In taekwondo how long do you usually have to hold each belt for before advancing on each rank?

hi im just a little confused i am thinking of taking tae kwon do training my goal is to some day possiblly achive a black belt i know it will take alot of hard work and determination but im just trying to get a rough figure of how long how-many years will i have to be in tae kwon do to do so and how often it takes to move from belt rank to belt rank like white to yellow and so on.|||Different Tae Kwon Do schools will be set-up different ways. Even at the school that I went to for 7 years, they once changed the belt system. But, this is how is basically runs...





You test every 4 months (3 times a year). Sometimes you test for a single stripe. It should be...





Day one, start at white belt.





4 months later, test for yellow belt.





4 months later, test for green stripe.





4 months later, test for green belt.





4 months later, test for purple stripe.





4 months later, test for purple belt.





4 months later, test for blue stripe.





4 months later, test for blue belt.





4 months later, test for brown stripe.





4 months later, test for brown belt.





4 months later, test for FIRST black stripe.





4 months later, test for SECOND black stripe.





4 months later, test for 1st dan black belt.





That is a total of 4 years if you train straight through.





Some schools start their students as a %26quot;no belt%26quot;, which is pretty lame. A white belt is meaningless, so that%26#039;s where folks should start. You go straight from white to yellow...but from yellow onward, you have to earn a %26quot;stripe%26quot; (piece of tape) for your belt between testing for the next belt. At brown belt, you have to earn 2 stripes...so that means you will be wearing a brown belt for a year before you graduate to black belt.





But again, every school is different. Be sure to ask them how often they test and how the ranks progress. Bear in mind, for you it%26#039;s all about learning the martial arts. For SOME (make that many) martial arts studios, it%26#039;s all about making money.|||It will take you about 4 -5 years to get to First Dan (black belt) so you might be looking at around 3 to 5 months between each grading. That is if you are training around 3 times a week, it will be longer if you train less.





But belts don%26#039;t help you in a fight or training only you can do that, So don%26#039;t worry to much about getting your black belt and worry more about doing the best you can.|||Belts ain%26#039; t nuthin%26#039;. Homie, it%26#039; s the skills you learn and remember that helps you in battle, for example, if you are white belt that practice daily, and fight a blue belt student that rarely even practices, chances are the white belt student would win as the blue belt student may look down on him %26amp; kinda fight easy.... LOL!





It depends on your personal strengh, agility, reflex, and muscle toughness more actually, as skills are just a guide on how to use it, wen%26#039; you battle a skinny black belt lil master wen%26#039; you are a muscular yellow belt, you can pown his AZZ!





You just got to work out frequently in your spare times than dreamin%26#039; about the next belt you can get. As to my OLD experience, the test it really easy, it usually isn%26#039; t even worth to BE a test, all you g2 do is smack a few (SOFTEN) wood? Man in Kung- Fu you g2 break bricks n%26#039; concrete...Compare dat! LOL!





Perhaps take a look at some videos n%26#039; youtube that shows you techniques from other martial arts, as well as the ones your learnin%26#039;. Then you combine them and add it to your own moves.





The only bad thing is that you don%26#039; t learn to kill in one hit etc. or techniques concernin%26#039; pressure points etc.


Belts are just to prove yourself, but it%26#039; s not realistic or useful in real combat. Just practice, as it makes perfect...- ^^





Good Luck on ye%26#039; trainin%26#039; %26amp; HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!- XD- LO0O0O0L!|||Hmm, I think different schools use different systems. I got stripes on my belt, when I had so many, I moved up. White to yellow takes a month or so, and the higher you get the longer it takes. I think 2 to 3 years to get from white to black if you go on a weekly basis.|||It took me about six months to get from belt to belt before I quit taekwondo.