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What is the difference between a double and single wrap karate belt?

And does anyone know where I can buy a Gray Belt?

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1. The difference in the double wrap and single wrap belt is this. There are so many children studying that martial arts these days. Young children that are to young, or immature to learn to correctly tie what you refer to as a double wrap belt. So companies developed a new belt that requires not brains or leaning to wear. It just is placed around the body once and sticks together with Velcro. The term double wrapped belt was never used to refer to martial arts belts until these new belts came out. Personally i think that anyone that can't learn to tie their belt should not be learning the martial arts. If someone is to immature or to lazy to lean how to tie their belt, then how are they possible going to learn real martial arts. To learn real martial arts takes many years of dedicated of training, and concentration. Just my opinion! EDIT: I certainly would not have much respect for any one of high rank that would wear a belt that they were to lazy to learn to tie their belt ....... I'm not aware of any place that sells a gray belt. You might have to dye one, if you really need one. Never heard of any style using one. ************** EDIT nwohioguy I'm with you. I often intentionally take notice of any martial artists that I meet that I don't know. Many high ranked black belts don't know how to tie their belts. That is a dead give away that they are not really black belts. No one above white belt has an excuse for not knowing how to correctly tie their belt. Any that do must be lazy, training in a McDojo, or Fakes pretending to be real martial artists.
2. Single wrap is more like a belt, it goes around your body once. Double wrap belts you wrap around twice and then tie. You can buys a gray belt at centurymartialarts.com - they are a big name in martial arts supply. Most people prefer the double wrap belts - they are more expensive because they are longer but more commonly used. The link below will take you to the site to order your belt, hope this helps and good luck!
3. Pugpaws gave you a great answer but to add to this I would have to say that anyone who uses a single wrap belt is a joke...honestly. Have they became so lazy that they no longer can tie their belt accordingly? I would have to agree that anyone who cannot tie their belt correctly would not be taken to seriously in my dojo...or at most of the events I attend (we actually look to see if you tie correctly). In terms of the grey belt...why do you want one? There is no such thing? I think you are wanting to try and get a belt that looks like my old black belt I still wear. There is very little black thread left on it and it is almost entirely grey...but I have worn this belt since I earned it in 1987. Most of my Sensei belts are worse off than mine...but it comes from hard work, determination, training and many years of real martial arts practice. Showing up wearing a grey belt that looks fake at a real dojo or event will lead you into some serious problems.
4. Pugpaws and nwohioguy answered you main question. To answer your other here are two links: http://www.centurymartialarts.com/Martial_Arts_Belts/Solid.aspx and http://shopping.yahoo.com/s:Martial%20Arts:4461-Martial%20Arts%20Type=Karate:4483-Equipment%20&%20Gear=Martial%20Arts%20Belts Don't know why you would want one though, if its required for your art, then I'm sorry.
5. If you don't know the difference between a single wrap and a double wrap belt, then it's not time for you to be getting a gray belt. When putting on your obi (belt), you wrap it around and then tie it. Traditionally, it wraps around twice (double wrap). However, to add variety for all of the wannabes who are too lazy to wrap it around just one more time they created the single wrap belt.