Subject: Attackproof.com Newsletter # 131f
GUIDED CHAOS NEWS #131:
LONGER THAN EXPECTED: THE CONTACT FLOW WORKSHOP DVD...
Just thought everyone should know that we screwed up on this DVD...
except that we screwed up in a good way. It's printed on the DVD disc and case
(and also on our website for that matter) that the Contact Flow workshop DVD with
Grandmaster Tim Carron is 44 minutes long. We goofed--it's actually a total of
1 hour and 44 minutes long. So you get a whole 'nother sixty minutes of Tim wackin'the crap out of everybody else! How's that for a treat?YOUR QUESTIONS...
QUESTION:
I was given several Attackproof DVDs for my
birthday and am beginning to train from them. I have a slight background
in Taijiquan & was thinking about taking it up again. Would training in
Taijiquan be likely to help me with the body mechanics from GC?
ANSWER:
My own opinion is that if you're already skilled in tai chi, than GC will
open up and explain many things you've been seeking in tai chi as well as
provide avenues you'd probably never experience otherwise. However, if you're just
starting tai chi, it just might confuse you and in fact waste your time
and slow your development. That being said, if you have no training
partners, I'd recommend staying in a tai chi school and trying to recruit
some training partners from your fellow classmates so you can "experiment"
on them during push hands. Of course this won't be possible if they don't
have open minds because altho we use identical looseness, body unity and
sensitivity principles, their expression will be far different. And our
balance principles (as far as hitting from anywhere to anywhere) are
beyond anything found in typical tai chi push hands practice.
--Matt KovskyRULES FOR A GUNFIGHT:
My Memories of BCT at Ft. Benning
by Drill Sergeant (E-7) Joe B. Fricks
"RULES FOR A GUN, KNIFE, BASEBALL BAT OR FIST FIGHT"
1. Forget about knives, bats and fists. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at
least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. Bring four times the
ammunition you think you could ever need.
2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammunition is cheap - life
is expensive. If you shoot inside, buckshot is your friend. A new wall is
cheap - funerals are expensive
3. Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.
4. If your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough or
using cover correctly.
5. Move away from your attacker and go to cover. Distance is your friend.
(Bulletproof cover and diagonal or lateral movement are preferred.)
6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a semi or
full-automatic long gun and a friend with a long gun.
7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or
tactics. They will only remember who lived.
8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and
running. Yell "Fire!" Why "Fire"? Cops will come with the Fire Department,
sirens often scare off the bad guys, or at least cause then to lose
concentration and will.... and who is going to summon help if you yell
"Intruder," "Glock" or "Winchester?"
9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent
on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun.
10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to
beat you to death with it because it is empty.
11. Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. Have a plan.
13. Have a back-up plan, because the first one won't work. "No battle plan
ever survives 10 seconds past first contact with an enemy."
14. Use cover or concealment as much as possible, but remember, sheetrock
walls and the like stop nothing but your pulse when bullets tear through them.
15. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
16. Don't drop your guard.
17. Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees. Practice reloading
one-handed and off-hand shooting. That's how you live if hit in your "good"
side.
18. Watch their hands. Hands kill. Smiles, frowns and other facial expressions
don't (In God we trust. Everyone else keep your hands where I can see them.)
19. Decide NOW to always be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.
20. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.
21. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet if
necessary, because they may want to kill you.
22. Be courteous to everyone, overly friendly to no one.
23. Your number one option for personal security is a lifelong commitment to
avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.
24. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not
start with anything smaller than "4".
25. Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. "All skill is in vain when an Angel blows
the powder from the flintlock of your musket." At a practice session, throw
you gun into the mud, then make sure it still works. You can clean it later.
26. Practice shooting in the dark, with someone shouting at you, when out of
breath, etc.
27. Regardless of whether justified of not, you will feel sad about killing
another human being. It is better to be sad than to be room temperature.
28. The only thing you EVER say afterwords is, "He said he was going to kill
me. I believed him. I'm sorry, Officer, but I'm very upset now. I can't say
anything more. Please speak with my attorney." [It's actually better to just say
"speak with my attorney." --editor's note]
Finally, Drill Sergeant Frick's Rules For Un-armed Combat.
1: Never be unarmed.
2: If you have your hands, your feet, your mind and your Spirit as an American
Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine or Coastie, you are never unarmed.
[And of course we must add 3: Learn to fight bare-handed because a gun is useless
if you can't get it out!]
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