You usually have to cut your nails and buy a uniform, but yes - I found this headline confusing too. "Yellow belt" is pretty standard, but not universally so. B

You usually have to cut your nails and buy a uniform, but yes - I found this headline confusing too. "Yellow belt" is pretty standard, but not universally so. BJJ goes straight to blue, but after much longer than Karate/Judo takes to get to yellow. The most prolific borrower of martial arts terminology in tech, the "six sigma" folks, call their second level "yellow belt" too.