Open Combat Catalogue · in development
Browse traditions from across the world, open any technique down to its mechanics and history, and see how systems sit beside each other — not as opinions, but as something you can inspect.
Not a ranking. A specimen drawer — each art held against the contexts it may meet, and the technical selections it actually makes.
TPS — Total Problem Space: the full range of all potential contexts that could be experienced. TSS — Total Solution Space: the full range of all technical selections made by a martial art.
T · S · M locate selections inside the Total Solution Space. The formula is a compact reading of that occupation.
Standing throws, ground control, sportive rule-sets and their street-shaped cousins.
[T2][S3][M4]
Positional chess on the ground — grips, frames, and the long game of submissions.
[T2][S3][M3]
Solo forms, partner drills, and the contested line between sport and civilian defence.
[T2][S1][M1/M2]
Eight limbs, clinch economy, and ring craft under pressure.
[T1][S1][M1/M2]
Centreline theory, sticky contact, and short-range economy.
[T2][S2][M1/M2]
Redirection, entering timing, and control through soft leverage rather than force-on-force.
[T2][S2][M3]
Full-contact conditioning, low-line kicking, and pressure under continuous exchange.
[T1][S1][M1/M2]
Joint locks, kicks, and circular redirection across mid-range contact.
[T2][S2][M2/M3/M4]
Wrestling, fencing, Eskrima, Taijiquan, boxing families — each addable, measurable, revisable.
[T·S·M]
Solution space fills as arts are encoded.
Preview profiles · TPS names contexts · TSS shows technical occupation of T·S·M · catalogue opens as entries are published
Every published entry is meant to survive a sceptical reader — figures you can download, claims you can check, layers you can peel.
One strike, read five ways: how the body makes power, how often it lands in the wild, how game theory frames the exchange, and how history named it.
Where does one art put its weight? Where does another leave a gap? The Field is built so you can ask that without shouting matches.
Illustrative shapes · live maps will regenerate from coded observations
Ask what one system barely touches — then see which neighbours spend their time there.
Comparisons will cite the corpus and the coding rules. If the picture changes, you’ll see why.
Start from an art, a situation, a principle, a range, a technique, or a method — and walk the links.
We’re building a commons you can trust: arts you can browse, techniques you can interrogate, comparisons you can verify. Leave your email and we’ll tell you when the next shelves go live — and send the occasional deep cut worth reading.
Prefer to look now? The rear-hand cross is already published in full.