In The Combat Space James LaFond takes the reader through five fields of the combat experience: Mind & Body, Boxing, MMA, Stick & Blade use, and postmodern survival applications from awareness to legal preparedness.

Preface

This book was generated primarily by readers of The Punishing Art, Twerps Goons & Meatshields and Being a Bad Man in a Worse World. Readers’ questions have been retained. The content has been arranged progressively from Essence [mind & body], Ring [boxing], Cage [MMA], Duel [stick & blade], and Survival, taking the reader from those practices furthest removed in kind and spirit from a lonely encounter in a dark place at midnight [namely the process of mental and physical improvement of training and boxing], through the art of biomechanical combat integration that is MMA,1 on to the use of weapons—which rule the nighttime world—and finally to examples and advice concerning actual criminal encounters.

I trust the reader will find this volume a useful addition to his or her quest to remain an actor in this evil world, rather than the simple receptacle for the actions of those who would do us harm.

-James LaFond, 16 May 2018