Historically, any form of struggle would in principle be considered being a manifestation of the spirit of a fight, having a particular mentality which expresses its mode.
It’s not difficult to differentiate the fighting modes between a crazed, trained killer sprinting after you with a knife as suppose to a trained fighter doing few rounds of sparring with you.
Most often it is not just few great quality techniques and strategies that you are up against, but also the mode or the manifestation of the spirit that they are derived from.
A comprehensive training curriculum should include not just a limited number of popular moves in popular circumstances, but every possible manifestation of the modes that a fight can be expressed in.
In short, a wise martial arts teacher or coach is not blinded by mere combinational routines and techniques which may have popular crowd attractions, but considers a wider horizon and adopts deeper practical possibilities which can have more serious consequences for students——if they are ignored.
It’s not far fetched to see an effective technique becoming ineffective, a good delivery system becoming a bad one, and an efficient fighter becoming inefficient, and vice versa.
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Photo: Tyson vs. Golota