Cool, sounds like you can really handle yourself. Also -- I must try Skyrim.

Another approach you can try is to actually forego physical combat in favor of other alternatives. Sometimes, if you struggle against what you perceive to be a strong opponent, you will make them strong. Your focus on their strength can build their strength. For some people, more and more enemies can come pouring out as the early ones are vanquished.

This could actually be really, really fun if your goal is to have lots of physical combat in an LD, but if it's interfering with other goals, other approaches might work better.

OpheliaBlue posted a really excellent example of this sort of soft power in a recent Dream Journal entry. She'd been dealing with a series of hostile demonic figures that popped up every few LDs and physically pinned her down and fought with her, not allowing her to continue with her dream goals. In this latest encounter, she used a combination of a different, softer form of dream control and conversation to weaken and ultimately banish the demon from her dream. Very good stuff.

WILDs on My Back - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Another example that shows the contrasting approaches concerns an obstacle that's popped up in my own LDs. I've occasionally hit a windstorm that will block my path when I'm trying to fly somewhere. When I tried to overpower one of these windstorms, it didn't work well at all: Pants Gone with the Wind - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

In another, earlier dream I had good luck with an approach where I simply flowed with the windstorm and turned it to my own purposes: Halloween in the Sky Fortress - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Just some ideas for you to mull over. The biggest thing, which seems to only come with time, is having the presence of mind to actually do this stuff.