Force Escalation: Formidable Fighter, #7
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The study of the martial arts encompasses more than self-defense for a smaller individual against a bigger opponent on the street. Many arts emphasize tournament competition as well as the more noble idea of subduing an opponent without hurting him or her by only taking the fight to the level necessary to ensure safety. The inherent chaos of physical confrontation sometimes makes it difficult to end a fight with a single strike. The martial arts strategist considers how one strike or technique leads to another until the final blow that ends the fight can be launched. We call this type of strategy force escalation. Although a defensive technique such as a block may help you avoid your opponent’s first strike, it does little to end the confrontation. You cannot win a fight in the training hall, ring, or street without offense. Remember that you are not just a defender; you are an elite fighter, and you must know how to dish it out as well as take it. Formidable Fighter: The Complete Series, a compilation of all 14 books in this series, is available in both electronic and print format.
Martina Sprague
Martina Sprague grew up in the Stockholm area of Sweden. She has a Master of Arts degree in Military History from Norwich University in Vermont and has studied a variety of combat arts since 1987. As an independent scholar, she writes primarily on subjects pertaining to military and general history, politics, and instructional books on the martial arts. For more information, please visit her website: www.modernfighter.com.
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Force Escalation - Martina Sprague
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Always use caution when practicing the martial arts. The reader assumes full responsibility for injuries incurred by doing the exercises in this manual.
Table of Contents
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Preface
Technique Enhancement
Simple to Complex
Primary and Secondary Techniques
Force Escalation When Standing
Force Escalation When Fallen
When a Technique Fails
Points to Remember
Debriefing
Preface
The Formidable Fighter Series is a series of booklets for martial artists desiring to learn the concepts that create formidable fighters in the training hall, competition arena, and street. Each booklet is between 5,000 and 10,000 words in length and includes fighting scenarios, training tips, and illustrations. Force Escalation, the seventh booklet in the series, deals particularly with how to go from simple to complex techniques while ensuring that each successive step advances one toward the final objective of winning the fight by rendering the opponent harmless. Since the advice is not style specific but explores the underlying concepts of personal combat, it is applicable to students of most martial styles.
Power, or force, is a combination of good body mechanics and the proper use of the laws of physics as applicable to speed and momentum. If you follow the instruction and tips in the Formidable Fighter Series, you will learn how to develop your physical strength and mental tenacity and triumph as a fighter in the training hall, ring, and street.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman and Literary Figure
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control—these three alone lead to power.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, British Poet
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It’s almost inevitable there's going to be an escalation on both sides.
—Bill Luther, 1945- ,