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The History of this belt comes from the
Tracy's Kenpo Karate home page
This page contains a brief history of the Blue Belt that dates to 1962, when the Tracy brothers introduced an intermediate Kenpo Karate rank between one brown tip and two brown tips, to make Gokyu the third earned rank in Kenpo.
The Tracy brothers introduced Blue Belt to the martial arts in 1962, along with the Orange, Purple, and Green Belt, and made Gokyu the third earned rank in kenpo karate. It became the 4th earned rank in Kenpo Karate when Yellow Belt was introduced in 1966 . Blue Belt was created as an intermediate belt rank between what had previously been one brown tip and two brown tips on the white belt. The old Gokyu, which was one brown tip had required 63 techniques, and the new Purple belt required 80 techniques, 40 for Orange Belt and 40 for Purple. In additionally each techniques had an average of 2 variations. The number of techniques for each belt above Yellow, has been established at 30 + variations and forms. Blue Belt now requires a total of 184 techniques and variations.
Blue Belt had much to do with Ed Parker adopting the Tracy colored belt ranking in 1965, along with the Tracy belt requirements, as Tracy Blue Belts who visited Ed Parker's schools in the Los Angeles area were clearly better trained than most of his brown belts.
As Tracy's began to dominate the martial arts, Ed Parker would often award black belts to Tracy Blue Belts, and this became one of the factors in the eventual division between Tracy's and Ed Parker. The techniques for Blue Belt are the basics for beginning kenpo, and are used as an exercise for physical conditioning. Like Orange Belt and Purple Belt, many of the moves have been adopted by aerobics.
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