Combat and Combat Sports: Specificity and Environment

SPECIFICITY Postscript By - Hunter “Chip” Armstrong

Marines at an ICS close combat bayonet, training course near Sedona, AZ.

Hoplology Glossary

• “combat systems” - systems aimed at close personal combat (lethal and non-lethal, military/martial and civilian)

• “combative systems” movement systems that simulate or appear to be similar to combat actions, but the outcomes of which are for non-combat purposes: spo…