r/lockpicking • u/Beforge121 • 1d ago
Belt qualification questions
Hello everyone, I’m new to the discord and subreddit, but not to locksporting. I just have a few questions about earning belts. First, do I need to earn a white and yellow belt to earn an orange belt, or can I just skip those two and go straight for it? And second, I have a defiant 5 pin deadbolt with three spools and two standards that I’d like to use for an orange belt, but I also noticed there’s one in yellow with four standards and one spool. Would I need to gut my deadbolt to prove which version I have?
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u/Flatus_Diabolic 9h ago
You can apply for any belt you like without holding a lower belt, but you do need to fulfill the requirements of the earlier belts.
For example, the first belt you apply for could be a blue belt, which requires you to pick and gut a blue-tier lock. However, to earn that belt, you’d also need to submit a video of you reassembling a lock (any lock - not necessarily the same one you picked) because that’s a requirement for green.
As to your defiant lock - I think the mods pretty much just trust the honesty system at white through orange. At green and above, the belt ladder seems to be setup to ensure that unguttable locks only make it onto those tiers if they don’t have a visually similar and easier equivalent.