Traditional we wear a Gi in Jiu-Jitsu which is held together by a belt. The Jiu-Jitsu Gi is very much the same than the Judo Gi. Find out about it on Wikipedia.org/wiki/Judogi
The belt holds the jacket of the Gi together and comes in different colours. At Ichinen Bridport we use the basic traditional variations of colours. White for the beginner, followed with each grading by yellow, orange, green, blue and the highest student belt/grading would be brown. Master belts are black and if there is a 10th Dan Master grade, the belt would be white and light pink. This indicates the circle; back to white...
Well, and for the beginner one of the hurdles to take is to bind this belt in the right way. There are only a few difficult tasks to learn in Jiu-Jitsu. First is, go through this door... and join the training! Second are the rolls and falls. That takes some time to learn . And third it's how to bind the belt. But don't worry, you will learn it and once manage to do the knot and you attend regular to the training, you do it a lot and you'll never forget it.
Why I write about this today? Sometimes I bring a little boy to his Taekwondo training and he wears already his uniform. And as his belt was done wrong, I helped him to correct it and thought, yes, that's nothing new. Many students struggle with belt binding ... so look at the graphic above or come along. Jiu-Jitsu in Bridport every Thursday at 7.00 and 8.45 pm. See you there!
