In every school I've been to, you do. It's a white belt. EVERYONE starts a white belt and works up. Even if you don't have a uniform or "gi" with the belt, you technically are still a white belt.
A white belt
it is white and you wear a belt the colors vary depending on your rank the highest is a black belt.
This question depends on the style of karate, some styles do have a different ranking and colour coding system. Junior rank, after green is purple Senior rank, after green comes brown.
There can be alot of consequences in Karate if you aren't prepared or aware. Some include death, pain, being hit, getting hurt, losing your belt rank and/or more.
SHO Dan, Ni Dan, etc. meaning 1st degree black belt, second degree black belt, in Japanese Martial arts Judo and Karate
Each style of karate sets its own rules and promotions. In some styles, dark blue is the highest rank. A style could set the brown belt as the highest, but most use the black belt. In traditional karate, the highest possible belt is red.
That depends entirely on the school and style. They can vary greatly in the colors and designs used. It would be better to ask what Kyu or Gup the students are. The lower the number, the higher the rank. Even then it can be difficult to determine, particularly if one school has 12 ranks and the other only six.
Train at a school, learn the skills, and test for the rank. Study and practice consistently over time. It takes 3 to 5 years to achieve a black belt in most schools.
Japanese Judo was the first martial art to introduce the colored belt ranking system as a visible indication of the students progress. The colored belt ranking system soon was adapted for Karate, and was first used by Sensei Gichin Funakoshi and his Shotokan Karate schools. Click here to learn about the Goju-Ryu Karate belt ranking system. As students pass through the ranks taking grading examinations they are awarded with different colored belts. The color order and which colors are used varies from school to school, as does the relationship between belt color and rank (= Kyu
'Kup' are the ranks for the color belts under the rank of black belt in Korean martial arts. There are generally 10 to 12 kup levels. White is the lowest kup and brown belt is usually 1st kup.
the highest rank in karate
No, in taekwondo, the red belt is not the same rank as a black belt. Depending on your school, it is either one or two steps below the black belt. Some schools use a belt that is half red and half black to designate a black belt who is under age. This is called a poom.In taekwondo, the red belt is commonly associated with the 2nd grade, that is, the level just before black belt. All taekwondo schools have their own colored belt systems, so some schools might use a brown belt instead of a red belt. Some schools might use both a brown belt and a red belt.This differs from the use of the red belt in karate. In karate, the red belt represents the tenth degree black belt.