soldiery Self Defense - Mcmap 8 Years Later

To say that the forces self defense program called Mcmap - the Marine Core Martial Arts program - has been a success would be a dire understatement. The Marines who undertook this program refer to themselves as "Semper Fu" practitioners, and consider themselves knowledgeable about the most effective self defense tactics on the planet.

Eight years after it's inception, it's 2010, and the Corps is finding at how the program is maturing. The forces self defense syllabus is currently broken into five 'belts'.

Marine Corps Ranks

Tan Belts, which recruits must achieve to pass Basic Training, contain several hand strikes including hammer fist, level punches, uppercuts, hooks, and elbow strike; a few foot strikes including stomps, front kicks, knee strikes, and side kicks; basic bayonet usage; basic grappling and counter-grappling; knife fighting; and something called "basic weapons of opportunity" training.

soldiery Self Defense - Mcmap 8 Years Later

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Grey Belts strengthen on the Tan Belt syllabus without adding new categories of combat except a profound emphasis on ground fighting and and a single entirely new element: baton fighting.

Green Belts continue to construct the techniques of the lesser belts, but begin to strengthen into areas previously unique to the martial arts, including muscle gouging, unarmed manipulation techniques, and complex counterstrikes.

Brown Belts add some complex throwing techniques to the previous belts' self defense tactics and begin to construct unarmed vs. Armed techniques including disarming firearms and how to sustain your own firearms.

Black Belts delve deeper into unarmed vs. Firearms scenarios, pressure point strikes, strengthen upper-body crippling strikes, and "master-level weapons of opportunity" training as well as learning to fight with an empty rifle, short weapon, and unarmed versus an opponent armed with a ready-to-fire rifle.

To say that the Mcmap is a forces self defense school or a martial art is to fail to do justice to the syllabus the Marine Corps has put together. As it moves into it's second decade, the Marine Corps is exciting notions to make Grey Belt a necessity for recruits to pass Basic Training, as well as adding hundreds of new instructors, facilities, and on-call field doctors to address injuries sustained during Mcmap practice.

The Corps is also finding at modifying or doing away with a restriction that currently prevents a soldier from wearing a single belt if he has not been promoted to a sufficiently high rank - a restriction that is currently retention thousands of skilled combatants from applying for a higher belt.

The most exciting element of the Mcmap that has made it so popular and effective is not it's lethality - rather, it's the selection for lethality that separates it from the Marines' previous unarmed combat style. In the '80s and '90s, Marines were trained in extraordinarily lethal techniques...and that was all. Today, forces self defense doesn't mean killing your foe, which makes learning the Mcmap style an selection with much broader motion to the American populace as a whole.

soldiery Self Defense - Mcmap 8 Years Later