Purple Belt

[disgruntled]

given that my rank on this site right now is a purple belt, it got me thinking.... do any of you use purple belts at your schools? i would imagine it would hard to feel tough wearing a purple belt. and what do you say when someone that doesn't know your MA ranking askes what belt you are? i think they would want to kick your butt as soon as they hear purple! not to mention all the gay teletubby jokes you would have to listen to. now i know that at least one purple belt will make a post saying they would just knock out anyone that made fun of their belt, but let's face it, anyone below black belt is all talk. and i am not saying that black belts can beat anyone up, but by that level then tend to be a tad more realistic and realize how much harder a real fight is.

[gingersi]

we dont have purple belts at our club

[JohnLi]

We have them at our dojo.

[RiveraRa]

We have them in BJJ.

White - Blue - Purple - Brown - Black

I figure that by the time I reach purple I wont care about jokes. Thats an accomplishment!

[Chapel]

We used to have it, but we changed the system a few years ago.

[complete]

We had them in Hwa Rang Do.

In fact, I used the Hwa Rang Do's belt system on this forum for all the colored belts.

[SuperCrew]

My school used to have them, but changed to Brown belt a few years ago. Not sure why, but I think it was a part of the total affiliation change they did.

[RiveraRa]

My wife said she just saw some kid on tv who was a "camel" belt in some sort of kung-fu. I asked if they meant camel as in the animal (ie a frog belt, a bird belt, etc) or as in the color camel (tan i guess). She said color. I could just imagine a school moving away from the primary and secondary type colors to colors like marigold, squash, and magenta

[complete]

More color and more belts = more money.

[The Kidd]

We have them, White-Gold-Orange-Green-Purple-Blue etc.

[Chapel]

Originally Posted by RiveraRa

My wife said she just saw some kid on tv who was a "camel" belt in some sort of kung-fu. I asked if they meant camel as in the animal (ie a frog belt, a bird belt, etc) or as in the color camel (tan i guess). She said color. I could just imagine a school moving away from the primary and secondary type colors to colors like marigold, squash, and magenta

Are you sure it wasn't a 'Camo' belt? I've seen several places that advertise a camoflauge colored belt.

[gingersi]

Camo belt? what next!!!!!

we use the traditional...white,yellow, green, blue, red, black with 1/2 grades inbetween....

[disgruntled]

what would the point of a camo belt be??? make your mid-section blen in with the background so that people run in fear from the person who's mid-section is missing???

[gingersi]

could also have camo from knee down on suit so people cant see kicks coming......

[disgruntled]

Originally Posted by gingersi

could also have camo from knee down on suit so people cant see kicks coming......

if that is not meant as a joke i am going to cry!