To a great extent, the dynamics of one-on-one combat correlate to larger scale conflicts. Fight strategy in a face-to-face confrontation a boxing match, or street fight for example; can help to inform the formation of strategy against any power structure.
Target vulnerabilities, learn your opponent’s movements, draw your enemy out of his area of expertise, pace yourself to maintain your stamina while consistently attacking, etc, etc.
In this regard, as an Irishman myself, and former boxer, I can’t help but be intrigued by the young Irish MMA fighter Connor McGregor.
His approach to hand-to-hand combat is highly useful for rethinking our approach to revolutionary struggle against the global power system.
McGregor says:”I just want to have no technique. I want people to look at me and not know what’s going to happen. The highest technique to have is to have no technique.”
This is Open Source Revolution theory in a nutshell. No structure, no predictability, no hierarchy; just a diversity of tactics, unity of goals and demands, and the concept of strategic disruption.
Incidentally, McGregor’s team has a lovely slogan as well:
We didn’t come to take part, We came to take over!