| Different styles do different belt colors. It all depends on the style, system, or organization.
When I did karate, the ranks went like this:
White, (White with yellow stripe for kids only), Yellow, Orange, Green, Green with blue stripe, Blue, Blue with brown stripe, Brown, Brown with black stripe, Black (and its various degrees).
In many respects, it is all very similar to the belt system in Tae Kwon Do (since, if memory serves me correctly, the Koreans started off with a Japanese belt system, then changed it to accomidate their arts just as Karate adapted the belt system from Judo). |