“Distance: a space or interval between two things”.
That’s the definition of the word in my Oxford English Dictionary. But I am concerned in this article with something slightly more combat specific: ‘fighting distance’. A working definition of this concept might be:
“The space between you and your opponent at any given moment in time.”
The space between you and your opponent is effectively your ‘field of play’ and it is never fixed. In fact even at its greatest it’s a pretty short ‘court’ – nowhere near the length of a tennis court or cricket wicket; and shorter than a table tennis table, where at the closest your opponent would be 9 feet from you. At it’s shortest of course, there is no space between you and your opponent at all – not even the width of a net!
Because your opponent is actively trying to kick, punch or grapple (or any combination of the three) the living daylights out…
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