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2. Rank in judo - Wikipedia

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   Since then it has been widely adopted by other modern martial arts. [1] In the current system as in use in Japan, there are six student grades ranked in descending numerical order. Beginners were given the rank of sixth kyū (六級, rokkyū) and wore a light blue belt.

3. Brazilian jiu-jitsu ranking system - Wikipedia

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   Since then, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, judo, and many other martial arts have adopted the use of colored belts to denote students' progression in the arts. [5] The first official belt ranking system was created in 1967 by the Jiu-Jitsu Federation of Guanabara. [citation needed] Before those days, there were three belt colors in Brazilian jiu-jitsu ...

4. Black belt (martial arts) - Wikipedia

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   The red-and-white belt is often reserved only for ceremonial occasions, and a regular black belt is still worn during training. At 9th or 10th dan some schools award red. In some schools of jujutsu, the shihan rank and higher wear purple belts. These other colors are often still referred to collectively as "black belts".

5. Dan (rank) - Wikipedia

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   In many martial arts, black belts are often worn for all dan grades. In others, different colors are used, with the highest grade (10th dan ) sometimes wearing a red belt in some systems. In Jūdo, 6th to 8th dan may wear a red and white-patterned belt, and 9th dan and above may wear a solid red belt.

6. Red belt (martial arts) - Wikipedia

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   A red belt is one of several colored belts used in some martial arts to either denote rank or differentiate opponents in a competition. Like the more commonly known black belt , its use varies between arts, with most using it for the style founder, grandmaster or other high rank, while others use it as the immediately pre–black belt rank or ...

7. Kyū - Wikipedia

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   However, white is often the lowest ranked belt and brown is the highest kyū rank, and it is common to see the darker colors associated with the higher ranks, i.e., the closest to black belt. Historically, students of martial arts would only have one belt or obi, which they would hand-dye when the next ranking was achieved.

8. Gracie jiu-jitsu ranking system - Wikipedia

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   A jiu-jitsu blue belt with three stripes. Having its roots in the Japanese martial art and sport of judo, Gracie/Brazilian jiu-jitsu adopted a similar colored belt system to signify a practitioner's progression within the art. However, to differentiate Brazilian jiu-jitsu from the other disciplines, a solid bar was included on the belt near one ...

9. Obi (martial arts) - Wikipedia

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   The martial arts obi are most often worn in the koma-musubi knot (square knot); in practice where a hakama is worn, the obi is tied in other ways. In many martial arts, the colour of the obi signifies the wearer's skill level. Such colours usually start from white for beginners and end in black or red-and-white for masters.