Oh, I don't know about that. Some broad training methodologies intended to teach certain generalized ("universal") fighting "skills" can be applied in nearly every martial system, or even culture. There are just some things that are "universal" problems or pitfalls that fighters must somehow be able to conquer. Almost all of these are related to human adrenal dump; "fight or flight" response. Some of it is related to the fact that humans are just really really bad at making logical decisions, even simple binary decisions, when under adrenal dump. A successful "fighting" or (gads) "Combat" martial art must include methods for addressing this.
I've found that there appears to be two "solutions" to achieving these results.
First is the concept of controlling the mindset so that adrenal dump either doesn't happen or is controlled in such a way as to have minimized physiological impact. I believe that this is one of the reasons that the Japanese developed the concepts of zanshin and mushin. That relaxed, semi-meditative-like state of detached, peaceful state awareness empty of anger, fear, or, to a degree, even aggression. Learning how to enter that state takes years usually of dedicated practice and a good instructor but when it works, it works really well. Another method along these lines is a process head-shrinkers call "desensitization." This is a process where the troubling "stimulation" has occurred sooooo many times to you that it no longer bothers you at all. It's the same method used to treat people with phobias and teach Nazi death-camp guards that it's OK. When applied to a violent encounter, constant, repeated exposures to the violence, including (especially) doling out the violence, no longer creates the adrenal dump/fight-or-flight which puts you in a very narrow mental loop and often causes untrained people to freeze. With sufficient desensitization, "it's just another day at the office, breaking stuff off of people, I wonder what's for dinner? <crunch>" Desensitization also takes a great deal of time to affect, multiple, repeated exposures.
The second concept is now commonly used by many militaries of the world, including the U.S. military. Harness the adrenal dump response. This focuses on the "fight" part of "flight-or-fight." During adrenal dump, people sort of go into an automated loop. They do exactly, and often ONLY, what they've trained to do. I call this "robo-droid." I recall seeing video of a man trying to use a pistol for self defense and failing. He pulls the trigger over and over and the gun does nothing. It won't fire. Turns out he had the safety on. His training had never included flicking off the safety as part of his defensive drills so when adrenal dump hit, his robo-droid followed its programing by pointing and pressing the trigger. Robo-droid is pretty much just a set of programs, following a script which it is incapable of deviating from. Much of military combat training is now focused on programming robo-droid on how to react. Many people who enter this state report that there is sort of a run-up to it of very heightened fear or anger and then a kind of "going dead" detached feeling while their body does very violent things, outside of their control. A little like being a tourist riding along inside your body while a robot takes over. From the outside, people viewing it often report that all emotion drains from the persons face or that their eyes go dead and there's a feel of impending violence balanced on a knive's edge. This isn't an entirely new concept, of course. Fighters have been training to use the "combat rage" for as long as humans have been fighting. There's some evidence, for instance, that the semi-legendary Berzerkers operated this way. (On a side note, if you see someone in the run-up to a fight and you can almost literally see their eyes "go dead," GTFO right now! crap's about to hit the fan.)
Any of these general training methodologies for dealing with fight-or-flight can be applied to almost any martial arts training or system from boxing, to grappling, to swordfighting, all the way up through modern firearms.
Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
) in the Military it works because you are part of a Unit. You can afford to tunnel vision on your targets because of the rest of the unit addressing other targets. On the Street in civilian life that dynamic is rarely there so I see a difference personally. In short what works for a mass military action where casualties are acceptable, but if ourse you wish to minimize, vs how you should train for a violent individual encounter where you becoming a casualty is not acceptable to you? These appear to be different goals require a different focus of sorts. fighting tunnel vision rather than relying on the battle buddy to hit the guy you can't see is the first difference that comes to mind.
