Beats me. I'm an American and I've never heard of it either. Jon
<snip> Interesting ... In all the years of (various) martial arts I took, I never heard of such a colour regime. Maybe it's an American thing. Maybe we were expected to be sufficiently "aware" so as no to need to be told. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

