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Its impossible to understand any information without some prior knowledge to relate it to. The less we know, the less we can understand.

The entirety of human combat has been defined by Risk & Control. To define Martial Arts in this way, however, is actually quite rare.

Systems surround us: government, bureacratic, business, marketing, entertainment & technological systems. But who studies 'Combat Systems'?

The concept of Combat Logic suggests that fighting is defined by rules and such rules can be articulated in words & in actual behaviour.

Combat is a universal human concern, and conflict between two or more human bodies is also universal. To learn how to speak is universal, but the language spoken is local to the individual speaker. Likewise, learning to fight is universal (the form of the body against another using transactional force) and is the same the world over. The terminology, the devised drills (for complex motor-skill development) and the particular world-view on combat are all inherited from the local culture, yet the principles of combat; to exert force within Time and Space are the same. The motivations too are the same, and when we realise the shared function of behaviour in combat, we recognise that all Combat Systems are essentially the same.

The Unified (or ‘Anthropic’) Combat System is the world’s first (and only) combat system devised,

from a modern, globalised world-view of the martial arts,
using Cybernetics and principles of Data Handling,
Statistical analysis and assessment of the martial arts
with Scalability in mind ‘from recreational to eskirmological’
Compiled into a single ‘normalised’ syllabus
for the experience of combat which transcends cultural origin
But admits the capacity to experience any and all cultural solutions to martial arts problems.

Whilst there are many moderns combat systems designed for the reality of the street or military scenarios, very few of them reconcile the data available from the entire human race into a single, functional and compatible combat system.

“Nowadays, the martial arts are constrained to exhibitions and they must be taken back to their roots; it must be a science again, learning from nature, allowing masters to show and share their opinions.”

Guerra de la Vega, 1681

Students of Eskirmology’s Unified Combat System begin by reducing their practice back to the experience of the human body in interaction with another human body. By means of drills, core skills are developed drawing upon both the end-function as well as culturally-derived practices. These behaviours have been developed scientifically, guided principally by a clear and explicit set of objectives. This core skill development programme is termed the ‘Unified/Anthropic Combat System’ and is similar in concept to Bruce Lee’s ‘Framework’.

Once the student has developed a foundation in the core skills, then he may embark on cross-cultural experimentation and experience. The Eskirmological Institute regularly invites practititoners from other Combat Systems which specialise in particular behaviours. For example, a class on the traumatic effect of percussive action of body tissue may well invite a Dim Mak master or even a GP to speak precisely on the matter. Lessons are based upon a scientific method to experience, to question and to experiment, to learn and interact whilst embarking on the study of human ‘martial culture’ itself.

The Unified Combat System as a programme highlights the core scientific practices of correct biomechanical motion, of proper application of force and the development of the exploitation of the key skills that an individual’s body-type will suit. Each student is delivered a ‘Somatotypic Profile’ which outlines the kinds of core skills his bodily-attributes favour, and although all students must learn all parts of the Unified Combat System, they are offered the key understanding of their own attributes, to recognise the competing attributes of others and specifically how to overcome them.

“It is no exaggeration to say that the original sense of Karate-do is at one with the basis of all martial arts.”

Funakoshi, Gichin (Karate-Do Kyohan, 1973, 4)

The syllabus consists of a set of techniques derived from the Core Concepts of Eskirmology, teaching a set of finite motor-skills, as well as the fundamental algorithmic behaviours derived from combative risk assessment. These core skillsets are later traced within other combat systems, so that students may see correlates and identify greater densities of behaviours within particular martial arts.

Later in training, students are introduced to Combat Systemics, the set of study and statistical methods devised to identify ‘behaviour-propensity’. By cross-referencing such propensities with known attribute profiles, ‘Martial Arts’ as combat systems may be identified as suiting particular body types and attributes. This may also lead to deeper understanding of particular martial arts as well as more intimate appreciations of the founder’s (The Architect) attributes and skillsets.

The Unified Combat System has been devised to fulfill four core functions:

To act as a reality-based self-defence system,
To develop a framework for standardised Martial Arts practice,
To be the conduit through which discrete scientific knowledge about fighting and martial arts may be developed,
To facilitate a much deeper, spiritual path to enlightenment via the dedication of the intellectual and bodily powers.

“Everyone thinks differently from everyone else, so he behaves differently in combat…” inevitably, “…we are not all of a single nature, so we also cannot have a single style in combat, yet all must nonetheless arise and be derived from a single basis.”

Joachim Meyer, 1570 (Trans. Forgeng, 2006)

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