Biomechanics of Combat Arts: Book 1

About the Book

Biomechanics of Combat Arts: Book 1: The Fundamentals is a technical field manual for martial artists who refuse to leave performance to chance. It strips technique down to structure, leverage, and neuromuscular timing, then rebuilds the fighter from the ground up so that every strike, throw, and recovery is supported by physics, not habit.

This volume treats the body as a combat system: bones as levers, joints as gateways, fascia as tension lines, and the nervous system as the command network that decides whether movement holds under pressure or collapses on contact. Instead of offering another catalogue of techniques, it explains why motion succeeds, why it fails, and how to rewire training so the body obeys under stress.

Written from the perspective of a lifetime practitioner and instructor, the book bridges anatomy, kinesiology, and real combat application. You will see where power is born, where it leaks, and what must be trained so that structure, not willpower, carries the fight.

What This Book Covers

• Structural alignment and skeletal leverage that keep the frame intact under impact and load.
• Base of support, center of gravity, and balance control while moving, striking, and recovering.
• Kinetic sequencing and force chains that turn the entire body into a single, timed weapon.
• Fascial lines and tension pathways that transmit, store, and redirect power across the body.
• Motor unit recruitment, co contraction, and synergy as the nervous system’s tools for efficient movement.
• Stability, redundancy, and load management for long term injury resilience and career longevity.

Each chapter is written for training, not trivia. Concepts are tied directly to stance work, striking, grappling entries, clinch control, and recovery under live resistance, so the material can be pressure tested in the gym and on the mat.

What You Will Learn

By working through this volume, you will learn how to read your own body as clearly as you read an opponent. You will understand why certain techniques feel heavy and slow while others snap with minimal effort, and you will have the tools to adjust structure instead of forcing strength.

You will learn how base, posture, and center interact so that you can launch, land, and recover without giving away balance. You will learn how to sequence force from floor to fist or from hips to grip, and how to feel the difference between a chain that is delivering power and a chain that is leaking it at every joint.

Above all, you will learn to design training that respects physics and physiology. That means drills built around alignment and timing rather than random exhaustion, strength work that protects joints instead of grinding them down, and technical practice that prepares your body for the fatigue, friction, and chaos of real opposition.

Who This Book Is For

This book is written for practitioners who want more than repetition, for instructors who need a deeper framework for teaching, and for coaches who must protect their athletes while sharpening their performance. It serves:

• Traditional martial artists who want to ground their art in clear mechanical principles.
• Combat sports athletes who need to tighten structure for striking, clinch, and grappling.
• Self defense instructors who must explain why movement works, not only how it looks.
• Strength and conditioning coaches who support fighters and need to align gym work with combat realities.
• Serious students of movement who want to understand how the body manages force under threat.

If you are tired of vague cues like be faster or use more hip and want to see the actual system behind those phrases, this volume is your starting point.