Judo in Canada Canada there are six "kyū" grades for seniors (people 16 years of age or older), eleven "kyū" grades for juniors (people under the age of 16), and ten "dan" grades that are restricted to seniors. Both senior and junior students begin as white belts ("rokkyū") and progress with promotion through yellow, orange, green, and blue, to brown belt ("ikkyū"). Half-grades for juniors were introduced in 2010 and are represented by belts that combine the colours of the previous grade and the next grade (a white and yellow belt, for example, represents a half-grade between "rokkyū" and "gokyū", which the grading
Judo in Canada at the University of Ottawa, "Influences on the development of beliefs of Canadian expert judo coaches and their impact on action" (1998), describes the beliefs of Canadian Judo coaches and how these beliefs were represented in their actions during training. And finally, Michelle Rogers' MA thesis in Anthropology at the University of Victoria, "Twentieth Century Travels: Tales of a Canadian Judoka" (2005), examines the life of her father, Olympian Doug Rogers, and uses his story as a case study of how large-scale global processes can influence the life of an individual. Judo has not received widespread attention in Canadian television