White9th KyuYellow Belt8th Mon KyuOrange With Green Stripe8th KyuOrange With White Stripe7th Mon KyuOrange With Red Stripe7th KyuOrange Belt6th Mon KyuBlue With Green Stripe6th KyuBlue With White Stripe5th Mon KyuBlue With Red Stripe5th KyuBlue Belt4th Mon KyuPurple With Green Stripe4th KyuPurple With White Stripe3rd Mon KyuPurple With Red Stripe3rd KyuPurple Belt2nd Mon KyuBrown With White Stripe1st KyuBrown Belt1st DanBlack Belt 1st Dan2nd DanBlack Belt 2nd Dan3rd DanBlack Belt 3rd Dan4th DanBlack Belt 4th Dan5th DanBlack Belt 5th Dan6th DanBlack Belt 6th Dan7th DanBlack Belt 7th Dan8th DanBlack Belt 8th Dan9th DanBlack Belt 9th Dan10th DanBlack Belt 10th Dan
It will depend on the style of karate being taught at your YMCA. They are not the same everywhere. The instructor will be able to provide you the requirements for the various belts.
white,black,green,yellow,red,pink,blue
Many times, the order changes from school to school. Generally the basic order is:WhiteYellowOrangePurpleBlueGreenBrownRedBlack
its spelled shotkan the belts in order are as follows: white yellow orange green 2nd degree green blue purple 2nd degree purple red 2nd degree red brown 2nd degree brown black it takes about 3 or 4 years to receive a black belt maybe even 5 sometimes
Honestly the best thing to do would be either to get a martial arts catalog (I prefer AWMA but Century would probably be easier to get) and order some from there or use Amazon. Using bath robes and cloth belts just looks dorky and unconvincing.
Belt order usually is not fixed and changes from style to style and school to school. But there guaranteed to be 10 color belts followed by 10 black belts. Order of color belts may differ.
White, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Purple, Green, Brown, Black
White, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown, black
There are scores of karate styles, most of them offshoots of other styles of karate. The primary styles as recognized by the World Karate Federation for form exercises are: Shotokan-ryu Shito-ryu Budokan Kyokushinkai Gojo-ryu Wado-ryu Shorin-ryu Uechi-ryu Almost all other styles are influenced by one or more of these. If you're curious, Chuck Norris has an 8th degree black belt in Tai Kwon do.
The form of shotokan i do follows: white red orange yellow green purple purple with white stripe brown brown and white stripe brown and two white strpes black there are variations depending on which form you do but this is certainly one type
Originally there were no colored belts. That system is relatively new, less than 100 years. The karate-ka borrowed the system of Judo, which was light blue, white, brown, black, red and white and red. Each school, style and organization have developed their own systems and they vary a great deal.
The belt orders vary some from school to school. In general, the belts will go white, yellow, orange, green, blue, brown and then to black. if you reach the level after 9th black belt its red belt (top one)