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 GUIDED CHAOS TRAINING TIPS #92
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We received a lot of input on our website and it was hard to pick but we went with Dale because we could actually do everything he suggested (eventually!) With our current software we can't implement some of the excellent ideas that were sent to us (like having a subscriber video lesson feature) but that may be changing....
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One idea that many suggested was having our guys go head to head with other arts in video clips. Now if we can figure out a way to do that without doctors and lawsuits we'll do it.

GUIDED CHAOS PROMOTION AND CLOSE COMBAT CERTIFICATION CRITERIA COMPLETED
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YOUR QUESTIONS
Q. Dear Sirs, I have been trying to implement the RHEM training in my workouts. Despite having the Attackproof book and Combat Cond. DVD, I am having trouble figuring it out beyond a few moves. I\'m interested in all the variables possible, and more indepth info on the exercise--Please help--thank you.

A. To answer, here's a sneak preview excerpt from the upcoming 2nd edition of our book:

Relationship of Human Energy to Movement (RHEM)

When you combine slow, deep breathing, the “Box Step” (chapter 5), the “Ninja Walk,” and “Vacuum Walk” (chapter 5), “Polishing the Sphere” (I, II, III), and “Washing the Body” drills, you are performing the relationship of human energy to movement exercise (RHEM). RHEM looks like a tai chi form, but the methodology is different. With a form, you try to imbue patterned movements with qualities that are energetic and combative. After many years, the form is supposed to dissolve, and its essence become available to you if you get into an altercation.

RHEM is a more potent form of learning because instead of training fixed, patterned movements, you’re teaching your subconscious to become comfortable with spontaneous, random motion—the kind you would use in a real fight. As we’ve alluded to previously, you give your nervous system what it needs from the beginning for combative development instead of programming it for hesitation. You develop creativity, governed only by guided chaos principles.

You perform the movements very slowly, doing the same things you would do in a real fight, concentrating on looseness, body unity, balance, and sensitivity. As you perform the exercises, you will cultivate chi, because you will be integrating internal energy (breathing, visualization, and calm, focused mind), with physically coordinated, balanced, and aligned body movements. You may recall that we support the definition of chi as the “circulating point of finesse in the body” (chapter 4, page 67). As such, you will derive many of the benefits of cultivating chi without locking that point of finesse into choreographed forms. Then the chi can really flow spontaneously, the way you actually need it.
Breathe deeply, slowly, and evenly. Continue to breathe this way throughout the entire movement, exhaling as you move outward and downward.

Rise high onto one leg as you inhale deeply, simultaneously raising your other knee as high as you can. As you slowly exhale, slowly step to a new root point, anywhere you like. When you get familiar with RHEM, you should slowly step to the most challenging spot you can find. There should be a long period where you’re suspended and balanced on one leg before your foot actually touches the ground and settles in. Observe all the principles of weight transfer you’ve practiced in the “Ninja Walk” and “Vacuum Walk” drills (see chapter 5, pages 77 and 79).

3. As you inhale and rise and then exhale and step to a new root point, simultaneously and slowly do either  “Polishing the Sphere” (I, II, or III) or “Washing the Body”. Then, as you settle into your root point, slowly perform one strike of any kind or kick (it doesn’t matter which). To maintain body unity, three things should happen simultaneously:

You complete the strike.
You finish sinking into your new root.

• You do all this during one exhalation.
The slower you can do all these, the better.

4. Without pause, slowly inhale deep into your belly, rising a bit and begin to transfer to the new root point while Washing or Polishing. Suspend yourself here for a split second and then exhale, ending in a different strike. Don’t forget to try kicks, knee strikes, elbows, and head butts—everything.

If you do this exercise every day for 15 minutes, the improvements in power, balance, and looseness will be remarkable. You will imprint your subconscious with the necessary dynamics of combat instead of fixed choreography. In addition, you’ll derive all the benefits of moving meditation: inner and outer harmony, stress reduction, and low-impact aerobic conditioning.

The rising and falling emphasizes body unity and separation of the yin and yang within dropping energy. The polishing the sphere and washing the body movements are for programming your nervous system to become spontaneously evasive as it simultaneously attacks. This gets you as disengaged as possible, yet still engaged.

Feel the exhalation and let the continuous, slow dropping drive you through the entire movement. Remember, gravity is your friend. Don’t resist it. Learn to use it.

Become familiar with the sensation of “swinging” your entire body’s mass through every movement.
Keep your hands in sync with your legs. When your legs stop moving, so do your hands, whatever the relationship between them.

Throughout the entire exercise, visualize the enemy while focusing your fear, mold to him, and destroy him.

This is not a form. Creativity is king.

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