GUIDED CHAOS NEWS #145

ANNOUNCEMENTS: • NYC SEMINAR 3/21 WITH GRANDMASTER PERKINS Guided Chaos internal concepts applied to simple combatives (the material covered in the last Manhattan seminar). This would be a fantastic opportunity to parlay what you've already learned into the far more advanced Guided Chaos --and learn it from its creator. PRICE: $45 (cash at the door only)--an incredible bargain for a 3 hour seminar covering self defense info available nowhere else. Sunday March 21, 2010 11:00- 2:00 PM. LOCATION: Chelsea Studios Room #503 5th floor 151 W 26th NY, NY All attendees who order a DVD from our website by midnight 3/23 get free shipping! (Don't forget to fill in sign up sheet). NEW GUIDED CHAOS "ADAPTIVE DEFENSE" T-SHIRTS Black, 100% heavyweight cotton t-shirts with the unique, trademarked Guided Chaos logo (designed by Master John Perkins in 1987) on the front. The two outer rings represent the eternal circle of life and the principle of return. The jagged square is Native American, symbolizing lightning, mountains and the pinnacle of achievement. The four pairs of rectangles represent the four directions and the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water. The Yin Yang symbol in the center, which embodies the inter-relationship of all opposing forces in the universe, ties all the symbols together. PRICE: $20 U.S. plus shipping and handling.  Stay in touch--check out the official Guided Chaos Facebook page.

YOUR QUESTIONS:

QUESTION ON HOSTILE AWARENESS DRILL: I'm about 5'5''. I was practicing the Hostile Awareness drill when walking in a mall and sizing people up with potential attacks and how I would respond. If confronted with an attacker that's 6'4'', how would Guided Chaos deal with this and how to apply dropping energy? ANSWER: 1) Use your awareness: Don't let it happen in the first place. Maintain your Personal Comfort Zone (a 4-5 foot circle around you that no stranger is allowed to enter without permission). Practice the casual Jack Benny "ready" stance (a non-threatening posture that nevertheless puts you in a position to both defend against a front or rear attack while readying your pre-emptive or counter-attack.) 2) You're in a public place: scream "fire!" 3) Run. 4) If NONE of the above is possible, attack the attacker: Low shin kick (hopefully with steel-toed shoes) followed by eye gouges or throat strikes. Dropping energy is applied to all strikes. Once initial contact is made, we cannot give you a "blow-by-blow" plan for fighting. That is the strategic error of most styles and it's not how violence works in the real world. GC training will help you to flow and adapt to whatever changes happen (and remember that change is the RULE, not the exception). The more you train, the better you can adapt. QUESTION ON DROPPING: In reference to the dropping drills - -are there any signs - feelings - I should be aware of that will let me know I am on the right track ? ANSWER: The best indication that you are dropping correctly comes from the "Ball Compression" drill in our book and Part 1 DVD. If you follow those guidelines explicitly you should be on the right track. This basically involves relaxation, instantaneous explosion (tension), followed by relaxation. The tension lasts a microsecond. If you do it right, the reflection back into your shoulder will feel like a jackhammer. BALL COMPRESSION DRILL (Copyright 2009 From Attack Proof 2nd edition. All rights reserved and enforced.) This develops the no-inch punch from extremely close range, where most fighting ends up. The beauty of these strikes is that they require no chambering or pulling back of any kind. This drill develops body unity, balance, focus, relaxation, and most important, full-power dropping.  1.  Take an old tennis ball and find a fat tree trunk or telephone pole.  2.  Select any tool, for example, a palm strike, and place the ball in your hand against the tree.  3.  Orient your body using the principles of body unity into some rather strangely angled strike, such as might occur in a melee. You could even stand on one leg.  4.  Hold the configuration, breathe deep into your belly, and relax your entire body— muscles, joints, and mind—while palming the ball against the tree as lightly as possible.  5.  Now, as if you sneezed or coughed from the soles of your feet through all the joints of your body and out your hand, drop so the tennis ball is instantaneously and explosively compressed.  6.  change the angle and location of the strike and repeat.  7.  Then change the tool (the palm is the easiest; chops are a lot harder). Try using your fist, elbow, shoulder, knee, and foot. Remember to be relaxed, balanced, and sensitive when you practice this drill. If you are not completely relaxed, you will have no power. Muscle tension will have you fighting your own body’s mass. Even if you are unusually strong, you will not compress the ball as much as when you drop correctly. If you aren’t completely balanced, you will actually blast yourself away from the tree. If you aren’t completely sensitive, the ball will shoot out of your hand due to the tree’s curved surface. If you aren’t properly aligned, your power will be nil. If you practice this drill five minutes a day, you will increase the availability and effectiveness of your dropping strikes. When you do use dropping strikes against an opponent, the shock waves will reverberate inside the assailant without actually moving him. Because of splashing energy, they cause internal damage from their concussive force. This is effective when you’re grappling with a larger opponent, especially when your strikes are slipped inside the opponent’s arms and are directed against the five vital zones: eyes, throat, spine, groin, and kidneys. WHICH DVDS WILL HELP YOU MASTER THE ABOVE CONCEPTS?     THE ATTACKPROOF COMPANION PART 1 With or without our best-selling book, the ATTACKPROOF COMPANION DVD SERIES is the essential stand-alone DVD guide to the art of GUIDED CHAOS. PART 1 provides the basic weaponry and foundation of Guided Chaos and is a brutal, World War II-based Close Combat system all by itself (enhanced with basic level-one Guided Chaos principles). Learn from a veteran of over 100 documented brutally violent life-or-death confrontations what works and what doesn't. Also contains street smarts and awareness tips so you can avoid violence in the first place. Almost 2 1/2 hours on 2 DVDs with skills and drills found nowhere else. THE ATTACKPROOF COMPANION PART 2 THE 5 PRINCIPLES OF GUIDED CHAOS AND HOW TO TRAIN THEM. Unlike in the Dojo, REAL fights are never choreographed. Your self-defense shouldn't be either. If you've been programmed by training a specific response to a specific attack, your self-defense will FAIL if the attack changes by even one inch from the way you've trained. Your unrehearsed response will be your only response. It is far better to develop the ability to improvise any strike from any position spontaneously with power, accuracy and balance than to rely on rigid choreographed responses. Based on our best-selling book, this jam-packed follow-up to the Attackproof Companion Part One contains highly detailed demonstrations of all the drills and principles that are most vital to your development in GC (including some that are NOT in the book).

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