"Martial Arts" as a term envelops many different disciplines which teach aspects intergral to training in the Arts, but the most important technique present within all arts is the development of an impenetrable foundation on which skills can be built and refined.
A basis for strategy in the Arts is the fundamental practice against situations which can arise in both a combative and casual environment. Therefore, it is necessary for the practitioner to maintain an alert and assessing mind which does not rely entirely on the body's natural (or conditioned) responses to particular situations.
- Foundation
- Fundamental Techniques
- Conditioning
- Form
- Combative Techniques
- Offense
- Defense
- Intermediary
- Applications
- Situational
- Environmental
- Mental Conditioning
- Control (technique, emotion, and strategy)
- Recognition (patterns, variables, situations, etc.)
- Manipulation (situations and opponent)
- Complex Techniques
- Adaptation of Fundamentals
- Experienced
- Fundamental Naturalization
- Reactive Conditioning
- Controlled Reconditioning
- Simplification
- Techniques
- Situations
- Applications
- Complete Assessment
- Universal Knowledge (opponent, capabilities, environment, etc.)
[Please note that the theories developed above are merely ideas and suppositions of approaches to studying strategy in the Martial Arts; nothing is stated as fact, and the information is presented only as an opinion of a possible study method.]