WELCOME TO HAND TO HAND COMBAT

This site is dedicated to bringing you information, tools, techniques and hand to hand combat training methods to help you improve your fighting skill level.

Today it is easy to get involved in hand to hand combat training. It  can be found in the martial arts, boxing, self defense courses or as part of  a fitness regime.

There are reliable, useful on-line resources, street fighting courses and DVD'S allowing anyone to train at home and develop their ability, technique and confidence.

Hand to hand combat has always existed in one form or another throughout our history. As humankind organised itself into ever larger groups and social communities the potential for conflict increased, both on the inter-community scale with disputes over resources and territory as well as the more personal level.

This naturally led to increased sophistication and development in the ways and means of how people engaged in dispute resolution.

Hand to Hand combat is fighting at close range as opposed to using long range weapons such as

• Missile projectors
• Guns,
• Bow and arrows,
• Crossbows etc.

Even though weapons technology has increased, many situations arise where there is no option but to engage an enemy at very ‘close quarters’.

Throughout history combatants would have to leave safe ground, descend from horseback or go ‘over the top’ of the trenches and deal violence to someone wearing a different coloured hat.

Often classified as unarmed fighting or close combat but it doesn’t have to mean without weapons. Often small weapons would be included in the hand to hand fighting definition, traditional weapons such as:

• Knives,
• Staves,
• Clubs
• Small swords

Anything that comes “to hand” can be used as weapon if it gives you an advantage over your opponent. You can guarantee that they will grab what they can; in a life or death situation who wouldn’t?

Fighting techniques and fighting systems

There are many fighting techniques and martial arts training systems in the world today:

Krav Maga, Kung fu, Karate, Self defense, Stick fighting, Kali, Jiu-Jitsu, Hapkido, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Eskrima, Jeet Kune Do, Pencak Silat and many more.

The need for hand to hand combat training will exist as long as there are people on this earth with family, homes, borders and countries to protect.

There will be organisations military, police and private who will continue the development and effectiveness of these fighting methods.

There will be individuals who will want to learn the best and greatest techniques they can and pass them onto others. Further still, there are people who will desire to learn methods to best master themselves and their environment.

How to master hand to hand combat

Learning how to turn your physical body into a weapon through any sort fighting technique, martial art or self defense techniques can be an amazing challenge to undertake; you need

• Focus and concentration
• Discipline and commitment
• Dedication and perseverance

However it is also highly satisfying to see your progression and the rewards can be enormous, leading you to a life of confidence, self assurance and peace of mind.

Beginning hand to hand combat

The old cliché of the learning curve is real when you are learning physical skills such as hand to hand combat training or fighting techniques. Sometimes there will be spontaneous leaps of growth such as when you get a technique clearly for the first time or suddenly see how to do it or what you’ve been doing wrong.

Mostly though it will be a slow ongoing process with peaks and troughs and peaks. Sometimes it may seem that we are not getting anywhere and we’ve plateaued out – we are moving along the same level but stick with it. This may be a sign that we have become complacent or that we need to change our training in some way.

In order to combat any negatives and make the most out of our training regimes there are some practical tips we can use to keep us motivated and fresh. Here a few to work into your own workouts.

• Keep your training goals in mind both short term ones and long term ones – it is easy to get somewhere if you know where you are going. Goals are always important to have as they will improve your focus considerably. See mind power combat success and martial arts training for the mind.
• Keep the company of similarly motivated friends and training partners – these people will encourage you, as you can do the same for them, and they will understand the process you are going through.
• Write a training diary to note your progress and mark your improvements. This doesn’t have to be a novel just pop down some thoughts after you have trained – a couple of sentences about how you thought training went, what you did or how you performed a technique. Before long, you will have evidence of how much progress you are making!
• Keep your training varied and mixed up – if you always train a certain way try to incorporate some unpredictability into your routine and keep your body guessing about what is coming up. it is all too easy to fall into the same exercises over and over again. this is ok if you want average or mediocre results.
• Give yourself enough rest and breaks for training – over training can often be detrimental not only to the body but to the spirit.
• Eat well – healthy diets without too much junk food will keep your fitness at its peak. Eat junk food and you will fail when you get in a fight!! You will be slow and heavy. The right foods will powerfully impact your energy, willpower and desire! Don't be like everyone else. Diet is key.