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* [[wikipedia:William E. Fairbairn|Major William E. Fairbairn]]. Taught, among other things, sentry elimination to commandos. See [[Combat Pragmatist/Quotes|the quotes page]].
**By the way the combat style ''he'' invented was learned as a cop on the [[Wretched Hive|streets of Shanghai.]] Figure the rest out.
**As in similar examples, Fairbairn was teaching boys who used [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] for status-sorting how to kill (and of course girls who had their own ways of status sorting). His methods were disliked because they simply did not belong in a schoolyard.
* [[Miyamoto Musashi]]. Musashi probably would have used a gun if he had one available and the other guy didn't. "Fight FAIR!" is never really emphasized in his book.
** He'd have been willing to use a gun as though it were surprising. History shows that Samurai generally were pretty pragmatic on this and many other points.
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110808065944/http://jkdtalk.com/showpost.php?p=12683&postcount=10 This poster] on the Jeet Kune Do Talk forum used one of the [[Squick|grossest]] and [[Humiliation Conga|embarrassing]] but effective [[Improvised Weapon]] ever when he was attacked while using the urinal: [[Urine Trouble|his own piss]].
* [[Capoeira]]. [[Depending on the Writer|Depending on who you learn it from]], Capoeira can encompass anything from the standard showy but slow acrobatics, sweeps and kicks to slapping opponents' ears to disorient them, headbutts to the groan, concealed weaponry, tackles, takedowns, and more. "Cheapshots" just before a match proper aren't unheard of from savvy Capoeiristas who see an opponent without his guard up at all times.
== Other Forms of Combat ==
* Humanity's advancement is a decent amount of testament to this trope, honestly. If there's no way you can kill a larger animal with your bare hands, use a sharp rock. When your opponents are using sharp rocks, lash a sharp rock to a stick to create a spear. When your opponents are using spears, ''throw'' the spear, making it a javelin. When your opponents are using javelins, attach feathers and shoot them out of a bow, making them arrows. And so on...
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