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 GUIDED CHAOS TRAINING TIPS #85
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ATTACKPROOF NEWS:

YES, IT'S DONE!
THE GUIDED CHAOS COMBAT CONDITIONING DVD.
GOES ON SALE 12/10 (or sooner...maybe...)

Watch video clip of the DVD's intro on our VIDEO CLIPS page
(it's labeled #16-Guided Chaos Combat Conditioning)

Question: "How do I work out on my own?" 
Answer: THE GUIDED CHAOS COMBAT CONDITIONING DVD.

We've got to tell you, this is one fun dvd and it really makes doing the drills and setting up a training program EASY! There should be some greatly improved practitioners out there real soon...

All the Guided Chaos drills back-to-back and non-stop on one DVD. No theory or extended explanations. Put it on, blast your stereo, follow along and work out--5 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour or longer--whatever you want-you decide! Also, many chapters end with a quick application demo of the skill just trained. Talk about practical! We can't wait for this one to be done because we all intend to use it also! Comes with an awesome Native American Music inspired soundtrack which we find extremely motivational (same kind of music we used to play in our classes back in the '80s).  Almost 2 Hours long.

SPECIAL BONUS: when you get the DVD we will send you the Combat Conditioning eBook with helpful workout tips.

(NOTE: this is a one person, solo workout DVD. Drills that require partners, elaborate equipment or are too "esoteric" for a workout video have been excluded. Full explanations and applications of principles and exercises can be found in The Companion Series DVDs).





THE GUIDED CHAOS COMBAT CONDITIONING DVD CHAPTER LIST:

BALANCE, BODY UNITY AND LOOSENESS TRAINING
Ninja Walk
Vacuum Walk
Crazy Walk
Gorilla Walk
Low Creep
Turning
Turn/Vacuum Walk
Rowing the Boat/Rolling the Ball
Rolling/Vacuum Walk
Forward-Back Rooting
Body Writing
High-Step Striking
Dry Land Swimming
Swimming/Vacuum Walk
Unity Striking

DROPPING ENERGY AND STRIKING POWER
7 Step Drop Drill
Speed Flows
Slam Bag Drills
Anywhere Strikes
Circle Clap
Swarm of Bees
Body Striking

FOOTWORK TRAINING
Foot Circles
Footwork Drills
Footwork & Kicking
Box Step
Puppeteering
Hackey-Sack

TENDON STRENGTH TRAINING
Groundfighting
Wobble Board Drills
Wobble Board Drop Step Hitting
Atomic Leg Crusher
1 Minute Push-up
Warrior Sun Pole Stance
Iso-Dynamic Exercises
Weighted Rowing the Boat
Weighted Long-Stepping
Battle Axe Box step

INTEGRATED BALANCE, BODY UNITY, LOOSENESS, SENSITIVITY & VERSATILITY TRAINING
Deep Pocketing Drills
RHEM (Relationship of Human Energy to Motion)
Washing the Body
Wash/Hackey/Vac/Ninja Walk
Polishing the Sphere
Polishing the Sphere with Spontaneous Drop Hits

Available in NTSC video format only. Approx 110 minutes. $75.00 U.S. plus shipping and handling (New York residents must pay additional 7% sales tax

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A Message from Professor Bradley Steiner ...
President, International Combat Martial Arts Federation

Please read the article that follows. It was forwarded to me by my friend,
James Jarrett. It is a repeat of virtually everything that I have been writing,
teaching, and saying for the last 30 years, and it's refreshing to see it in
print elsewhere!

Better Trained: Cop Killers or the Police Officers They Kill?

By Ken Hanson

In the first part of this series we examined how
those who dismiss criminals as being stupid are in fact themselves
acting stupid. In another example of how dangerous it can be to
underestimate the two-legged predators who walk among us, the FBI has
recently finished a five year study of cop killers and the
shootouts that took the officer’s life. While I have only seen a
summary and not the whole report from the FBI,The Force Science
Institute has published a very good synopsis of the report.

Some of the findings reinforce the deadly misconceptions the public
has about criminals. In these attacks, the criminal was found to
practice more often than the police officer, shoot more accurately
than the police officer, has more experience in using lethal force
than the officer and has the proper mindset needed to survive the
encounter.

These findings need to be a wakeup call to the public: The thugs
among us have been going through urban combat training since a very
early age, and in the typical encounter, the street predator has the advantage.


To the readers of this website and those who take responsibility for
their own safety, many of the study’s findings will not be
surprising. For instance, offenders:


Do not pick a particular firearm with any criteria in mind, instead
being stuck with what happened to be on hand.

Do not legally buy their firearms, with only one exception in the study.

Do not obtain any firearms from gun shows. -Almost exclusively chose
handguns over the infamous “assault rifles.”

Do not use accessories or equipment, such as holsters or flashlights.

Beyond these findings, which are common sense confirmations of the
reality that exists for all but the most rabid anti-gunners, some of
the findings are pretty shocking, and we should adjust our training
accordingly.

Criminals do not worry about marksmanship, stance, grip, sight
alignment or any of the other fundamentals we rely upon. Instead,
they rely most often on instinctive shooting, or “point and click.”
The key is to get rounds on target, quickly. As one cold-blooded
killer remarked, even if he shoots you in the leg, he can walk up
later after you are incapacitated and put one in your head. Despite
this, the criminals have a much greater accuracy rate than the police.

Criminals have been carrying and using firearms for far longer than
those they target, as early as since age 9 and almost all since age
12. This has given them real-life experience in the carrying and use
of guns from a very early age, and just like the young athlete out
on the basketball court until sundown, they excel at what they practice.

Criminals have been through a PhD program in mindset. Most of these
thugs have grown up without parents and have learned the lessons of
the street. For years and years, their ability to survive has
depended largely upon their willingness to do whatever it takes to
persevere in an encounter. Think about that, while your kids are
home eagerly awaiting the debut of High School Musical 2 in the
coming weeks, those who will prey on them are out experiencing life
and death encounters, and not necessarily for the first time. As an
interesting corollary to this, the thugs who have been involved in
repeated deadly encounters have probably USED force; the police who
have been involved in repeated deadly encounters often have simply
THREATENED the use of force. The police mindset is perhaps being
diluted since they often defuse the encounter without using the gun,
whereas the bad guy almost always uses the gun.

Criminals most often hide their guns in the waistband of their
pants, often near their groin. The male criminals were of a uniform
opinion that female police officers were more willing to conduct a
thorough search of their person than male officers. Beyond this, the
study found police often missed “telltales” of weapon presence on
the offender. Bulges, inappropriate clothing, constant touching of
the gun through layered clothing, blading the body away from the
officer to protect access to the gun etc.

This is very scary stuff to those of us who work 9-5 and rush home
to get the kids to soccer practice. We have so many different things
on our minds as we go through the day that often we are not in a
position to conduct ourselves appropriately from a personal security
standpoint. (Ohio’s laws on “no carry” zones do not help. Gun bans
disarm victims, not criminals.) The fact that our sworn officers are
perhaps at a training disadvantage to the bad guys should be a stark
warning to us civilians. We need to recommit ourselves and our
families to living the Warrior mindset while still being normal,
functioning members of society.

Otherwise, in an armed encounter, a concealed carry license is just
as worthless as a rabbit’s foot carried for luck.

Attorney Ken Hanson is Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative
Chair and author of The Ohio Guide to Firearm Laws.

Hope you keep this for your reference.

Best,
Brad

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YOUR QUESTIONS...

Q: I'm a big fan of the Jason Bourne movies. I particularly like the latest one "The Bourne Ultimatum". My question is related to the fight scenes in all of the movies, particularly the last one. I've watched all of the video clips on your website and it appears to me that there is a great similarity between your fighting techniques (Guided Chaos, tai chi, cqc etc) or what I think are your techniques and those portrayed by the characters in those movies. Is there a similarity or have I totally mised the point?

A: As I watched the movie from my seat in my local theater I said, in my mind, that these fighting scenes will do wonders for KCD in that the fighting scenes looked unchoreographed and extremely fast and chaotic just like a real fight. The great difference is this: The fight scenes are all greatly choreographed. In fact hardly anything resembling a real blow is thrown. Most of the action scenes are edited cut aways and additions. The stunt men and actors are moving far slower in reality and, in most cases, if you were to see actually what was happening you might think that the greatest sleight of hand was actually happening. The only similarity between the movie and KCD is that we both look very fast. The movie cuts are speeded up while in KCD our stuff is not. The fact is that we in KCD, during our videos, move a bit slower than full speed for two reasons. One is that it is too dangerous to move at full adrenaline speed. Two is that the demonstrations, although not choreographed would be too fast to be picked up by our cameras. In some of our DVDs you may notice that I may throw a series of elbow strikes as in Vol.I of the Companion series. It will look like the camera went on the fritz because the first elbow strike to the side of the head followed by a return strike to the neck looks like the video skipped some frames. The fact is that I only demonstrated a bit too fast for the camera to pick up the action fully. Another thing of interest, in the Bourne movie, is that during one of the chase scenes one of the bad guys is played by my friend Brian Smythe. He is a former student of Ik Jo Kang and I have known him for many years. He is an innovative and very talented martial artist and has been in many movies over the decades. In fact if you look at many of the Steven Segal movies and some of the Arnold movies you will see John Cenatiempo who is one of my first students when I started teaching in PS #4      Ifin Yonkers, N. Y. in 1969. Johnny C., as he is known in the business, is one of the most respected, talented and most employed of the martial art/stunt men in Hollywood.

If you look at some other movies such as The Hunted there is some knife play utilizing some stylized movements from some Phillipino or Indonesian knife/hand fighting art. This is obviously choreographed otherwise the stunt men and actors would be cut to ribbons using such techniques in reality. The movements only seem to mimic some of what you see in KCD/GC. Again, I am happy to see this type of movement portrayed which makes what we appear to be doing to have some followers. It also allows the general public to be more attuned to movement which appears chaotic and not so obviously set up like most of the martial arts movies of the past and present. I wish I had the position of an advisor in any of these exciting movies but to perform KCD/GC correctly would take far too long a learning curve for the wonderful and talented martial/stunt actors to accomplish.

Remember: in all of our demonstrations we are actually pulling the blows while our partners are simultaneously moving to absorb the movements so as not to get hurt. If the partners were not able to perform the KCD absorption movements with a great deal of sensitivity and looseness they would get hurt badly. In the cases where we are playing with the grapplers and others who do not know how to roll with the strikes at high speed we feign the strikes and just manipulate the men with delicacy and control. A drop slap to the head from someone who has drilled using the slam bag would cause serious damage to a person.

Thank you for your question and observation.

Yours, JP

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to have some MMA fighters on also to dispel some of
the grappling myths. I did what you told me to do with my
huge training partner and it worked, he was falling into strikes
left and right.
 
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