Club Information & FAQs

What belts are there?

There are 6 belts:

  1. White (everyone is automatically white belt to begin with)
  2. Yellow
  3. Green
  4. Blue
  5. Red
  6. Black

In between each belt there is a 'tag' signifying a halfway point between 2 belts. Each grade is called a kup (from 10 to 1 in descending order) up to black belt:

..and so on up to 1st kup (red belt with black tag).

When black belt is reached each grade is called a dan, with a new black belt being 1st dan. Black belt grades go up to 9th dan, though this level is very seldom achieved by anyone.