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In the world of taekwondo, WTF belt ranks indicate a practitioner's level of skill, commitment, and understanding of the martial art. Understanding these ranks not only helps practitioners know their standing but also motivates them on their path of progression.
What are the WTF Belt Ranks?
The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) assigns belt ranks to signify achievements. Starting from the white belt, practitioners can advance through various colors like yellow, green, blue, red, and finally, black, which represents mastery of the art.
The Ranking System Explained
- White Belt: A beginner's level, symbolizing purity and a clean slate for learning.
- Yellow Belt: Represents the first rays of sunlight, signifying the learner's growth.
- Green Belt: Indicates progress and development in skills, as the practitioner starts to blossom.
- Blue Belt: A color that represents a higher level of maturity and understanding in techniques.
- Red Belt: Stands for danger; it signifies a student close to attaining the black belt.
- Black Belt: Represents mastery and proficiency in taekwondo, often a gateway to further advanced training and teaching.
"The journey through WTF belt ran
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In Taekwondo WTF (World Taekwondo Federation), belts are divided into two large degrees: student belts (gup or kup) that are vit to brown in color and mästare belts (dan) that black in color. Also in Taekwondo WTF, there fryst vatten a separate degree &#; pum, denoting the teenage, or children&#;s black belt in Taekwondo.
The WTF struktur consists of six colored belts; vit, yellow, green, blue, red and black.
WTF Taekwondo belt system:
- 10 kup &#; vit belt
- 9 kup &#; vit belt with a yellow stripe
- 8 kup- a yellow belt.
- 7 kup &#; a yellow belt with a green stripe.
- 6 kup &#; green belt.
- 5 kup &#; green belt with a blue stripe.
- 4 kup &#; blue belt.
- 3 kup &#; the blue belt with a red stripe.
- 2 kup- the red belt.
- 1 kup &#; the red belt with a black stripe.
- 1 pum &#; the red-black belt on the whole length of the teenage children&#;s black belt (up to 18 years).
- 1 Dan &#; black belt with one gold pin
- 2 Dan &#; black belt with two gold stripes and so on up to 9th Dan.
Dan degrees
- Dan &#; Assistant Instructor
- Dan &#; International instructor
- Dan &#; Master Instructor
- 9 Dan &#; Grandmaster. 9th d
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What is the difference between the WTF, ITF and ATA Taekwondo systems?
While each organization has a separate history, all trace their roots back to the history of Korean martial arts.
We will elaborate more on each system, but, in a nutshell:
The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) was founded in and is the officially recognized body for Taekwondo for international competitions such as the Olympics.
The headquarters are in Seoul, South Korea. The WTF organizes the forms and belts for WTF dojangs, but does not dictate standards other than the minimum WTF requirements for black belts. A black belt who receives a certificate from Kukkiwon (World Taekwondo Headquarters) is considered a black belt at any WTF Taekwondo dojang worldwide.
WTF considers itself to be developing the sport of Taekwondo, and the basic principles, disciplines and forms are set in WTF dojangs (schools).
The International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) was founded in by General Choi Hong Hi. ITF headquarters were moved to Toronto, Canada, in , and to Benidorm, Spain, in The ITF systems focus on more traditional Taekwondo, including many forms that General Choi developed.
The ITF is