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MANY OF YOU MAY HAVE MISSED THIS NEWSLETTER...
It has come to my attention that, due to a glitch in our system, most of our new subscribers have missed out on the vital 1st "Welcome" issue of our Newsletter which contains the key article "Adapt Or Die". This article gives a great overview of the Guided Chaos system and what it does--and why.
I am therefore sending a copy to everyone so you all get a chance to view...or RE-view it!
--Matt K.
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| GUIDED CHAOS: ADAPT OR DIE |
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It's
one of the strange ironies of martial arts: you train and train to
defend yourself against an unexpected attack, yet the methods used only
work if you know ahead of time exactly what the attacker is going to do.
In other words, you train for an "expected" attack! Unless you're
clairvoyant or delusional this is something that only happens in movies.
What is sorely lacking is a primary emphasis on ADAPTABILITY. Attacks can and will come at any time, in any form and at any angle. If
this is the reality, then training any form of pre-planned
choreographed techniques is as inappropriate as a surgeon bringing his
standard tools to a plumbing job. |
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When Bruce Lee said:
"...be
formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup it becomes
the cup. If you put it into the bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put
it in a tea cup it becomes the tea cup. Now water can flow or it can
crash. Be water my friend."
...he was trying to shatter the
rigidly held paradigm that every fight was going to look exactly the way
you planned it to be. A symptom of this belief is a fervent reliance on
a regimented sequence of movements, or, in other words,
"self-defense-techniques." |
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The
problem is that when you train your nervous system to respond in a
practiced way it will attempt to replicate this pattern even if the
attack encountered has no resemblance to your training.
Even
training a thousand techniques will not circumvent this problem because
training your nervous system to spit out correct defenses is not like
taking a math exam. If you train specific responses to specific attacks
your brain will always process information in this highly artificial,
linear way and it will suffer a core meltdown under extreme duress.
Why is this so? Because when the spit hits the fan, all fights devolve into utter chaos and resemble nothing you've ever planned for. Any
other representation of violence is sheer delusion and fantasy. Even
something as simple as the success of a standard mid-block requires an
absolutely perfectly predicted delivery of a center-line punch by the
attacker, something you can guarantee will never happen unless he
cooperates with you. This only happens in the dojo. And if you can
predict every move and change by your attacker then you really would be
better off living in Vegas or playing the ponies. |
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This
what you HOPE will happen: Attacker throws punch exactly where, when
and HOW you expect. Your right mid-block perfectly counters his jab. |
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This
is what ACTUALLY happens: The attacker's punch turns out to be more
hook than jab, your block misses or his superior size and strength
overpowers your block and breaks your jaw as you move in. |
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Through
tactile energy, sensitivity and adaptivity training, you FEEL the
attacker's intent rather than try to calculate the correct matching
technique from memory and then pick it out of the air with eye-hand
coordination. You flow, blend, move in and hit with whatever counter
strike is natural at that instant.
Let's take a closer look at the inadequacies of technique training. |
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"A Technique for Every Attack?"
Like
some gigantic chess-playing computer, you could hypothetically create
the perfect defense for every attack. How many would you need? Ten? A
hundred? A thousand? What happens if the attack deviates 5% from the one
you’ve trained? Now multiply this factor exponentially for every
millisecond of a violent encounter. You could learn multiple martial art styles to increase the probability of finding an appropriate defense. However even if you learned a million techniques from a thousand
styles you still could not match every variation of angle, delivery or
mid-course correction possible in a random assault. Which leads to the
next problem:
"How Many Techniques Can One Person Learn?"
To accomplish the
above (even if it were possible) would require many lifetimes of
dedicated practice. And even then, what if you forgot the one you needed when it
counted? This problem, of treating self defense like an infinite number
of padlocks with an infinite number of matching keys, is by its very
nature unworkable. Which leads to the next problem:
"Will It Work in the Field?"
Reality is not like a
pristine laboratory with perfectly controlled variables. Reality is
filled with sheer unadulterated terror, heart-bursting adrenaline and
unpredictable chaos, which can blow the circuits of any perfectly tuned
martial arts computer. Think you could do your taxes while fending off
blows to the head? Learning self-defense techniques by rote is not too
dissimilar.
The Trap of Pattern Fixation
When
a martial artist trains choreographed, specific, defenses for specific
attacks his reactions become locked against any other attacks. Even if
he trains, say, boxing, his movements will be trained and engrained to
follow a boxing paradigm no matter what kind of chaotic assault he is
subjected to in reality. This can create a fatal delay, freeze-up or
even a grossly inappropriate and suicidal reaction, like grappling a knifer, locking
to his body while he freely slices you to ribbons.
A limited
example of pattern fixation is the first few UFCs where strikers had to
deal for the first time with combination striker/grapplers and had a
hard time of it because they were presented with patterns they had never
trained before.
The Trap of relying on the "Perfect Technique"
One
approach used in "street" self-defense systems is to effectively
"pre-empt" any attack with a singular devastating technique that,
through endless repetition, is expected to work "against anything."
However, things rarely work out the way you want them to. Attacks can be
feinted or change in midstream or come from an unexpected angle. In
short, you can almost guarantee that
the environmental and sensory stimuli you are presented with in any
given attack will be different from those with which you trained, most
especially because you are hard-wiring in a fixed set of automatic
responses. You actually sabotage the possibility of mounting an
effective response with this method of training.
Another
approach is to bombard the enemy with a storm of preset attacks hoping
some will hit their mark, but the problems outlined above are only
multiplied by the number of set techniques applied. In essence, you as
the defender are not responding directly to what is actually being
thrown at you moment to moment, but are gambling that your responses
will follow a certain "movie script" in your memory.
Talk about the opposite of a Zen Mushin mindset!
Granted, if
you are stronger and faster than your attacker you can make almost
anything work, but how do you know this will be the case? Not to
mention, criminals don't go out of their way looking for victims that
will give them a hard time.
And the Most Delusional Trap of All...
This one is so bad you might actually think we're making it up.
Imagine spending thousands of dollars for a weekend of training where the super-secret, self-defense holy grail is ultimately revealed to be: "you must hurt your attacker!"
Even the most ignorant among us would say "Well, Duh!"
Now of course if
you're among those who think the police are there to protect you or
save you from violence, it's vital to know that cops are really nothing
but "The Mop-Up Crew". When you have seconds to live, the police are
only minutes (or hours) away, so you really are on your own.
Now this by itself helps to create a "Warrior Mindset", which is critical.
But what if we told you that the way to achieve this was to practice self-defense as if bad guys DIDN'T block or
hit BACK, that they just STAND there and LET you hit them in the
throat, eyes or whatever and allow you to do your kung fu magic on them?
You'd say we were nuts. And you'd be right.
Yet this is one of THE most popular self-defense training methodologies out there right now. One person (the bad guy) stands defenseless and motionless while the "good guy" throws pulled strikes at his vital areas. We're not kidding.
Wait,
I'm sorry, did I say "motionless"? Actually what the "bad guy" is
supposed to do in this method of training is "act" like he's being hurt
so as to "realistically" open up other undefended vital areas for you to
skillfully strike without resistance.
"Realistically"? (I told you it
was delusional).
Don't forget:
BAD GUYS HIT BACK
BAD GUYS DEFEND THEMSELVES
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they were immune to bullets fired from European guns because of their magic "chi." |
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If you want to practice realism, how about this:
1. Train to hit when you're unaware, off-balance and out of position.
2. Train to hit for when you MISS...
Or the enemy BLOCKS...
Or the enemy hits YOU first...
Or the enemy laughs at your first strike and then rips your throat out...
Or any one of an infinite number of unplanned, chaotic responses because that's what real violence looks like.
But don't take our word for it. Take it from a forensic crime scene
expert who worked thousands of homicides in New York studying blood
spatter patterns to determine exactly how people fought and died...and
sometimes survived.
The solution to all the traps above would be to
develop adaptability rather than fixed responses. But is that even
possible? |
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THE FANTASY:
A
100 pound woman will be able to fight off a 180 pound male attacker
from an MMA "guard" position, escape and then mount him for a
"ground and pound" counter attack! |
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Rather than seeking the ground, if you inadvertently fall or are
thrown, roll to keep your head away from his feet and kick at his shins
or throat, whichever is closer. Armed with steel-toe sneakers
(available from sites like steeltoesshoes.com) your legs are stronger than virtually anyone's arms.
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NOT GRAPPLE. Every second you are locked to a stronger attacker exposes
you to more danger and having your head stomped into hamburger by his
friends. Kick, roll and run. |
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Achieving Adaptability
There
are many newer styles that recognize all this and attempt to increase
adaptability by combining many different systems to give you a full,
rounded approach to self-defense.
You may be taught as few as
three or as many as ten different martial arts styles and be expected to
blend them and make their respective techniques available to your
nervous system whenever called upon in a chaotic attack. Again, this
mental logjam can quickly lead to disaster as too many brain cells are
forced under extreme stress to access too many techniques. After a
lifetime of training, a master may eventually dissolve the techniques
and get them to come out appropriately and automatically when necessary,
but think about it: isn't this approach to training adaptability upside
down?
This is the paradox that former forensic crime scene expert John Perkins took on with his creation of Guided Chaos
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At the core
of all Guided Chaos principles is this over-arching theme: Why not teach
methods of adaptability and improvisation from the very beginning and
eliminate patterned training altogether?
John Perkins'
experiences as a former forensic crime scene expert provided plenty
of material to support his concepts. Working with Dr. Peter Pizzola (now
the Director of the NYPD Crime Lab), Perkins analyzed blood spatter
patterns at scenes of horrific violence, determining how people fought
and died. Prior to this, Perkins worked the Yonkers NY “backup squad”,
responding to violent felonies in progress, often involving drug-crazed
psychopaths. He also engaged in illegal pit-fighting on the docks of
Newark and New Orleans pre-UFC, where the only rule was “don’t kill the
other guy.” |
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Guided Chaos does away with endlessly repetitious
technique and rules-based sport fighting and instead focuses on the
development of combat attributes applicable to any situation without
locking the mind onto fixed patterns. It does this by developing 4
principles of motion and their related attributes via unique,
uncooperative, solo and partner drills:
1. Looseness training
makes you unavailable to the attacker's strikes as well as unavoidable
as you learn to snake around his defenses. It also develops even more
power because it eliminates the antagonistic muscle tension created
through over reliance on sheer muscular strength. Looseness means
survival--which is why police reports often show it is the drunk in the
car wreck rather than the sober individual who survives—because he was
inebriated and loose! |
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Looseness Drills (such
as "rolling the Ball") teach your body to mold to incoming energy so
that you can move in, hit and absorb strikes rather than block them with
brute strength (which you may not have anyway--plus, even if you do, there's always
someone stronger than you!) and predictable, inflexible patterned
techniques. |
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Non-cooperative Dynamic Balance Training under stress improves combat attributes. |
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Body Unity Drills
such as "Starting the Mower" train you to align every joint in the body
while balanced so that you can get your entire body behind every
movement (no matter how chaotic) without muscular tension. |
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2. Balance Training
enables you to hit from anywhere to anywhere with power and accuracy
and to avoid being hit through extreme looseness and still maintain
combat readiness.
3. Body Unity
trains you to deliver any strike with any weapon of the body with full
body momentum and plyometric power no matter how chaotic the violence.
4. Sensitivity Training
is the absolute key to combat adaptability because it takes you out of
your logical brain and puts you "in the moment" as you learn to feel and
flow with your attacker's movements, sensing his intentions and
openings and sealing yours. “Feeling” is critical because eye-hand
coordination is just too slow for the high-speed mayhem of nose-to-nose
fighting. At close range, strikes are flying outside your field of
vision and beyond your ability to counter. Similarly, openings are
created that you will never see—or defend. The best grapplers rely on
“feel” to assess moment-by-moment their opponent’s total body
positioning, attacks and defenses. Tai chi masters use tactile
sensitivity to discover strike entries and to seal their own. However, both tai ch and grappling train these attributes from the beginning in either a regimented, classical or sportive context. The problem is that real violence is chaos.
The
best analogy to explain all this relates to Jazz Music. No great Jazz
soloist ever learned how to improvise by endlessly practicing repeated
fixed patterns, scales, and other robotic exercises. They learn to
improvise by IMPROVISING, trying at every musical opportunity to flow
and sense the emotion and rhythm of the music so they can, when called
upon, "pull something out of thin air"--and keep right on going. “OK”,
you say. “But don't great jazz musicians have to know how to play
first?” Yes, but there are many ways to achieve basic competency (like
playing "Mary Had a Little Lamb") but robotic practice will never take
them beyond that.
The correlation to self-defense is that
although Guided Chaos uses the simple, deadly strikes from World War II
CQC, they are not taught dogmatically. They flow free-form and are
improvised in every response continuously.
Understand that pretty much
every serious style on earth teaches disabling strikes. The
two critical questions are: HOW do you get these strikes IN against a
fully resisting and changing defense and HOW do you adapt your defense
to a continuously changing attack?
The answer is what makes the approach of Guided Chaos fundamentally different. |
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The Totally Free-Form Contact Flow Drill
trains you to hit powerfully from anywhere to anywhere at any angle
while remaining loose, balanced and body-unitized, simultaneously
avoiding and absorbing incoming attacks while feeling new openings to
hit through. |
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But How Do You Perform Free-form, Adaptive, Unchoreographed Movements Under Extreme Stress?
Simple:
"the way you train is the way you fight"--the often-repeated pearl of
wisdom that is almost always ignored or interpreted incorrectly.
Think differently.
Train Differently.
Learn radically different movement principles to make you "invisible" to the enemy and become both "Unavailable" and "Unavoidable."
Train from the very start to be adaptive so that it fills every fiber of your being--and you will become adaptive.
Whether you train like a robot in one specific response or like a
supercomputer in thousands of specific responses--the end result will be
the same: a disastrous core-meltdown. Human beings are neither computers nor robots.
We
are creative, adaptive, living organisms and we want to develop those
human attributes to the max if we want to survive in an often chaotic
and dangerous world. |
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What Are the Best Videos for Training This Way?
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THE ATTACKPROOF COMPANION Part 1 ("Companion" to our best-selling book) outlines a simple, devastating method of self-defense called CLOSE COMBAT, proven in World War II and improved upon by former forensic crime scene expert John Perkins. Close Combat provides the simple striking tools that the far more advanced GUIDED CHAOS builds upon. Although there are similar systems out there in the Reality-Based field, there are key differences between them and Guided Chaos' Close Combat (now called guided Chaos Combatives), and if you start off on the wrong foot you can seriously set back your eventual development in Guided Chaos. Available as a DVD or Instant On Demand Download.
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THE ATTACKPROOF COMPANION Part 2 ("Companion" to our best-selling book) dives right into the heart of Guided Chaos with all the fundamental explanations of principles and radically different combat methodologies and drills. Without Part 2, many things on the other DVDs may not make much sense and it'll take far longer to become competent. Available as a DVD or Instant On Demand Download. |
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THE ATTACKPROOF COMPANION Part 3 (IN THE EYE OF THE STORM) is a gigantic, 6 hour, 3 DVD set and unbelievably detailed and comprehensive, taking all the material you've learned in Parts 1 and 2 and applying it to a devastating and completely free-form method of self-defense that's taught as a virtual private lesson. And that's the reason we recommend this sequence of DVDs: because in order to learn to be completely free and ADAPTIVE in your self-defense so that you can IMPROVISE what you need, when you need it (instead of hoping that rigid, robotic, patterned training will work) we have had to turn the whole typical training paradigm on its head. And for those who think Guided Chaos looks different or "unusual," well, they are correct. There IS a "method to our madness" and it is deadly serious.
Available as a DVD or Instant On Demand Download.
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GUIDED CHAOS:
"Brilliant Self Defence System.
I cannot get enough of it."
"The
only Combat System Doug now trains in directly as of 2014 is Guided
Chaos Combatives and Guided Chaos Adaptive Defense. His teacher is the
European and Chief Instructor for the UK Michael James from Unity
Martial Arts Academy."
"Doug
is of the honest opinion that GC Combatives and GC Adaptive Defense is
the most practical form of real world self protection he has studied to
date."
---Sifu Doug Clark, Instructor Level Technician of Ving Tsun and Practitioner of Tai Ji Quan www.functionalcombatsystems.com |
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ENDORSEMENTS:
Blitz magazine article on Guided Chaos Australia Seminar:
"Let me start by saying I thought I'd seen all that the world of 'reality-based self defence' had to offer, so for the easily bored out there, I'll cut to the chase. What I witnessed on the weekend of 26 and 27 March is the closest thing I've come across that resembles a modern-day, reality-based martial art and not just another 'combatives system'. Does it work? Hell, yeah! I got my arse well and truly kicked and at times felt like I was in the middle of a Jason Bourne fight scene."
--Clive Girdham, former Senshido and Geoff Thompson instructor
[Excerpted from the exclusive review of the Guided Chaos Australia Seminar in the Aug. print edition of BLITZ MAGAZINE: Australia's #1 Martial Arts magazine volume 25, issue 6
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"Guided Chaos is the only training in my 15 plus years of Corrections that translates into real world application, period."
"Guided Chaos is the only thing that has worked for me in real life
situations. Unless you are 6'3" and 285 lbs of muscle, most of the
Defensive Tactics stuff (ok all of the Defensive Tactics stuff) will get
you hurt. And even if you are that big and strong, there is always
someone bigger and stronger and there may be a lot of them. Nothing like
dealing with one guy and it turns into a free for all with all his
buddies. This is where you literally need to 'adapt or die' and Guided
Chaos is the only training in my 15 plus years of Corrections that
translates into real world application, period."
---Bob Miller, Corrections Officer at the largest facility in Oregon |
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"...through watching videos put out by attackproof.com, and by
reading Attackproof, the book, I have learned real survival skills.
These skills have been learned...at an exponentially higher practical
yield-per-hour training rate than any other martial art classes or
seminar I've ever attended, or ever even heard rumor of."
--Matthew Shoener, Police Officer, Scranton, PA
"The Companion Video Part One is stupendous!
A godsend of detail for out-of-state practitioners."
--Mark from Chicago
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