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Titanic
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Hi, I am thinking about starting kickboxing but I was just wondering...how do you get from one belt color to the other??  |
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ramcalgary
Blue Belt
Joined: 09 Dec 2001
Posts: 347
Location: Calgary Canada
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2002 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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Most kickboxing schools do not use the belt system. The ranking system is not used. It iis up to the instructors to tell you what level you are at. It is a sport not an art.
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kicker
Black Belt
Joined: 17 Sep 2001
Posts: 3649
Location: Canada!!!! (The 5th biggest City)
Styles: kickboxing, muay thai, tennis, lots more.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2002 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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well We do have belt teating and you have to go at a time that the instructure says so that you can test for the next belt 
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Prodigy-Child
Green Belt
Joined: 02 Jul 2001
Posts: 458
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2002 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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| alot of kickboxing schools do not use ranking systems...........its better that way i feel! |
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striking_cobra
Orange Belt
Joined: 21 Apr 2002
Posts: 187
Location: United States
Styles: kung ling, kung fu
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| Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| that's interesting i didn't know kickboxing didn't use belts...are thai boxers ranked by a "belt" type system? |
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WhiteShark
Orange Belt
Joined: 22 Apr 2002
Posts: 133
Location: EastCoast USA
Styles: Shidokan, Muay Thai, Judo
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| Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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My Muay Thai school does NOT use belts. Interestingly tho we DO use armbands. There are 5 levels then instructor. No Gi so no belt:)
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Arts_not_Brutality
White Belt
Joined: 22 Apr 2002
Posts: 16
Location: MidWest
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2002 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Kicker, what are the requirments for your advancement for each belt? |
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kicker
Black Belt
Joined: 17 Sep 2001
Posts: 3649
Location: Canada!!!! (The 5th biggest City)
Styles: kickboxing, muay thai, tennis, lots more.
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Well Brutality, to tell you the truth I havent memorized them and not exactly sure what you have to know for each one to go to the next belt.
Well it depends on what your doing like boxing or Muay Thai or Kickboxing. Plus on your trainer he is the one that well let you pass and he probably well have a chart or something in which he is looking for what you have to know. You could ask your trainer for what you have to know to pass each test
Oh if you want me to tell you a breif description of each i think i could.
But here is our ranking system
white belt
white/yellow belt
yellow belt
yellow/green belt
green belt
green/blue belt
blue belt
blue/brown belt
brown belt
brown/black belt
black belt.
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ad
Brown Belt
Joined: 22 Nov 2001
Posts: 672
Location: Birmingham, England
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| Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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. It is a sport not an art.
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i completely disagree, i believe kickboxing is a martial art, just like boxing or wrestling for that matter, kickboxing aids you and helps you in self defense, thus making it a martial ART
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Jack
Black Belt
Joined: 22 Jun 2001
Posts: 1591
Location: England
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Titanic - to sum it up, a lot of boxing/kickboxing/muay thai schools will not operate by a belt system, but some will. You will find after a while studying that belts do not matter anyway, and what does matter is your own skill and experience.
Ad, I find classifying something as a martial art or not can be more tricky than expected. The word martial means combat or war. Thus training in any fighting system is training in a martial style. However, the meaning of art can be confused - is the art simply in practicing and perfecting technique, or must a style have certain aspects to be considered an 'art'?
Personally, I think Kickboxing can qualify as a martial art, it revolves largely around sport but also self defence - its combat orientated and if you consider it an art or not is up to the person.
All very confusing. 
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