enough money or a credit card and a shop or online shop that sells them, then you can buy as many or acquire as many as you want,
Now if you mean to learn and be promoted, than that can vary from person to person. Some learn faster than others or differently. So depending on which art you are studying and how well you are learning it will determine when you will test and be able to get your next rank.
In all honesty though, rank means very little to most advanced MA, we care more about you knowing what you are talking about and doing than what you say you have on paper or on your waist
Actions speak a lot louder than words so train hard as you can and you will earn them all one day, but no one can give you a time limit it will all depend on YOU.
2007-08-29 07:20:52
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answered by Legend Gates Shotokan Karate 7
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If it is a good school and instructor with high standards you can maybe achieve it in about five years. This usually requires attendance on average of three to four times a week and working out hard and putting in a 110% effort. There is an old saying in traditional schools with good, old instructors that one in one hundred students will reach Brown-belt and that one in one hundred Brown-belts will reach Black-belt. So a Black-belt was literally one in a thousand students.
Many programs and newer instructors have watered this down and tried to make it more fun for kids and adults to the point where they use the testing and promotion system to keep students motivated and enrolled and promote based solely on time-not on ability. Good schools and good instructors will not do that and will fail students irregardless of time and when you compare the two the differences are very obvious. Ultimately you may never reach the rank of Black-belt but if you go to a Mcdojo you can probably get it with out much trouble or effort and in a few years. However, your skill and experience or lack of it will be very evident in a street situation or when you encounter someone that truly earned their rank at a place that had high standards and where promotions were not automatic and the programs made overly fun.
2007-08-29 03:23:13
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answered by samuraiwarrior_98 7
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It really depends on the place, but a good general rule of thumb is 1 year per colour.
Some schools use levels as well as colours, so you have different "kyu" which then have colours spread out. A typical example is a 1st kyu and 2 kyu brown belt. They are both brown belts but they are different levels.
And each style and association will be different but typically they have at least yellow and/or orange, green and/or blue (maybe purple) and brown. So you are looking at 3-6 years to get to black if you train fairly hard.
Of course this is a big generalization but it is a pretty good guideline to follow. If you want to know your own specific group's timeline, you will need to ask your teachers or seniors (but they will probably just say it depends on the person...which is true...haha).
Goood luck! And remember the belts don't really mean anything...
2007-08-29 02:51:53
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answered by mafundhelper 5
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I think belts in Karate are useless. They were added in the 1950s after the respected Karate master, Chojun Miyagi passed on. He was firmly against the use of belts, and thought people should be judged as individuals. If you can ignore belts, and just try to get good at karate, then you will get much more out of your practice. If you try to aquire belts, you'll realize you haven't aquired anything.
2007-08-29 10:51:02
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answered by Anonymous
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That depends on you. There are no guarentees, and anyone who guarentees you a belt is after your cash, nothing else. And you may never achieve the higher ranks. I've been in Karate for 16 years, and I'm only a 4th dan. It's not because of being lazy or not working hard. It's because it takes time.
2007-08-29 08:29:18
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answered by seiryudo 2
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It takes for you easy or difficult. When you are deserving to a higher belt then youll got promoted. There you can finish all the belts in karate but you need practice and practice before you advanced to a higher belt....
2007-08-28 23:13:48
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answered by wooyt 2
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You should not be focused on rank. You should be focused on your training and improvement.
Rank is abstract and does not exist outside the walls of the training facility. It is just a means of organizing students within a school. Rank should not even be talked about.
Also, just because you achieve a high rank it does not mean you have "graduated", it is not like college. Once you achieve a black belt you are just beginning to understand the art.
"If you are walking toward a castle and all you look at is the castle you will surely trip upon the road you are walking."
-Lau Tzu
2007-08-29 05:26:34
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answered by spidertiger440 6
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Focus less on acquiring a belt and focus more on becoming a higher ranked belt. Time will go by faster and you will be a much better black belt.
2007-08-29 03:11:32
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answered by Lise 2
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Generally speaking in a good and legitimate style of Okinawan or Japanese karate it should roughly take you about five years of hard training to earn your first degree black belt. This includes: the basics, kata, sparring, tournament, kumite, and bunkai training all with weapons, multiple attack and defense scenarios.
Any shorter time period is dancing lessons.
2007-08-29 08:43:21
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answered by Anonymous
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depends. I have a seven year old son who is a first degree black belt and a 12 year old daughter that is a second degree. Both in Tae Kwon Do. They both started when they were four but train five days per week. It took each of them three years.
2007-08-28 23:19:53
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answered by ninety9point8 4
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