How To Understand Hapkido Belts

In Hapkido, there are five color belts and black belts - whites, yellow, green, blue and red and black belts. Actually, this concept is based on an oriental concept and five elements theory - five elements theory including fire, water, and tree and earth and mineral. So, it's actually based on this concept.

But nowadays, we actually see, by color, the meaning. The white actually stands for beginning and rebirth; be reborn. Yellow is actually ground, so you are preparing for something, to produce something, and green stands for sprouts.

Actually, from the ground, you can see something grow. So by the time you get to green belt, you can see your techniques getting more mature. The next belt is blue.

And blue originally comes from water, so it stands for young and dynamic. So, you can see your techniques are getting more mature. Red stands for passion and challenge.

And after those colors of belts, you can get black belts. Black belts mean complete and finishing. So after you get black belts, you become more modest and you can actually sharpen your techniques.

And to sum up, belts, we have five colors in Hapkido and black belt, white, yellow, green, blue, red and black. .