u know start at white belt and ending an black belt. I mean there are so many styles that have belt rankings. So, were did this all start from (belt rankings).
2007-09-28 19:54:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
-y was the belt ranking started
-who or what style started it
2007-09-28 19:55:55 · update #1
Hi there
I'm sure you get lots of posts explaining this but the simple answer is that it came from Judo. The founder of judo would travel between the different clubs of his senior instructors and wanted to know which of their students were of high ranking so that he could use the best ones as ukes for demonstration of technique without casuing serious injury. Then the west got hold of the concept and the rest is money making history. So the concept is less than 100 years old and is a modern thing which has very little to do with any koryu arts of Japan.
Best wishes
idai
2007-09-28 21:21:04 · answer #1 · answered by idai 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo, developed the Japanese belt ranking KYU (non black belt )and DAN ( Black belt ) system.
He was a Jujutsu Master and wanted to create a sport. So he created the belt system along with the sport of Judo. He was granted the right by the Emperor.
The whole idea of the belt turning black is BS. In those days, when the environments were cleaner, no matter how much you drag a white cloth on the floor, it will not turn black.
People love to implement myths as if they are truths.
2007-09-29 09:31:20 · answer #2 · answered by Darth Scandalous 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All three answers above are correct.
-The idea of the black belt comes from the fact practitioners who trained a long time would acquire a black belt by not washing it.
-Judo founder Jigoro Kano wanted an official system for ranking practitioners, so he introduced the color system.
-In the west and in the United States in particular, people tend to be more sensitive to the need for recognition. A lot of schools now capitalize on this and have given belts an attention they never had in Japan, and which they don't really deserve.
2007-09-29 09:22:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
When Judo began being practiced outside of Japan. Mikonosuke Kawaishi is generally regarded as the first to introduce various colored belts in Europe in 1935 when he started to teach Judo in Paris. He felt that western students would show greater progress if they had a visible system of many colored belts recognizing achievement and providing regular incentives. This system included white, yellow, orange, green, blue, and purple belts before the traditional brown and black belts.
2007-09-29 17:46:14 · answer #4 · answered by Judoka 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jigoro Kano needed a kind of indexing system to keep track of who knew what. Thus the belt system. Many martial arts have adopted a similar system.
Sometimes there are not enough colors for an instructor to keep track of things (or the style might have a lot of material to learn) so electrical tape and striped belts are used also.
2007-09-29 13:28:33 · answer #5 · answered by R. Lee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The reponse above is correct, you always hear the story of not washing the belt and that is why we have different color belts, but the truth is it is a "money" thing here in the United states. The belt really just holds up the pants.
2007-09-29 08:45:13 · answer #6 · answered by Alan L 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The story I heard from my Aikido sensei is that there were originally only two belts, white and black. Your whole gi started white, and you washed all of it except the belt. Somebody walking into your dojo with a "black" belt was to be regarded with more respect but also held to a higher standard.
I've never fact-checked this little bit of mythology, but it sounds cool.
2007-09-29 03:01:07 · answer #7 · answered by djnightgaunt 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋