And one of those times had been at hand-to-hand combat, no less.

If you look at combat, every human emotion known to the human race is on display.

"I've started thinking to myself, how good am I at hand-to-hand combat?"

He is an amateur, at both security functions and at combat.

Their experience at combat had been limited until this mission.

They were generally good enough at armed combat not to need it.

Almost unthinking, he held his arm and hand at combat ready.

Not that he'd be much good at combat.

There was no other way to look at aerial combat.

In return for their ability to deal larger amounts of damage, mages are very poor at physical combat.