There are millions of practicing martial artists aroiund the world in our globalized age, yet each is a member of schools separated by concepts such as 'style'. The Martial Arts Delusion presents a modern paradigm of combat and the martial arts based upon a Risk Model, to penetrate through traditional divides.

It was once cited that true martial art was about discovering the causes of ignorance. Using scientific principles from such fields as phiosophy, cybernetics, psychology and sociology, The Martial Arts Delusion outlines the factors which obsucre truth, and how one may reach the truth of not only the martial arts, but any subject.

The path to overcoming the causes of ignorance is essential to become a perfected martial artist, where one must overcome the product of inherited information from small local groups; The Martial Arts Delusion.

'...a groundbreaking piece of work!'-Grandmaster Kernspecht Dr. Sc.

Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword (Third edition)
Preface (Third edition)
Introduction
1 On combat logic (eskirmolgics
On combat logic
Biological impetus
A typology of combat-Serios & play: the 'Intensity scale' of combat; The dual scale of human combat; Scalabiity
The serious combat models
The play combat models
The improvement of one's chances in combat
The incremental combat model (ICM)-'Hit and away' skillset; Stand and compete' skillset
2 The creation of combat systems
Part One: The logic of combat systems
The predisposition to ritualise behaviour
Replacing the term 'martial arts'
The creation of a combat system
The cybernetics of combat systems
A typology of combat systems
The pre-scientific combat sytems
Part Two-The development of combat systems
Pre-scientific combat systems-subjective data collection
Eskirmological combat systems-The battlefield paradigm; The teleology of eskirmological combat systems; On attack and defence; The inevitability of transcendentalism; Attenuated combat systems
Part Three: The transmission and replication of behaviors
The pedagogy of combat systems
Replicating a set of combative rituals in another person
The logic of direct transmission
The logic of indirect transmission
3 The effect of society on combat systems
The institution and the combat system-On institutionalsiation; Totemism and 'clan formations'; The martial arts organism paradigm
Society and combat systems-Sociology and its impact on combat systems; On the sportification; of eskirmology in Western society; On the sportification; of eskirmology in Eastern society; Decline in relevance to serious combat
Deracination, anatopism & the fallacy of 'style'-Commoditisation of far eastern martial arts (FEMA); The concept of an anthropic combat system
4 The martial arts reformation
Development of an anthropic combat system
5 A pointer of the way
Bruce Lee; Autodidact and scientific reformist
As a conceptual framework for auto-didacticism
As a prototype ofr anthropic combat system
As a prototype for eskirmoloy
Failure of JKD to realize its potential as eskirmolog
Recoginising the effect of institutionalisation
Enter the codifiers
The move towards science
6 Reformation of through personal liberation
Reforming combat systems
Liberation from pre-scientific combat systems-Recognizing the effect of institutionalisation; Observe Rashomon and its effects
The self-The alpha & omega
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