We've had a spate of yellow belt gradings recently. This is not because we are freely and easily handing out yellow belts but just that many of our beginners have reached a level where they deserve to be graded.
We are pretty strict about grading. I always make sure our players really know the techniques in the yellow belt syllabus very well before I promote them.
There's no point promoting people who just have a cursory understanding of the techniques and can't demonstrate them very well. My standard is that they must be able to guide a brand new beginner in these techniques.
That may be a high bar but I think it's what it should be. If a person wearing a yellow belt is not able to properly and adequately teaching a beginner how to do yellow belt techniques, they shouldn't be a yellow belt.
A yellow belt is the lowest color in the colored belt series yet, it's the most important in a way. A friend from Canada once told me that the two most important belts in a judoka's career is yellow belt and black belt.
The yellow belt because it's your first ever belt promotion. The black belt... well, it's obvious why that one is important. But yeah, the yellow belt is significant.
In time, we will have a lot of high ranking colored belts and quite a few black belts in our club. But they will only get their promotions if they know their techniques well. You can be assured of that.
We are pretty strict about grading. I always make sure our players really know the techniques in the yellow belt syllabus very well before I promote them.
There's no point promoting people who just have a cursory understanding of the techniques and can't demonstrate them very well. My standard is that they must be able to guide a brand new beginner in these techniques.
That may be a high bar but I think it's what it should be. If a person wearing a yellow belt is not able to properly and adequately teaching a beginner how to do yellow belt techniques, they shouldn't be a yellow belt.
A yellow belt is the lowest color in the colored belt series yet, it's the most important in a way. A friend from Canada once told me that the two most important belts in a judoka's career is yellow belt and black belt.
The yellow belt because it's your first ever belt promotion. The black belt... well, it's obvious why that one is important. But yeah, the yellow belt is significant.
In time, we will have a lot of high ranking colored belts and quite a few black belts in our club. But they will only get their promotions if they know their techniques well. You can be assured of that.
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