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Martial Arts for Competition: From Chapter 1 of Advanced Tactical Self-Defense and Combat Solutions

  A question I regularly asked my cadre of instructors growing up was: “What is the difference between a style and a system?”  By my teenage years, I had exposure to several martial disciplines, yet I never understood how or why some of them were described a "style," while others claimed a "system," and yet more professed to be both. Was there really a difference? Did it even matter? As a teenager, I had neither the experience nor ...