Full or latent awareness of death or serious injury. Death or serious injury. Comment combat Comment combat implies voluntary or indirectly coerced consent. Combative activity usually takes place between two individuals or detailed groups of individuals. It occurs with premeditation, with equality of risk and foreknowledge of the consequences.
Opponent is perceived as lethal threat to one's own life or bodily integrity.
Full or latent awareness of death or serious injury. Strong ritualistic element. Specific combative systems are specializations of practice systems. Combative activity usually takes place between two individuals or detailed groups of individuals. It occurs with premeditation.