The Close Combat Training Article Vault

Welcome, folks - you've found our encyclopedic store of martials arts, self defense, and close combat articles.

Choose a main category below, and you'll be taken to the library page for the category, where you can browse to your little heart's content...

• Martial Arts - information on various styles of martial arts, the history of martial arts, the distortion of the true goal of martial arts, famous martial arts practitioners, and the future
   
• Self Defense - tips on understanding what true self defense is, analyses of real-world self defense issues, common misconceptions about self defense, and the overall philosophy of self defense
   
• Close Combat - the origins and development of close combat (or "close quarters combat," as it's also known), how close combat has been affected through the centuries by different martial arts and self defense concerns, and close combat's role in modern self defense