User talk:Guaran

"==Notes==

This note was disputed -- see Talk:Shotokan (See the Change History if necessary: from the end of Feb. through the beginning of Apr. 2006 -- discussion page content might be removed to reduce its size).

1. This transliteration is a homonym with a different meaning elsewhere of "short sword" (see shoto). The Kanji from Funakoshi's original text (of [1]), however, has no similarity. The Kanji for shoto, "pine waves", is (松涛). The first character is (松), which means pine tree. The second character (涛) is a Kanji variant of (濤), which means large wave. The Kanji for shoto, short sword, is (小刀). The first character is (小), meaning small, and the second character is (刀), meaning blade. " Guaran 02:05, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

"==Notes==

This note was disputed; the two competing versions are shown below -- see Talk:Shotokan (See the Change History if necessary: from the end of Feb. through the beginning of Apr. 2006 -- discussion page content might be removed to reduce its size).

1. This transliteration is a homonym with a different meaning elsewhere of "short sword" (see shoto). The Kanji from Funakoshi's original text (of [1]), however, has no similarity. The Kanji for shoto, "pine waves", is (松涛). The first character is (松), which means pine tree. The second character (涛) is a Kanji variant of (濤), which means large wave. The Kanji for shoto, short sword, is (小刀). The first character is (小), meaning small, and the second character is (刀), meaning blade.

1. Shoto is also a homonym of Shoto." Guaran 15:00, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

(Belt Colors:) It is not true that this system was adopted in order to give Western students a sense of progression over time.

"==Belt Colours== Originally, Karate had only 3 obi (belt) colours. White, Brown and Black, with several ranks of each. Here is the original belt system, still used by Shotokan Karate of America :


 * Ungraded - white
 * 8th kyu ~ 4th kyu - white
 * 3rd kyu ~ 1st kyu - brown
 * 1st dan and above - black

As karate became more widespread, a decision was made by some karate organizations to borrow the coloured belt system from Judo, along with the Judoka's uniform, the Gi. It is not true that this system was adopted in order to give Western students a sense of progression over time.

One example is given below, but these vary among organizations.

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 * Ungraded - white
 * 9th kyu - blue
 * 8th kyu - yellow
 * 7th kyu - orange
 * 6th kyu - green
 * 5th kyu - purple
 * 4th kyu - purple with white stripe
 * 3rd kyu - brown with white stripe
 * 2nd kyu - brown with double stripes
 * 1st dan ~ 8th dan - black
 * 9th dan ~ 10th dan - red