Subject: Attackproof.com Newsletter #61
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GUIDED CHAOS TRAINING TIPS #61
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ATTACKPROOF NEWS:
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"MY LESSONS WITH THE MASTERS..."
Ari Kandel's personal training Blog. Follow along on Ari's journey through Guided Chaos as he learns from KCD Master Tim Carron (John's highest level student), Lt. Col. Ridenhour and of course Grand Master Perkins. You can comment on Ari's trials and tribulations at the New Guided Chaos Forum.
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"THIS STUFF WORKS..."
"I have been a student of John Perkins since October of 1996 and this is my survival story. Several weeks prior to the confrontation I had terminated one of my employees for stealing from me. I had warned him on numerous occasions to stop but he continued to steal, finally I had no other choice but to get rid of him.
He still continued stealing my customers even though he was no longer employed. Several weeks had passed and he drove by me one day, flipped me off, and told me to F--k myself. So I followed him into a parking lot to remind him that he should not steal and that he should stay away from my business. I did not follow him to fight, but after trying to reason with this individual, the talking became arguing. This is when I realized that my pleading with him was an exercise in futility.
As I turned my back to leave the scene, he retrieved a machete from his vehicle at blinding speed and was coming at me. Remembering the John Perkins Principle "Attack the Attacker" I quickly moved in on the weapon and his body, attacking with both hands and knees. He was holding the machete with two hands at about shoulder height and through a series of strikes to the butt of the weapon and his hands, I was able to get him to release one hand, however he was still able to raise the machete above his head.
At this point I realized that this was going to be really bad if I did not take some drastic measures to end the attack. It was literally do or die, so I went for it. I was able to perform a neck manipulation by putting one hand on the back of his head while the other simultaneously struck and twisted his neck and chin. He immediately dropped the weapon and spun away falling to the floor like a ton of bricks. I booted him twice in the torso causing further damage. I then stopped attacking him upon request of a man who identified himself as a city marshal.
I would have never thought that someone I had known for several years would try to kill me. A machete is a very serious weapon, a person with little strength can cut small trees in half almost effortlessly. All of this happened in a split second, with no time to think, just react. I am convinced that what made this a successful outcome for me was being able to put myself ahead of this guy before he knew it. It was a seamless series of reactions and body alignments that prevented him from seriously cutting me and made my attack so successful. A witness said that if I did not stop him with such force he would have cut me up. His intent was obvious by the look on his face and he meant business with that damn thing.
I later saw John Perkins and thanked him for sharing his knowledge with me over the years. This training is beyond imagination, it is indescribable, just when you think you have it understood, a new door opens to another level of knowledge and training. John Perkins' talent and training techniques must be experienced and felt to be understood, words do not do it justice. The power behind these techniques is both devastating and amazing. It almost looks fake, until you experience it.
I owe John and the others in this organization a serious debt of gratitude for instructing me over the years. Admittedly I made a big mistake by following this guy into a parking lot, fortunately I walked away with nothing more than a cut on my pinkie. As for the Scumbag, he was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, battery, and menacing."
--Vin C. 3rd Degree KCD
YOUR QUESTIONS:
Q. What is your opinion of Silat and Baguazhang for self-defense? Do Baguazhang masters in China train Chinese Special Forces?
A. I'm familiar with both systems and the only draw back I find with either one of them as being applied to self defense is if the instruction focuses mostly on forms over fighting effectiveness. If practitioners focus on applying the "principles" such as balance, sensitivity, suppleness, body unity and total freedom of action and not on adhering to the rigid structure of the forms as so many do in most systems then in my view they can be applied into an effective form of fighting.
We've had our share of practitioners of these arts over the years and have found many of them to still cling to a limited understanding of the principles even though their schools teach the same basic concepts. Remember that what people are seeing in a form is but a snapshot in time for a very brief moment but in a real fight, that action is fluid and dynamic, something that gives the internal systems a major advantage over more sportive or static systems such as Karate; however this advantage can be nullified if the practitioners get caught up in the forms and cannot make the mental connection between the form and its true purpose in a real fight.
If you read our newsletter on "Balance" we cover this very thing in depth and we discuss at length why forms don't work in real fights-- it is because they are based on a reality of fighting that just does not exist. So while the free flowing nature of these internal systems is an excellent way to develop the qualities as stated above, the danger lies in thinking because you know how to "Ride the Tiger to the Mountain" as in Tai Chi or can do the "Low Creep" that this is fighting or how the fight will go down.
As for masters in China training their Special Forces I wouldn't doubt it because I know that the Chinese version of the Marine Corps incorporates martial arts training as a part of their regular training regimen and have put on some very impressive martial arts displays of brick breaking; however as to whether they can actually fight with it is another matter since there are, as we both know, many Americans who are very good at breaking things in demonstrations but short on actual fighting skill.
In truth as with other internal systems such as Tai Chi and Wing Chun these systems speak of developing all of the same qualities as we do in Guided Chaos, however often when they are applied they fall quite short because many of the practitioners do not take the ancient masters at their word. In other words, if the ancient Tai Chi masters say we must be as supple as a blade of grass with a root like an oak tree then we work to cultivate it, etc... It "is" what it "is" and we do not try to make it any more complex than it has to be.
Please re-read what I just said there because when you read "Attack Proof" and then read some of the better Tai Chi books available such as Master Waysun Liao's or Cheng Man-Ching's books or even (believe it or not) the first 25 pages of the "Tao of Jeet Kune Do," you will see the philosophy we espouse over and over, yet many practitioners ignore this sage advice and head off totally in the opposite direction of these arts.
Take Wing Chun for example. By the way it is practiced today by some (not all) with a rigid Chi Sao you would never know that it was created by a woman. Some Bagua and Tai Chi schools as well have lost their teeth because they have either become forms of exercise or the practitioners have turned them into a sport more akin to a Sumo match. On a final note, one thing I have noticed over the years is, as people who have studied other internals arts in the past see Guided Chaos more and more, it is not uncommon for them to see other aspects of the various internal arts that they have studied or seen. This is because by focusing on principles, your body and mind are free to create what you need, when you need it, adapting to whatever is going on at the time. This along with understanding the forensic reality of real fights gives us a tremendous advantage when challenged on the street and has allowed countless ordinary folks who train with us to fend off deadly attacks against them. I hope this helps!
---Lt Col Al
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quarters combat and internal energy principles.
--WILKINS F. URQUHART, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
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