WILDERNESS
MARTIAL ARTS
Although the white belt is considered the lowest of ranks in martial arts, it is the most important. It signifies a person's courage and willingness to step into a new and challenging world. With out this belt no other belts become a reality.
Students learn the basic movements, body control, and principles.
The student has made the choice to press on. Your second progession, Yellow belt, is the point most students make the decision to become martial artist. To continue on with the great masters of old.
Students learn to impliment the basic skills they have already learned. Kata forms begin to get longer, body control and focus increase.
Blue belt is the students halfway point. Their understanding of the basic has increased introduction to more advanced and complex techniques continues. Students will be pushed harder and challenged more.
Leadrship roles begin at the blue belt level.
Green belt is where the student really begins to develope his or her own feel for the martial arts, their personal touch. Forms and techniques are begin to become more complex and challenging.
Students are growning and becoming stronger, mentally and physically.
Blue Belt
Halfway
Green Belt
Growing
Progess in Martial Arts is marked by the colored belts we wear.
Here are the levels of progression in Wilderness Martial Arts. Each belt represents your learning and and accomplishments with the school. We are all students and the learning never stops. Rank/belts are earned by displaying understanding of techniques, skill, knowledge, maturity, focus and determination. Students are responsible for their own learn and when Sensei Dan sees that they are ready, the student will be tested.
Purple Belt
Advancing
Brown Belt
The final step
Purple belt is the rank at which students begin to learn the use of weapons. All students will learn the basics of the katana, japanes sword. As well as learning more advance kata and techniques. Philosophy, understand, and focus are key elements here.
Knowning that it is not the instrument in your hand but your mind and spirit that are the weapon is the goal.
Brown belt is the final step to earning your Black Belt or Shodan. All the basics have been presented and studied. Weapons training continues as the student chooses their next weapon and/or focuses on the katana. Teaching and leadership have become an increasing part of the students being.
Learning Black Belt kata and advanced techniques continue and grow. Here the journey as a beginner ends and understand and deeper meaning begins.
Black Belt
The Start
Black Belt. The student has achieved a goal that only 2 in every 10,000 ever reach. This belt show dedication and determination. Through trials, pain, defeat, hardships, tears, sweat, blood, bumps and bruises, the student pressed on, to become and earn the rank that is the start of their deeper understanding of what they have accomplished.
Black belt is not something that is worn. It is something you are. It is something that can not be taken from your spirit.
It is not the end of the journey, but the beginning. Black belt is the start.