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FOREWORD

When I first heard about the Battlefield Proximity Combat system, created by my friend and student Hakim Isler, I wondered why such a system was needed. I thought surely someone has done this before. It seems like common sense that if you are going to send a combat soldier, who is wearing up to a hundred pounds of gear, weapons, and armor into battle, you would want to train him or her in a combat system that focused on how to win a fight for life on the battlefield.

The more I spoke with Hakim and other military friends about training for hand-to-hand survival in battle, the more surprised I became. It turns out that very little, if any, time and attention is given to providing realistic pragmatic training in preparing the soldier’s body, intellect, and spirit on how to achieve victory in those admittedly rare occasions when the battle degenerates down to an eye-to-eye struggle between determined adversaries.

I am aware that some branches of the United States military offer forms of spirit-building training based on sport grappling or sport boxing. Of course, these are by nature spirit-builders only, intended to foster fighting grit in young soldiers as opposed to teaching them what to do to survive the horror of a murderous assault. Spirit-building practice is carried out in light training clothes and not actual battle gear. Techniques taught are based on two individuals, each struggling for the submission of the other, and this does not address the practical techniques needed to preserve lives in actual combat. Spirit-building certainly has a valuable place in the education of young soldiers, but it can in no way replace honest preparation in how to avoid the kind of body and mind lock-up that happens in real battles and could result in death.