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Just wanted to blow my own horn, I was promoted to blue belt today in Nihon Goshin Aikido!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by Kirk
How does the belt ranking system in Aikido work? What are the
step colors?
Originally posted by Jas
in Nihon Goshin Aikido we have seven belts:
White (Roko-Kyu)
Yellow (Go-Kyu)
Blue (Yon-Kyu)
Green (San-Kyu)
Purple (Ni-Kyu)
Brown (I-Kyu)
Black (1st Dedree-Sho-Dan)
Originally posted by kimura
Shouldn't the technique show the level of the student, and not the belt color ?
Originally posted by arnisador
This will be a tough argument to win, no matter how sensible--especially in the U.S., the belt system is very ingrained. Parents are the worst--they want little Johnny to get his promotions regularly!
Originally posted by Jas
In Nihon Goshin Aikido each belt has 10 classical techniques, these are done of of grips and no resistence is offered by Uke, these are done to learn the machanices of a technique. To be promoted you have to demonstrate all 10 techniques of your rank. As a white belt for example you will not learn yellow belt classical techniques or above, but you will learn applications of yellow belt and above. Another example when I was a Yellow belt I learned a move called handshake, I learned to perform it off of a full speed roundhouse and over hand strike but I didnt learn the handshake classical technique until blue belt. So belts are really just to know where you stand in your rank for testing purposes.