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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ส.ค. 2018
- Hello everyone! Today we are going to talk about the ITF Taekwon-do Belt Order & Color Meanings. The belt system used by those of us that practice Taekwon-do, according to the teachings of General Choi Hong Hi.
White Belt - This is where everyone begins. The color white symbolizes the student’s innocence and ignorance of Taekwon-do. (A student with a white belt is classified as 10th Gup.)
White Belt with Yellow Stripe - This is the next step, and the only step that is sometimes skipped for quick-learning students. (9th Gup)
Yellow Belt - The first full color, this belt means that the student is beginning to learn and create a foundation in taekwondo. The color yellow represents the ground or earth in which the seed of knowledge has been planted and will grow.
Yellow Belt with Green Stripe
Green Belt - This belt is a milestone. The student’s taekwondo knowledge and experience is growing at a good pace now. The color green represents the plant as it sprouts and begins to grow.
Green Belt with Blue Stripe
Blue Belt - At this point, the student should have a good foundation in taekwondo and is prepared to begin learning more advanced techniques and theories. The color represents the sky toward which the plant reaches as it matures into a tree.
Blue Belt with Red Stripe
Red Belt - The red belt is a student who knows quite a bit about taekwondo, enough to be dangerous. Now, the student must learn control, a crucial skill. The color red signifies danger, warning others to stay away and reminding the student to practice control.
Red Belt with Black Stripe
Black Belt (1st degree) - This is the end of the introductory stages. On average, this rank takes 3-5 years to reach. Traditionally, only after achieving the rank of black belt, is the pupil considered to be true student of taekwondo. It is without a doubt a great mark of progress, but is far from the end. Truly, it is only the beginning. The definition of the color black is simple the opposite of the color white.
Novice Black Belt (1st-3rd degree) - This first three ranks of black belt are designated as Novice. The student should concentrate on perfecting (or at least thoroughly understanding) the basics that they have learned while also learning a good bit of new material. The student is also considered an Assistant Instructor during these ranks, addressed as Bo-Sabum.
Expert Black Belt (4th-6th degree) On average, the student has been an actively training and advancing black belt for 9-10 years before they may test for 4th degree. It is a very serious achievement, the student having been training as a black belt about twice as long as they were a colored belt. During this stage, the student should have enough understanding of taekwondo to begin pursuing theory more deeply. Many students begin to specialize as well. The student is considered an Instructor and is addressed as Sabum.
Master Black Belt (7th-8th degree) - Students who achieve this rank have probably been an active black belt for close to 30 years. They are very knowledgeable. At this point, the student is no longer allowed to compete at most tournaments. (Feel free to join me in pondering this.) There are no more formal examinations to gain rank after this point. The student is expected to pursue further knowledge about taekwondo with little or no oversight. Most masters only teach other black belts, leaving the colored belts to the lower ranks. The student is now called Sa-Hyong, or Master Instructor.
Grandmaster (9th degree) - The ultimate rank in traditional taekwondo, there are very few who have made it this far and they are considered to be the greatest experts on the art of taekwondo. The student is now called Grandmaster or Sa-Song.
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I got my yellow belt today...
Novice practitioners tend to fear black belts. To my personal experience "colorful" belts cause more injuries during training and sparring than black belts because they can't control their techniques yet.
That is absolutely true. A colour belt is more dangerous to others and to themselves as well, because they cannot control their techniques yet.
Black belts are harmless instead. As long as you don't challenge them 😁😁😁.
Fun fact in some schools of tea-kwon-do the black belt means that the belt is dirty. White meaning clean and new, once the belt is black it is dirty from all the work and sweat.
I just took my green belt exam and i killed it! X3 im so happy
Wow!!! Great job! :) Keep at it for the blue belt!
@@NoraTKD thank you ^-^
OOP for me after green u get purple but every dojo has different belt.
@@ErenYaeger845 I'm a blue belt lol youll get there champ
I'm taking red belt test right now but thanks 😊
Thank you Nora for the thorough explanation of the ITF TaeKwonDo belt order and each belt's significance. I am training for my next exam to earn my Red belt with the Black Stripe next weekend with Master Paul D'Ambrosio here in Orange County, CA and have been loving the journey. This is the 1st time that I've looked ahead to research the next belts because I've been enjoying the moment in each rank and all the intricacies it has to offer. Namaste. :-)
For my studio instead of having the stripe at the end we have it going through the whole entire belt
That is interesting! I only saw that on a black belt with a white stripe going through the middle of the entire belt (only for junior black belts 18 years below).
Same!
Meh too
I think because your wtf nora is itf same with me im itf you might be wtf
brick siblings studio that might be the whole entire reason. Yes, I’m wtf but that’s kind of the only locations around me
I just got my yellow belt today!😍☺️
Congratulations!
@@NoraTKD Thanks!!😄
I am now an orange belt as of today!
I have white right now i started for 2 weeks ago wish me luck :]
I've heard somewhere that the black color of the belt also represents enemies' fear (while red is, like You said, a warning).
I did not hear that one before, thank you! :)
My instructor always said that as a joke and also said it means danger. Never knew thats actually what it means
don't fight me i take karate
White Belt is Innocence as Tae Kwon Do training begins
Yellow belt signifies the seed that takes root.
Green Belt is the tree , the growth
Blue Belt is the direction to the sky
Red Belt signifies fear, warning the opponent to stay away.
Black Belt is the opposite to white and therefore signifies the wearers immunity to darkness or fear.
i got triple promotion in my first belt test (green strip) and i am really very happy
Fantastic job! You should be really proud of yourself! :)
@@NoraTKD thank Csiszar that really great of you replied
and please upload the tutorial on Jun gun
It is coming soon :)
Hi Nora! I enjoy your videos but this one confused me in the taekwondo club I am part of there are other belts that have a half color, not sure if that is the same as what you mentioned with the color marks. I have seen students also with the orange, purple and green belts. I am currently a yellow belt since I just started this year but I have my next belt ceremony in December for a half yellow half orange belt. What does that one mean? Also do you have a video on the do-san formation...i think that is what the new formation I need to learn is called.
Hello there :) Thank you for watching the videos! Well, that is interesting, this is the official ITF Taekwon-do belt ranking (take a look at here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Taekwon-Do_Federation). You can try and find your club here: www.taekwondoitf.org/our-members/
Maybe you are doing WTF or KTF Taekwon-do? Anyway, good luck with your belt exam! :) Here is my video detailed for Do-San, hope it helps: th-cam.com/video/pHeej4_fo48/w-d-xo.html
Still a white belt and need to earn it.but I love Taekwondo and what it stands for. .you explained this beautifully, thank you!
You are welcome Carlos! Good luck with your martial arts journey!
Hi I'm new to this channel, and thanks for uploading this video which will help me for my first taekwondo grading in a week. Love from NZ :)
Good luck with your grading! :) Let me know your progress!
Here is another video that you might find useful: th-cam.com/video/eAsMiXMm-NU/w-d-xo.html
@@NoraTKD Thought I'd comment to tell you how I went:
It went very well and I knew this would come in handy since I was asked by the master the meaning of white belt and this helped tons. Plus i watched the other video you suggested, that helped as well. I trust your advice and I'm going to continue to watch your videos as i continue my taekwondo journey :D thanks a lot.
Thank you very much for this video! It was very informative :)
You are welcome! Thank you!
I do itf and in my country every belt has a white stripe that runs through the middle for those under 16, that just symbolises that there are some extra rules in place when it comes to sparring, they also have for example blue with a red stripe, black stripe and a white stripe
Going up for my green belt/ blue stripe
Great, good luck on your exam! :)
I did ITF I’m a Black Belt,but we had Orange after Yellow and Purple after Green and before Blue and we also had Brown before Red
Thanks this explained tags a lot for me just what I wanted to know thank u
You are welcome!
Hey! I am a new subscriber and turned on all notifications! My taekwondo school does Korean Pop Music during the taekwondo demo team competitions! If you guess TaekwonMaru, you are right! We do KPop dance, KPop Songs, and taekwondo. I am currently a yellow belt and due to CoronaVirus, we can't do taekwondo belt testing! It sucks!
Thank you for subscribing! That is very interesting, I have never heard of combining those things together, must be interesting! Keep up the practice and workouts at home during these difficult times! Take care and stay safe!
I am a boosabum under Gordon Bettes in Australia.
It’s been a while since I trained and I feel guilty. I guess I need to go back to my dojan!
Also what country do you practice?!
Hello there :) I am happy to hear that you feel the need to go back to your dojang and practice Taekwon-do! I am from Budapest, Hungary!
Hi, in Poland we have 2 stripes between belts (white with 2 yellow, etc.) So we have now 15 student degrees. My son is 7yo and has 5th cup. Greets grom PL.
That is interesting! Does your son do ITF Taewon-do?
@@NoraTKD Yes, ITF. He started when he was 4. And now we're watching your channel to practice the patterns ;-)
Oh that is so nice, thank you! :) Keep practicing!
Hey Nora! :)
I’m a red belt in ITF taekwondo. You said that you have to do a test to do for white belt. Is this a new thing as I never had to do a test for white belt we were given white belts and then did the 1st test for yellow stripe. I’m Irish but living in the UK.
Hi Jason! Congrats to your red belt, keep going! 😊👊🏻yes, usually there is an exam even to earn the white belt - our master used to say that has to be earned as well, it was just given to us so we can tie our dobok with something 😅
Wow
My boy is getting his purple belt tomorrow 😎🥋
How was the exam?
@@NoraTKD very proud moment defo a good thing to get on for kids to build confidence and discipline etc 🥋💜👊
I used to do TKD where I trained it went like this White,Yellow,Senior Yellow,Orange,Senior Orange,Green,Senior Green,Purple, Senior Purple,Blue,Senior Blue,Brown,Senior Brown,Red,Senior Red and finally Black the Senior ones had black stripe running through the middle of belt. I didn’t stop going till I made it to 1st Dan black it automatically goes from Senior Red to 1st Dan Black so I’m a first Dan black belt 🥋 I had to stop at Black so I could focus on other things,but I might consider going back to it in the future
Good luck, I hope that you will go to back to martial arts :)
Got me blue tag today so happy
Congratulations🎉Keep up the good work!
I'm starting mine soon! Any tips and tricks? I never did any taekwondo when i was a kid like ever im completely blind and clueless, i need a lot of tips.
Good that you are starting Taekwon-do! I suggest that you pay attention to your master and do your best at each class. Also watch TKD related videos and practice at home. I have many helpful videos on my channel, you shall start watching the Back to Basics series :)
@@NoraTKD thank you, I should've started when i was around 8, but im 13 already.
Its fine right? Hope so, thanks for the advice and suggestions!
@@sumramen2355 Of course it is fine! Anytime is a good time to start :) You will do well and will understand more now that you are a teenager and not a kid.
Ok I got it
In some exceptional cases the rank of a honorary 10th Dan Black Belt has been awarded.
I just took my green belt 😁
Great Job!
thank you🥰
Nice smile 👍
Thank you so much for uploading this vid I’m 16 and thinking about starting this martial art but just don’t know when?
Start whenever you can! Because of the current pandemic situation, most marital art schools are closed bit you can practice at Home and Workout, so just start with that. See if there is a school where you live where you can practice safely.
@@NoraTKD Thank you.
I’ve only just started taekwondo lol. In around a month I will be getting my white belt test so I hope I will pass!!
Good luck with your Practice!
@@NoraTKD 😊
I might start taekwondo now😅😅😅
Go for it :)
nice video. and i have a blue belt now
Great job! :)
Thanks very much for information about white belt to black belt 9th Dan my name is Simon Joseph from india have a great day stay blessed stay healthy 💪 God bless you/ I'm nice filings to see your video
Thank you very much! I think you are 9th Gup right? 9th Dan is only for the Grandmasters and there is only a handful of them. Keep up the practice and you shall get there!
As I was training Taekwondo as I child there was brown belt instead of red belt. Can you explain me the difference between the different colours for the same belt?
Interesting! This is the official ITF Taekwondo Belt Order. Maybe it was not ITF Taekwon-do that you trained but WT Taekwon-do? They might have a brown belt. In Karate, there is a brown belt. Maybe for children's classes they have extra colors. I know that for children the instructors add more stripes and exam to keep them motivated.
@@NoraTKD My old Club seems to be part of the WT. The brown belt has the same rank as the red.
Brown symbolizes the bark of the tree trunk, which means that the techniques have already consolidated and the student is about to become a master.
I know children classes with extra colours from German Ju-Jutsu, which my son is training, and yes it's a nice motivation tool.
@@Mondkerz Great, thank you for clarifying the meaning of the brown belt! :)
im about to get my black belt!
That is great, good luck!
Tomorrow is my black belt test I've never failed a grading. Wish me luck.😬😬😬
Good luck! :) You will do great!
@@NoraTKD thank you it was today and I did it. Im currently celebrating with my family and wanted to thank you. I love your vids, they are great ,keep up the good work because you deserve more subs :) ♥️♥️♥️
Congratulations! You should be really proud of yourself! Great job earning your black belt - now the real work begins :D
So did I relearning some of it!!!
That is great Brian!
I started taekwondo in November of 2023 however I broke a toe while doing it. I twisted my foot in a wrong way causing my toe to crack. I was off for 2 months I came back in January of 2024 still with my white belt. Fast forward I skipped two belts I skipped yellow one and this past week I skipped green one. I now hold a green two belt. I almost gave up doing taekwondo due to my toe injury. I focused more so now then ever before I don’t see myself skipping blue one just because I was told by my grandmaster that it would require for me to perform pompsi 4 and 5 along with some spin kicks.
Oh I am sorry to hear about your setbacks! But you are practicing one of the five tenets of Taekwon-do which is Perseverance - keep going! I am so glad that you did not give up and you went back doing Taekwon-do again and you were able to do it so well that your master decided to grade you! Blue belt will be more difficult so don’t worry just take your time and do your best!
@@NoraTKD thank you and yes it was at first very discouraging and disappointing. The fact that I was able to keep back up and not give made me stronger in a sense. I do realize blue will be much more tougher. I also have my first taekwondo tournament coming up in June the 2nd I’m a bit nervous but confident at the same time if that makes any sense? I’m enjoying the journey towards getting my black belt and beyond than just getting through belt itself. I believe it’s the journey not the end goal that is the most enjoyable in life take care.
@@d3ltaking419yes the joy is in the journey😊keep up the good work!👊🏻🥋
Thanks for all the information. I enjoyed watching the video. Ps, the volume of the video is kinda low
Thank you for your feedback! I have to figure out how to fix the volume.
@@NoraTKD You are doing a great job, continue. You can use a small microphone that works with bluetooth. Good luck and happy new year :)
My dojang has gone through numerous changes to belt systems in the past. In between blue and red, now there is brown stripe blue belt, brown belt, and then red. Also we have orange as well in between yellow and green, with green stripe and orange stripes.
The reason why they changed the belt system is so they could round off the time it takes to get a black belt to 4 years.
That’s maybe karate
Well, 4 years is definitely not enough to "get" a black belt...and one has to earn it, not get it ;) This is the official ITF Taekwon-do system and order for belts, anything else is a different style.
You should look for a different Dojang, one that is ITF Certified.
Well yeah I could have gotten my black belt sooner, but I had some bumps in the road I pushed through and got my black belt,but it took nine years
Which belt do u have ?? Just curious.
3rd Dan Black belt
I’m starting taekwondo in a few days can’t wait! Any tips?
Have your dobok ready. Learn how to tie your belt. Take water and a towel with you. Pay attention to your master / instructor. And have fun :)
@@NoraTKD thank you I just been today it was so fun!
@@angieplayz6394 Wonderful! Keep up the good work!
I never knew that there was a yellow stripe belt,m red one btw(red with black stripe)
🙂
I am a first dan black belt preparing to test for second dan.
Great, good luck for your next exam! :)
I'm going for red belt tomorrow 😀😀
That is fantastic! Good luck! You will be great :)
How did your exam go?
@@NoraTKD I passed!!!
@@tomyale1119 Good job! :)
just got my green belt… I got the highest score out of everyone 😄 I don’t mean to brag I’m just really happy
Good job! :)
@@NoraTKD thanks :))
SaBumNim I'm waiting for the day you'll upload a video with the title: "I'm 9th dan now"
And I'll be the first one cheering for you.
Hahaha, that is waaaaay in the future if at all XD I am preparing for my 4th dan exam. But thank you! PS.: I am a Bosabumnim (1-3rd Dan).
@@NoraTKD I wish you the best of luck with your 4th dan exam and hope that you become a Grand Master someday while still making videos on youtube so we can communicate.
Hello. I earned a yellow belt with green strip back in 1992. If I start training again now, do I have to start as a white belt again if I train with a new teacher?
Yes, that is probably the case and best thing to do. You will have to earn your yellow belt again after 20 years.
When someone becomes a black belt in taekwondo and they want to learn karate, what belt do they start at? Do they begin as a white belt?
Hello. I started back in taekwondo and was started as an Orange Belt in September. I just tested for my Yellow Belt and passed. 🇰🇷🥋💛. My next belt will be camouflage. I’m so happy for getting back into martial arts. 🇰🇷🥋 thank you for your videos.
Just earned my Blue Belt this weekend. 🥋💙🇰🇷
Wait I have a orange belt with a black strip going through along the middle of the belt
That is probably not ITF Taekwon-do then.
🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋
Didn't it used to be that you train so much until the belt becomes black?
It was my second day today.. .
N have no belts yet😔
You will earn your belt!
waooo am a white belt holder, very innocent ehhhhh
Keep up the good work!
Taking a green belt exam soon, i should have done it a while ago but the virus messed it all up-
I know that feeling, my exam was postponed too but eventually it happened! Keep up the practice! Good luck with your exam!
Nora Csizar is there a brown belt??
There is no brown belt in ITF Taekwon-do. However, there is brown belt it other martial arts for example Karate.
@@NoraTKD okay thank you very much!
My dad made me quit taekwando RIGHT on the spot when I just got to black belt like bro it was 6 months of my legs paining from butterfly formation
I am sorry to hear that. Maybe you can ask your father to go back again once you feel better.
He agreed but it was when The club shutted down and I was frickin sad
why in my taekwondo school we had white,orange,yellow,green,blue,red,brown,purple,and black?
In your TKD school you probably do a different style than ITF Taekwon-do. Maybe you do WT Taekwondo?
Im tonna start if we came in baguio
I’m only orange belt
At the taekwondo that I go to, they have 16 belts. They added 4 new belts, which was the orange, purple, brown, and bodon, which came before black belt, and then they added advanced belts. so, in total, there are 16 belts in my taekwondo. And since I am generous, I will list all of them in order. (In replies)
White, yellow, advanced yellow, orange, advanced orange, green, advanced green, blue, advanced blue, purple, advanced purple, brown, advanced brown, red, bodon, and finally, black.
Thank you for your comment! However, it is not the official list of belts and belt order in traditional ITF Taekwon-do. There are only 5 color belts with stripes on them, so total of 10 levels / kups. Plus the black belt which can have the maximum 9 levels / dans. You must be doing some other style in the USA, there is no such thing of “adding new belts” in the traditional martial arts…and they might give out more belts in order to increase moral and retain people to stay there as reaching a certain level quickly. They might convince them to stay more at the club and pay more…especially for children, but that should not be the goal.
I have 10 Belts before first decree on my school. Current 3rd° black belt.
I am black belt in taekwondo
I'm a white belt
Im starting at sunday
Good luck :)
Ty.
Do you enjoy it
Some taekwondo have purple and brown belt
That might be the Kukkikwon or the WT style Taekwon-do
I'm a 6th dan
Is ITF and ICTF same thing
ITF is the International Taekwon-Do Federation, founded on March 22, 1966 in Seoul (south) Korea, by General Choi Hong Hi, who developed Taekwon-Do, to promote the teaching of this martial art.
I am not sure what ICTF is, when I googled it, it say the following: International Chang-Hon Taekwon-do Federation. The ICTF of Canada is a fund raising non-profit organization. Our organization supports Taekwon-do instructors and their students in a number of different ways.
The ICTF is a branch of the ITF family. Very similar to General Choi’s ITF yet some small differences such as the colour of stripes on black belt uniforms. The current President was very close to General Choi.
Itf is better than wtf
I am still a white belt
That is good, keep up the practice and you will progress to the yellow belt soon! :)
Hii nora
Where is the orange belt
There is no orange belt in the official ITF Taekwon-do belt order
I'm a senior red belt (red with black line), going for brown belt next month. I guess each school is different. We are ITF. Our ranks and order are White, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple, Red, Brown, Rec 1 Black (black w/ white line), Rec 2 Black (black w/blue line), Rec 3 Black (black w/ red line), then 1st degree Black. In order to test for another rank, you must first acquire your senior belt, which is. Color Belt with a black line.
I see, very interesting, thank you for sharing! In this video I talk about the official ITF grading/belt system, but each country/school might add some extra things to it depending on the situation.
Each school should not be different if they are ITF Certified or Authorized. If the school claim to teach ITF but alter the belt sequence it is not Certified. This doesn't mean they are not teaching you ITF or the ChanHon patterns but it just mean your instructor do not belong to any Federation and is doing his/her own thing.
I am blue belt
Great job! When will you have the next exam?
@@NoraTKD
Today and I've got a red belt-
Wow! Congratulations! :) You must have done great at your exam!
I have a black 5 degree
That is great :)
Ohh So My Red Belt Meaning Warning hmm...
I thing My First Learn Tarkwondo
White Belt Is Mean I Was A Noob Newbie 😂😂😂
Red means warning, fire, danger. The practicioner now know what he or she is doing and is ready for the black belt. White belt means that the person is innocent. They do not know any real technique yet to be considered dangerous.
@@NoraTKD I can't wait to get red belt... I just need 3 more steps to red belt (I'm at green stripe blue)
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You forgot the poom belt, black red
I mention it at 3:48 :)
There is no Black/Red in ITF Taekwon-Do
I reached black belt last year
Throgh a few years of heck-
Just kidding
But i did get black belt
I just skipped my yellow belt... so I went from white to yellow :)
Great job! So you skipped the yellow tag on the white belt and now you are yellow belt?
Umm no, I was white belt and I got a high mark so I went to green belt right away
@@karalmom5669 Great job!
Question... at which belt do we start sparring?
@@karalmom5669 Hmm, you should start sparring when your master gives you the chance and you have sparring partners. So hopefully soon :)
You’re very beautiful.
Thank you!
Nora Csiszar 😊
هل اجد عربي ؟
in the Philippines there’s no green belt but I’m a black belt.3 years actually and I always win any compitition but I always lose in sea games
I wish you could speak louder.
Your missing some belts do I think I’m in. WTF.
The title says ITF Taekwon-do Belt order (not WT)
Aight
…I’m more of a Karate guy…
u missed the 1 belt that is brown
There is no brown belt in ITF Taekwon-do
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