A white belt
sorry to tell you but jb doesn't do karate. whoever told you this was lying but if he had a belt, it would probably be a yellow
It will depend on the school or style of karate. In some styles, a purple belt is one of the levels on the way to black belt. My particular style of Shorin Ryu does not have a purple belt. It is not a common color.
black. it just has the roman # symbol
It will depend on the school or style of karate. In some styles, red belt is one of the levels on the way to black belt. In the Okinawan styles, a red belt indicates someone at the 9th or 10th Dan level, a Grandmaster.
The belt in karate is called an obi. The color scheme for promotions is based on the judo system developed in Japan. The belts provide a visible means for an instructor to tell what level the student is at and what they are learning.
The black stripe means that you have graduated to the senior belt of that color. For example: if you were yellow belt your next belt would be a senior yellow belt.
the next kaigan karate belt after white is orange
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
'Kyu' are the ranks for color belts in karate. There are generally 10 kyu belts. White is the 10th kyu and brown belt the 1st kyu.
Our school added an orange belt and a gold belt between white and yellow to encourage people to stick with karate, especially kids, by attaining a new belt color because the amount of information between white and yellow can be daunting to new students. Traditionally, however, in our style (Shuri-Ryu) there is not.
You don't master karate at brown belt. You don't normally ever master karate. The best thing to do is to practice often and hard.