Што робіць ранг чорнага пояса Mean?

Я выдаткаваў шмат часу на вывучэнне розных рангавых сістэм. Здаецца, сістэма рангаў - гэта сучасная канцэпцыя, распачатая доктарам. Джыгара Кано, выхавальнік, хто хацеў сістэму ацэнак для асобных студэнтаў.

На працягу наступнага стагоддзя, numerous styles adopted the belt rank system but the only commonality was the belt systems meant what the creator decided it meant. The meaning also evolved through the years as more teachers began to spread the art and award belts.

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Доктар. Kano and Kyuzo Mifune Training from the Public Domain

Prior to Dr. Кано, a head instructor, commonly called a master, issued students he felt were qualified to teach the art a certificate of professorship. The new professor would then find his own students to teach.

Доктар. Kano was a member of the Japanese Olympic Committee and observed that swimmers wore a sash to denote skill level. It is said he adopted the rank system based on this observation although I have my doubts.

Supposedly, the most skilled swimmer wore a black sash but as most of these stories go, it is difficult to sort fact from fiction. Доктар. Kano was on the Olympic committee later in life, while early pictures of Kodokan training seems to indicate they were using colored belts to denote rank prior to Dr. Kano joining the Olympic Committee. Доктар. Kano used two types of rank: ungraded ranks (below black belt) and graded ranks(black belt). Most of the other Japanese martial arts soon followed suit.

In Brazil, the Gracies, who learned a more ground focused form of Judo from Mitsuyo Maeda, an early member of the Kodokan. The Gracies developed a different system of belts. Their original system had three belts. All students, no matter how good, were white belts unless they were instructors in training. Instructors in training wore light blue belts and instructors wore dark blue belts. Or it is what we are often told. Аднак, Gracie Academy pictures prior to 1967 seem to show many of the instructors wearing black belts. Whether it was dark blue or black, students couldn’t achieve the top BJJ ranks unless they were teachers.

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Пазней, Helio Gracie would change the belt system to allow people to get black belt without being instructors but he used different black belts to differentiate between an instructor and a non-instructor. Сёння, most Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu promotions are based on skill and often competitive record as opposed to ability to teach. Professor Pedro Valente discusses the original system in this excellent video.

Karate and Taekwondo also adapted the belt system. Generally, you can learn striking arts more quickly than grappling arts. Karate and TKD promotions came more quickly. It is still not unheard of for students training every day in Japan and Korea to earn a black belt in a year. In America, it is pretty unheard of to earn a black belt in less than 4 гадоў.

American martial artists influenced the belt system in a couple of significant ways. Першы, the original belt systems only had a few colored or below black belts. Аднак, many American did not have the patience to wait at a belt rank for a couple of years, so the early martial arts instructors added extra belts, so the students would stay interested in their next promotion.

Другі, Americans elevated the black belt to where most people think it is an expert rank. In most systems, you are not considered a full instructor until you reach 4th Degree Black Belt but the black belt has become the symbol of perseverance and achievement within your school.

In short, the meaning of a black belt is relative to your school and curriculum.

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