I'm talking to a friend of mine right now. He's telling me about the marine martial arts program. the belts are as follows: Tan, green, brown and black. they have certain requirements you have to learn for certain ranks, as with any style, but the reqs are different. For his tan belt, he had to learn leg sweeps - yes all, like the KUNG FU sweeps, various throws, chokes and basic punches and gun and knife training. the system is called MACMAP (sp?)

Later this week, he's gonna come by and we're gonna work a little bit. He was describing some of the combat throws to me and I said "That sounds like shuai chiao" He said that it probably was, as his instructor told him that a lot of their stuff was heavily influenced by the chinese.