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Chapter 1: Introduction to ISU Every now and then, as humanity goes through the roller coaster of evolution, leaps are made in the arts and sciences that spawn new adjustments in the seemingly already evolved state of our world. We tend to reach a point where we assume that we have advanced as far as we possibly can. Fifty short years ago, who would have thought that we could travel in space? Well, people did, and so it has become a reality. The martial arts are no different. Even though nothing is totally new in hand to hand combat, there is still an evolution that happens, usually by the examples of a few who lead us from one concept of what is possible to the next. In the early nineties, the mainstream world of martial arts was forever and irrevocably affected by the rebirth of limited rules sport fighting, as seen in the Ultimate Fighting Championships. It raised the question people always ask, What is the most effective hand to hand style? Time went on, and the level of knowledge quickly rose, the next question was when someone does force a situation on you, especially when they know what they are doing, what do you do? The truth is no one style has the best answer for every situation, so modern day sport fighters, who a