Yeti Tae Kwon Do at the Yorkton Martial Arts Centre were finally able to do belt testing recently, after COVID-19 caused a postponement from a March testing date.
Among those earning belt progression was Michaela Miller 9th Gup Yellow Stripe.
Gup is a Korean word, meaning student or junior. So everyone is a student until they reach black belt, and then they are called Dan, meaning senior or teacher.
A stripe indicates a certain level achieved within a belt level.
Other students of the club, which holds classes at the Yorkton Martial Arts Centre are; Sam Pamplona 5th Gup blue stripe, Arjun Verma 7th Gup green stripe, Master Forster 6th Dan Black, Alicia Kozie 9th Gup Yellow stripe, Koen Zaparaniuk Jr Red stripe, Azzylan Vance J9 black stripe, Liam Hutchings Jr green stripe, Sam Brown 9th Gup, Daxton Kozie J9 black stripe, Callie Hutchings 9th Gup yellow stripe.
Belts begin at white, yellow, green, blue, red, and black.
When the belt system was first invented, they had to dye the belts by hand, with the colours they had available. You can paint or dye a darker colour over a lighter one, with no hue loss to your darker colour. The same is not true for the reverse - you cannot paint/dye a light colour over a dark colour. The result will be muddied and dark. This is why belts get progressively darker at each rank.
Stripes break each colour into two segments. It’s easy to think of it like ‘semester one’ and ‘semester two’.
