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"Reality of Combat"

  A video  recently gained some attention for its demonstration of the brutal nature of close quarters combat, and how even in the modern day, personal combat with a grenade and rifles can quickly end up in 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 arts community. People have forgotten the difference between the things they are training and what is seen on this video.  Some of the most verbose pontificators, including highly regarded teachers, blathering on "the reality of combat" have never even been in a fight,  let alone actual personal combat. If they can't begin to understand where they are wrong, how can they know where they are correct? The places I've seen this video shared is on combatives sites, maybe some jiujitsu pages, probably because the most significant portion of it is on the ground. It is NOT jiujitsu by any stretch, but valid discussi...