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"Reality of Combat"

  This video  recently gained some attention as it demonstrated the brutal nature of close quarters combat, and how even in the modern day even a fight with a grenade and rifles can lead to an up close and intensely personal knife- and bite-fight.  There is an incredible amount of absolute nonsense put out there in EVERY facet of the martial world: martial arts, modern combatives, classical martial traditions, you name it. The reason is people have forgotten the difference between these things and the kind of things seen on this admittedly viscerally moving video.  Some of the most verbose pontificators, and some highly regarded teachers, blathering on "the reality of combat" have never even been in a fight , let alone actual personal combat. They can't even begin to understand where they are wrong, let alone in what things they may have obtained a kernel of truth. More interesting, the only place I really saw this shared was on combatives sites, maybe some jiujitsu ...