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Styles - namely shotokan
Lenny (Lynette) Started conversation Sep 26, 2001
a great intro to karate but I felt there should be an addendum about style. I have been practising Shotokan karate for some time now and its apparent there are one or two things diffferent to other forms which ought to be specified.
Shotokan has a greater number of belts:
White
Orange
Red
Yellow
Green
Purple
Purple-and-white
brown
brown-and-white
brown and 2 whites
black
Maybe I'm just being picky but I'm part way through this system with a while to go before black. It seems miles away!
Also, all practitioners of karate are beginners until they reach black. That is when (apparently) you start to really learn. In Japan they don't bother with coloured belts and everyone is white until they reach black standard.
Styles - namely shotokan
Researcher 199942 Posted Aug 5, 2002
Actually they do have coloured belts in Japan. In fact I think it was based on the Judo system of belts in an effort to "Japanify" karate when it was brought to Japan at the beginning of the 20th Century. What you might mean is that they didn't have coloured belts in Okinawa before it was brought to Japan.
Styles - namely shotokan
Researcher 210147 Posted Nov 27, 2002
Actually, Even with shotokan and the various schools and sub styles the belt structure changes.
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