and no neck muscle...
A HS Classmate of mine graduated from West Point. We played football together and he was a physical specimen. Played TE for us, OT at the Point.
Anyway, he was encouraged to take a trip up there for a visit during the summer between our junior & senior years. The Plebe Class was already there, and some female plebes were going through a self-defense course. The instructor asks Jim to try and throw a jab at one of the women. I imagine he didn’t throw a serious punch and the female countered with a kick to the rib cage. He felt it, but that’s where the demonstration ended.
Here’s the thing. Jim was about 6’4” and a solid 240. Had that been a ‘live’ full-contact fight, that female cadet would have been permanently disabled. That is combat.
That was 1976. Almost 50 years later we are still lying to ourselves.