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**THE INTERNAL BATTLE**

**Preparing Yourself for Action**

**Commitment** — Resolving to act without hesitation.

**Confidence** — Trusting your preparation and abilities.

**Readiness** — Organizing mind and body for immediate action.

**Vision** — Collecting useful visual information.

**Attention** — Selecting the information that matters.

**Intention** — Establishing your purpose before action.

**Structure –** Balanced, poised, like a wound spring

**Breathing –** tension in the abdomen

**Emotional Control** — Maintaining function under pressure.

**THE TACTICAL BATTLE**

**Shaping the Fight Before It Happens**

**Conception** — Defining your tactical objective.

**Preparation** — Creating the conditions for success.

**Framing** — Establishing your protective and tactical position.

**Probing** — Gathering information through interaction.

**Pressure** — Disrupting your opponent's readiness.

**Deception** — Concealing your true intentions.

**Initiative** — Dictating the pace and direction of the fight.

**Set-ups** — Creating opportunities through planned reactions.

**THE PHYSICAL BATTLE**

**Expressing the Solution**

**Movement** — Positioning for advantage

**Adaptation** — Adjusting to changing circumstances.

**Circumvention** — Solving problems by finding better paths.

**Recovery –** re-establishing readiness

#### **Resolution** — Achieving your tactical objective