For more than 4 decades I've worked to create a program that constituted the essence of combat. Style-free. Arts-free. Sports-free. The essence of hand, stick, knife and gun fighting. I envisioned a person skilled in unarmed combatives, yet armed with a rifle, or a pistol, or a stick or a knife, or all of them. Someone that could fight standing, seated, kneeling and on the ground, utilizing their "hands," or whatever weapon they had. And they could...