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TAEKWONDO (ITF) TAEKWONDO (WTF) WING CHUN WHITE 10™ KUP WHITE W/ YELLOW STRIPE 9™ KUP YELLOW 8™ KUP YELLOW W/GREEN STRIPE 7™ KUP GREEN 6™ KUP GREEN W/BLUE STRIPE 5™ KUP BLUE 4™ KUP BLUE W/ RED STRIPE 3B0 KUP RED 2м0 KUP RED W/ BLACK STRIPE 1*TKUP BLACK W/ 1 GOLD STRIPE 1»T DAN BLACK W/ 2 GOLD STRIPES 2nd DAN BLACK W/ 3 GOLD STRIPES 3B0 DAN MAX RANK: 10th DAN WHITE WHITE W/ YELLOW STRIPE 10™ KUP YELLOW 9™ KUP ORANGE 8™ KUP GREEN 7™ KUP BLUE 6™ KUP BLUE W/ RED STRIPE S™KUP RED 4™ KUP RED W/ BLACK STRIPE 3BD KUP RED W/ 2 BLACK STRIPES 2м0 KUP RED W/ 3 BLACK STRIPES 1"KUP BLACK W/ 1 GOLD STRIPE 1»T DAN BLACK W/ 2 GOLD STRIPES 2*® DAN BLACK W/ 3 GOLD STRIPES 3B0 DAN MAX RANK: 10™ DAN BLACK WITH 1 GREEN STRIPE 1" KUP BLACK WITH 2 GREEN STRIPES 2*® KUP BLACK WITH 1 BLUE STRIPE 3B0 KUP BLACK WITH 2 BLUE STRIPES 4™ KUP BLACK WITH 3 BLUE STRIPES 5™ KUP BLACK WITH 1 RED STRIPE 6™ KUP BLACK WITH 2 RED STRIPES 7™ KUP RED Iй DUAN RED W/ YELLOW STRIPE 2»® DUAN RED W/ 2 YELLOW STRIPES 3B0 DUAN RED W/ 3 YELLOW STRIPES 4™ DUAN RED W/ YELLOW STRIPE 5™ DUAN RED W/ 2 YELLOW STRIPES 6™ DUAN YELLOW 7™ DUAN YELLOW W/BLACK CHARACTERS 8™ DUAN YELLOW W/RED CHARACTERS 9™ DUAN MAX RANK: 9™ DUAN
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Just the coloured belts are a pretty modern, young tradition, beginning with the commercial schools that were built as businesses to teach kids primarily for money, as opposed to the older, traditional schools. It's easier to keep kids from getting bored and quitting (and therefor their parents stop paying their monthly fees) if there's a lot more achievable ranks they can get to faster, to feel like they're accomplishing something.
The more old-fashioned the school, the fewer belts they have. Some only had four ranks: Beginner, Advanced student (who assisted teaching the beginner classes) Teacher, and the school's Master/founder. Beginners got white belts; Teachers wore black; what advanced students wore varied from school to school, and the Master wears whatever the hell he wants, because it's his school!
So where did the idea for these dozen or more pretty coloured belts come from?
The story goes, when you joined one of these older schools, they gave you a brand new white belt, and the belts were left at the dojo when not training. They were never washed, frequently soaked in sweat, so unsurprisingly, they eventually started growing mold. Yellow, blue, green, brown, etc... and when the mold finally died completely and turned black, folks knew you'd been coming to the dojo for a long, long time.