Breaking down fighting into 'venues of fighting' helps with analysis.
1. Melee (mass fighting, group combat)
2. Warfare (all-out fighting with casualties)
3. Sport-fighting (MMA, cage fighting, ring fighting, No-holds barred fighting)
4. Dueling (agreed combat with some rules between two combatants)
Individual combat (stand up fighting, ground-fighting, but with rules)
5. Ceremonial fighting (traditional fighting, Sumo, Bataireacht (Irish stick fighting) and Coraíocht (Irish wrestling). )
6. Self-defense fighting (street fighting, mortal combat, life-or-death fighting)
7. Historical Reproduction fighting (HEMA, jousting)
8. Handheld-weapons fighting (single and double stick fighting, knife fighting, sword and buckler, handguns, flails, spears, and so on.)
9. Demonstration fighting (kata, one-steps, demonstrations using a static opponent)
10. Stage fighting - fighting for movies and theatre. Includes fanciful moves which may or may not be combat effective.
11. Gladiatorial fighting - combat against various foes, bear-baiting, and other animals.
12. Quick-kill fighting. It happens in other venues but there are specific methods of quick-kill like throat jabs, neck snaps and eye-jabs to deadly followups
Please check out Badger Johnson's other essays:
- A Martial Framework
- How To Exceed Your Plateaus
- Adding to Arnold's Six Principles of Success
- 10 Tips on how to analyze a martial art for effectiveness
- "To be a master is very different from being an expert."
- Addendum, Clarification and Expansion of Paul Vunak's Fighting Secrets
- Expanded Ways of Attack
- "Fifty Important Elements in Martial Arts"
- Can Trapping Work?
- The Genesis and Development of Zone Theory
- A few aspects of self-defense training
- Some of the important ten things…
- Over-speed Training - Accessing the Subconscious and the Power of Threes
- Coaching, self-coaching, talent, experience, genetics, opportunity, motivation
- Thresholding
- "I'd Like to Teach the World to Dance"
- Some thoughts today
- "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
- Beyond Martial Skills
- Some of the Major Misconceptions or Fallacies of JKD
- How Bruce Lee may have improved skill using biofeedback
- The Art of Fighting Without Fighting
- Not Martial Trained, But Fighting Fit
- Against One Who Scares Us
- What Bruce Lee Taught Us
- What is Mobile Kicking?
- Fighting Fit Part 2 - The Seven Essentials
- How Bruce Lee Trained His Quick Kill
- Seeing Deeply - the Method and Intangibles
- Big Picture - Training Martial Arts and Self-Defense
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