Ranked Belts

Ranked belts are a color-based ranking system used in martial arts to signify a student’s progression, proficiency, and mastery, with the belt color indicating a specific level of expertise. Students begin at a lower rank, typically white, and advance through various colored belts, with black being the highest rank in most systems. The specific colors and their order vary between different martial arts and styles, though common colors include white, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown, and black.