Close combat is combat fighting ‘up close and personal’. This is the real deal. There are no ‘roundhouse’ kicks and tip-toe stances here.
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If you find yourself in a close combat situation or about to get into one, you better abandon any notions of keeping your clothes clean. Imagine dancing intimately with your partner on a night out. Well close combat is like that only the other person doesn’t want to dance they really want to hurt you or worse!
Often in close combat the ultimate goal is the incapacitation or …

Martial Arts Training or ‘The Arts of War’ developed from a need to protect oneself, one’s family and community from any outside attack by rival groups, raiders, conquering forces and so on. Over time, many regions of the world developed very different styles of martial art fighting techniques.

Martial Arts today are practised all over the world and not just by the communities that originated them. Wherever you are on the planet you can bet you are not far away from a class or teacher who will be able to …

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In real life fight situations where you or your loved ones or friends are being threatened with violence most people will be at a loss about what to do. We don’t have any fighting techniques because we don’t normally need them! For anyone who has been in that situation you quickly realise that it is nothing like the movies. It’s not being thrown over a table and getting up again or being hit in the face and coming back for more. It is nasty and brutal and may involve …