This article, which has now been uploaded to the Combat Group website, is about the journey of two combat systems, one armed and the other unarmed. The armed discipline is that of combat/practical pistol shooting, compared to the practical aspects of traditional martial arts.
 
Both have been on a remarkably similar journey where the true, defensive development of these combat disciplines has been lost at times, especially with the introduction of competitions which, whilst originally intended as a test of combative skills became an end in themselves, losing at times the original realistic and defensive nature of the systems.
 
Whilst the article examines the comparisons between pistol shooting and martial arts and the internal struggles to keep a sense of realism in both, this article is very much about ‘impact’ and the and the parallel issues of delivering this to an assailant where the need for speed and accuracy may well conflict with that critical requirement of what’s needed to put the person down.
 
This is a topic I’ve wanted to tackle for some time and with no apologies it runs to some 35 well-illustrated pages. Even if you don’t have a specific knowledge of, or interest in combat pistol, the journey, trials and tribulations the system has experienced in retaining combat integrity will resonate well with those of us who have tried to achieve the same within the martial arts arena.    
 
Click on the link below to go straight to the article.
 
https://www.thecombatgroup.com/downloads/CCCcomp.pdf
 
Peter Consterdine