Karate!

We started Carly in Karate this week. She seems to really enjoy it and I can already see some of the attitude they are taught coming through at home...this is a good thing! Tonight she was awarded her first belt, the white belt. She should graduate belt colors every two months. In order to move up to the next belt she must earn three black stripes and one red stripe on her current belt (it's colored electrical tape they put on their belts). In the white uniform, they earn White, Gold, and Orange. Once she completes these belts she gets a blue uniform and must go through the process of earning the Green, Purple, Purple Stripe, Blue, Blue Stripe, Red, Red Stripe, Brown and Brown Stripe. After she completes all these she gets the Red Uniform and starts on her levels of Black belt degrees. (I know, it seems like a lot!)


She is in front of the red uniform instructor getting her belt. The teachers wear black uniforms.