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The first belt you're actually "awarded" is the orange belt. The instructors joked that the white belts are to "hold up your pants."
Anyway...you get stripes on the white belt, I think it was three, one at a time, and on the third stripe, you get the orange belt...something like that.
And they bust your ASS on that final qualifying session. At the end, we (my brother in law, my niece, and I) were gasping for air and sweating like hogs and thinking "OBOY, HERE COMES THAT ORANGE BELT"...
...except the instructor hadn't ordered them, and we'd have to wait. We were visibly disappointed. He said:
"THINK OF IT AS A LESSON IN HUMILITY."
So that would be my advice to the phone-less MAGAts.
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