What are the gradings in karate?
A grading is a test you take to achieve a higher rank. When you start karate, you are a white belt (10th Kyu). If you are successful in your first grading, you become a yellow belt (9th Kyu). There are 10 colour-belt (Kyu) grades and a further 10 black belt (Dan) grades.
What does GKR Karate mean?
Go-Kan-Ryu
GKR stands for ‘Go-Kan-Ryu’. Each syllable in this name has a separate meaning in Japanese. When Kancho Robert Sullivan founded this name for our club in the mid 80’s, his intention was for it to mean the following: Go = hard; Kan = total or complete; Ryu = school or system.
What does 8th Kyu mean?
Yellow Belt (8th Kyu): Your First Grade The first full grade a student can achieve is an Yellow Belt (8th Kyu). This can be attempted after a minimum of 12 classes and involves taking part in a grading (along with other White belt students) and being assessed on your White Belt Curriculum techniques.
What is 4th kyu in karate?
Green Belt – (6th KYU) Purple Belt – (5th KYU) Purple & White Belt – (4th KYU) Brown Belt – (3rd KYU)
How many dan gradings are there for black belts?
In English, the different levels of black belt are called 1st dan, 2nd dan, 3rd dan, etc. (Or in Korean: il dan, ee dan, sam dan, etc.) Unlike some martial arts, in some styles of Taekwondo achieving one’s first black belt (1st dan) is not intended to connote that one is now an “expert” in taekwondo.
Who owns GKR karate?
Kancho Robert Sullivan
Kancho Robert Sullivan is the Founder of Go-Kan-Ryu Karate (GKR). Kancho Robert is an 8th Dan Black Belt, and has been training in and teaching karate since 1964.
What does 6th Kyu mean?
beginner
Ranging in descending order, “kyū” (級: class, rank, rank) shows the evolution from white belt (6th kyu = beginner usually) until the brown belt (1st kyu). These ranks are awarded to students by the teacher, after a test in the dojo.
What does 5th dan mean?
this is sometimes a blackbelt with no dan stripe or a bicolor black/white belt) 1st – 5th dan: Black Belt (shodan, nidan, sandan, yodan, godan) 6th – 10th dan: “Black Belt” that is sometimes bicolored or with additional stripes often red, white, or gold.