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Belts also help an instructor properly manage a training class. From the front of a class, an instructor may quickly evaluate the training levels of the entire class by viewing the belts the students are wearing. An instructor may determine the following from the belts the students are wearing:

• Overall skill level of the class, using the number of yellow belts, green belts, blue belts, etc.

• Approximate skill level of each student.

• Approximate physical fitness level of each student.

• Approximate number of months/years each student has been training.

• Approximate level of commitment of each student.

• What patterns, step-sparring sequences, and techniques each student knows.

• What patterns, step-sparring sequences, and techniques each student needs to learn.

• Whether a student is allowed to free spar.

• Approximate sparring ability of each student.

An instructor may glean all this information from the belts students are wearing, whether it is in the instructor's own class or in a class with which the instructor is unfamiliar. Therefore, a visiting instructor knows how to manage a class of students he or she has never seen before.

Criticism of Belt System

Some criticize the belt rank system for a variety of reasons, most of which relate to the critic's lack of rank achievement or of any other status in society. Those who cannot reach the level others have reached by their own personal achievement tend to criticize and berate achievers in an effort to belittle their achievements in an effort to increase their own status. Rank is used and has been used for millenniums throughout all societies of the world. When you need law enforcement advice, you know that a police sergeant has more knowledge and experience than a police corporal. When a soldier enters a room, he or she may immediately know the status of others in the room by their rank. When you enter a large corporation, you know the ones with the highest rank are those in offices on the highest floors. High rank is difficult to achieve in any endeavor. It takes a lot of hard work, time, and perseverance. You may have to do things you do not like to do or want to do, and act as if you enjoy it. Some would like to have rank, but they do not have what it takes to achieve it, so they criticize the ones who do.

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