specifics in Spear fighting combat

[Kineas]

I have been looking for articles or books detailing specific fighting techniques for an ancient greek hoplite. but, i have yet to find any. I know that when a spear-tip was broken, then the hoplite would generally draw his short sword and fight as such. But, id imagine that he would have a very specific and precise spear fighting style to get the brittle tip into flesh as opposed to breaking it against armor.

I mentioned ship fighting because the gentleman who started this thread was interested in hoplite fighting man to man (as per the quote above)

I agree with Stefanos that there is no phalanx fighting on ship board

My point is this. If there were a wide variety of hoplite experiences of combat; and if hoplites had sometimes to fight in a rout, or at the edge of a phalanx, or in "non major battle" situations (like foraging, or plundering, or like small fights against a handful of peltasts), and if, further to that, hoplites outside of Sparta could expect to be called upon for sea service (after 425, even Spartan hoplites!)...
If all these are accurate statements, then whether or not our hoplite phalanx fights this way or that, it was, in fact, useful to a hoplite to have personal fighting skills. Ship fighting would, I would argue, ALWAYS be a set of personal duels. Ship fighting also called upon hoplites to throw javelins and leap and run and sit down... and then get landed somewhere in the Cheronese and form a phalanx for a few days....
Phalanx fighting, of whatever type, was not the only function of a hoplite's life, especially in the looser and more wide ranging battles from 430 BC to 279. And Pankration, swordsmanship, and perhaps even spear fighting would all be useful skills to have, from a wine shop brawl to the deck of a trireme, especially after war becomes "professionalized." And given how often Xenophon mentions a guy as a champion at Pentathlon just before saying "and he killed three men," it seems to me the personal combat skills may well have played a roll in phalanx fighting, too.
And if Xenophon says they fought four deep, doesn't Aristophanes have something to say?

houtôs epoliorkês' egô ton andr' ekeinon ômôs
eph' heptakaidek' aspidôn pros tais pulais katheudôn.

Tee hee.