieve a black belt in a year it is a belt-factory and the rank is a fraud. Most likely any one month student in an art that trains for real would take out a so called "black belt" that was gained for a year.

Answer 10

No it should not be possible. A black belt should take between 4 to 6 years training twice a week. A club may for some bizare reason grade some one to black belt but he/she wont be of black belt standard.Go to any martial arts training and watch the black belts train.