Posturing

Posturing is the all but lost art of beating people by means of
psyche, winning with guile as opposed to force. It is the art
of fighting without fighting. In layman's terms it means
scaring the shit out of the opponent with 'blag', so that they
don't want to enter a physical arena with you. For every fight
that I've had where I employed a physical response, I must
have had at least another three where I beat my opponent
with posturing techniques, guile as opposed to force.
Initially, in my early days of door work I postured
instinctively, though not very convincingly. Then, when I
realised the potency of the long forgotten art of posturing, I
started to explore the histrionics of it and then, subsequently
fine tune it until it became laser sharp.