BELT COLOR STAGES
My WHITE EAGLE system in its progress from white to red represents the above three stages of learning with applications to the cycle of life and natures seasons. Each color in the belt system stands for a specific stage of development and achievement. When the student is born he is a seed that must sprout, through time the student reaches maturity, grows old, dies, and leaves behind the seeds of new student (birth).
WHITE (Dleit)-White is the winter snow that covers the dormant seed in the beginning of the cycle of life.
YELLOW (Tl'áatl')-Yellow is the warmth of the sun as it melts the snow and heats the seed.
ORANGE (Shéix'w)-Orange is new growth of the seed in spring.
BLUE (X'éishx'w)-Blue is the haze of heat the beats upon the new growth as it reveals itself to nature.
GREEN (S'oow)-Green is the development of the new growth into the youth of summer.
BROWN (S'agwáat) Brown is the plant which curtails its growth and prepares to flower in the late summer. This stage is power, stability, agility, life, energy, attention, control and wisdom. The stability of mind and body. The student’s power and techniques begin to mature, bloom and ripen.
BLACK (T'ooch')-Black is the plant as it grows old in the fall having given of itself to future seeds of growth as they plant themselves in soil for winter. This stage is respect, perseverance, and honor.
RED (X'aan)-Red is the purging of blood through life as mastery, calmness, dignity and sincerity form as the final stage of life unfolds the truth of the life cycle and the next begins. In the end, we see the finishing of that which is old and the newness of the path that leads through the ranks of the higher belts to true mastery of the new seeds that have been planted.
CLAN CUNNINGHAM JU-JITSU ACADEMY
WHITE EAGLE SCHOOL
OF MARTIAL ARTS
