How to Earn a Black Belt in Karate | Karate Lessons

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So how to earn your black belt. Well, obviously you have to approach your training with diligence and with discipline and with regularity. And training in that way, of course you'll go through the earlier ranks of colored belts and perhaps after three years, four years, maybe five years on average you'll get your black belt. But black belt is the first level of your real progress and can be where you start refining your technique.

In fact, the first black belt is shogun in Japanese which means the beginning level, literally. You're building your foundation until you reach that beginning level and I often liken getting your shogun to passing your driving test. You're allowed to go on the road. When you get your shogun, you know, you can say you've really practiced karate. You have your basics down to a certain degree. You have your kata, your forms, and your kumite. And you can, you can do it with some proficiency. Training two or three times a week is strongly advised. Obviously, home training as well to develop a little bit more is encouraged.

And you'll go through the ranks of the kyu grades. Kyu grades are what we call the grades before black belt and the numbers start from nine going up to first kyu, which is your brown belt. They'll be three brown belts, two purple, two green, two orange in my dojo. Different dojos have different colors. Sometimes they'll be yellows and reds in the early grades, but most people have green, purple, and brown prior to black belt.

You'll take a grading perhaps every six months, sometimes less in some places. I do them every six months and I generally don't let students test unless they're ready. So twice a year, three or four years, and you should be close to black belt.

[joumaeetkreef]

A blackbelt is not a thing you wear. Its a thing you become.

[alexvignola]

Karate is in mind, karate is in heart, karate is never around hips. Even though you might feel proud about your new degree, which I have respect for, you shouldn't tell it so widely because that would mean you only give it a physical and superficial importance wether than a spiritual importance. Belt is used as a guideline in karate to know where the student is in his learning and a belt will always be used to hold pants.

[anyadic]

yes it's been 6 years and i finally got a black belt

[LukaLipert]

Real way to get a black belt in karate.
1. Stop watching this video
2. Go practice karate with a real trainer

[Al-ztgl]

Achieving your black belt is not the peak of the mountain, but the base of the mountain. Your kyu grades are the path to the mountain. A black belt is a white belt who never quit, no matter how long it takes. Always look to your next lesson, not to your next belt, train hard and the belts will come. Achieving a black belt does not mean that you can destroy others, it means that you have created yourself.

[zidi_osman]

I don't understand I'm only getting my black belt in April and I've been doing this for 10 years

[MrAllRounder]

Its 3 years now to join karate and my coach said to me that i hav to practice hard and i may get the black belt in the next year!:)
In my karate school theres brown belt hav 3 ..they r called 3rd kyu, 2nd kyu and 1st kyu..Now i m in 2 nd que

[Eric]

here's another way: You will need:
Some money

step 1: order a black belt

step 2: wear it

[Brckano]

15 years ago, for blak belt you were need minimum 6-7 years, now 3-4 years?!!?

[CaptainMorgan]

in my dojo we would have the tests once every year to ensure that you also grow spiritualy and become ready to use the power we developed. We'd go through the belt grades white, yellow, red, green, purple, 2 browns and then the first black. So about 8 years to your black belt.
Also....DISCIPRINE!

[ebfivanhunligamer]

IMO Bell, I was a student a long time ago and learned quite a lot. We did not have belts or ranks but we did have Kata.. What it taught for me was that through Kata your muscle memory reflex was built to counter most situations that are presented, and through that be able to defend and counter attack when the situation provided a opportunity to do so. Sensei please correct me if I am incorrect, but through Kata a student should able to effectively defend 90% of any melee situation. Much respect.

[mariusgustavus]

I am training for 9 years right now and got my 3th Brownbelt (first kyu) and im preparing right now. so when the actuall tast takes place it will be close to 10 Years of training 2-3 times a week

[Arron]

Here is an easier way.
1) Get black paint and a white belt.
2) Paint the white belt.
3) Let it dry and you now have a black belt!

[jordanforrest]

I've been doing martial arts for 21 years (I'm 30) and I got just got my 4th Degree Black Belt :DDD

[hannahbrigham]

That’s Richard Amos he’s one of my senior sences 🥋 I got my black belt after 4 1/2 years

[oosmanbeekawoo]

The black belt in Shotokan in a joke: they start giving you belts after just one or two Taikyoku's, which aren't even official Kata's. You get your brown belt at around Bassai Dai which is just 50% of the way. Sometimes the black belt is given after just 10 katas out of 32. Learn Karate for yourself and ignore the black belt!!

[busaj]

People seem too concerned about time... 10 years, 4 years, 2 weeks 🙄 Its about the time u put into it like anything else. U train hours & hours many times a week, u can get there faster... u do less takes longer. Why is this hard to understand 😑

[RuslanMigal]

it took me 2 years to get my first degree black belt than 2 and a half years to get my second degree black belt and 3 years to get my third degree. so have been doing taekwondo for a little over 8 years

[willkaye]

Hi guys I do karate if you don't believe me I'll tell you what order belts go in ok white yellow orange green blue red brown brown brown black that's what my class belts go up thank you for reading

[ThelegendarySandyran]

The belt system is totally different in Norway, in Shotokan Karate. We have White(0.kyu) first, then White(with a yellow stripe)9.kyu), then Yellow(8.kyu), then Orange(7. kyu), then Green(6.kyu), then Blue(5.kyu), Then Purple(4.kyu), then three brown belts(3-, 2- and 1.kyu), then 10 black belts(1.dan-10.dan). And I am a brown belted "kyu(pupil), " with the first brown belt(3.kyu).