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I'm currently training under a traditional Karate system that stresses putting your hip into all your techniques. This is really stressed during the practice of Kata. My instructor is from Okinawa Japan. A while back I studied under another karate system that stressed that all power comes from the midsection. We were conditioned to develop accumulative energy. I notice your system stresses "dropping energy." I'm confused...
ANSWER:
In GC you use the hips and midsection--but NOT by themselves. As is taught in internal arts (tai chi, etc.), power starts at the feet and threads itself through the "9 Pearl Gates" (floor, foot, ankle, knee, hips, spine, shoulder, elbow, hand) in succession. This is the same principle used to hit a baseball or tennis ball. Using just the hips, in our view, leads to poor balance and disrupts power and body unity.
Dropping basically loads power into the feet and releases it like a spring up thru the "9 Gates". This is similar to how you crack a whip at the handle and send the wave out to the tip (while simultaneously staying loose). Aside from the foot-to-hand connection however, GC's power delivery is still markedly different from tai chi's. In tai chi (in general) you compress down and then drive upwards (against gravity) to push or hit.
In GC, you "Drop" rapidly (with gravity) so that you either hit with full body weight while augmenting a strong root (simple Dropping) or you literally ricochet your Dropping Energy off the floor and hit on the rebound (advanced Dropping). This is different from tai chi fajing where you are actively up-unweighting against the ground as opposed to reflecting plyometrically off the ground. The former can compromise your root if you are simultaneously being pushed by the enemy because you are now actually less connected to the ground. This is why you don't see NFL running backs leaping over the offensive line into the end zone anymore because while they are airborne they can be spun like a child's toy and dropped on their necks. By contrast, in GC, your motion is similar to the way a pit bull drops into its prey as its jaws punch the throat.
Do
you own either Attackproof Companion Part 1 or the Combatives dvds (or Instant Downloads)? Full
explanation, demos and drills of dropping energy are within. If you watch the videos or come to a class you'll get it in 1 minute. Hope this helps.
QUESTION:
Thanks for offering answers to questions... I have a concern, in a real fight, we, using Guided Chaos, punch so much that I am concerned of getting tired. Is it a conditioning issue or we should technically end the fight fast in a real fight so we would not get tired? Thanks for answering in advance!
ANSWER:
You
want to end the fight as quickly, savagely and efficiently as possible.
Most of our students are older and can't go 9 rounds with the
enemy...and shouldn't have to. Gouge the eyes, crush the trachea; use GC
to access these and avoid the same.
QUESTION (CONTINUED):
Thanks! You are right about a quick ending! These days I notice more and more people are so rude. Especially, while driving and getting a parking space. I mean...you wait for a space then some punk makes a quick move from the opposite direction swerve around the car backing out to take my space. Then I told the punk that wasn't cool from my car and he lied by saying he saw me circling the parking lot for a space. I mean it's not worth getting into a beef cause it is your word against his word and it would be a mutual combat... I've come to the conclusion to not sweat the small stuff but act when there's big stuff against you. Besides, I still carry a gun and don't want to use it if I don't have to. Take care!
ANSWER:
This
may not seem macho coming from a martial arts school but it is much
better to avoid getting into altercations of any kind in the first
place. I know--we want to stand up for ourselves--but you NEVER KNOW
what a situation can turn into--or WHO you're really dealing with. Avoid
road rage responses even if you have to swallow your pride. That way
when you REALLY have to fight there will be no moral ambiguity and you
can rip his eyes out or blow his brains out without regret. And have a
good self defense lawyer on speed dial...
QUESTION:
I am ordering some of your product for my wife.
What products do you have that will assist with common street holds and chokes that one may face on the street? Peace to you all. Thanks.
ANSWER:
Thanks for your interest.
All you need to know about chokes and holds is this:
First:
1. Don't let them happen in the first place (awareness, maintain Personal Comfort Zone, etc.)
2. There are no useful, fancy ways of "breaking" chokes and holds against a strong determined attacker once they've locked down. Forget the elegant, dance-like moves you see on the web. In fact there's little you can do against an actual assassination that's not picked up on prior to contact. BUT--if you have an instant of awareness right before contact where you see something out of the corner of your eye or hear or feel something, then training the "Fright Reaction (Attackproof Companion Part 1 or the Combatives dvds (or Instant Downloads) can disrupt or disable an attack by cracking them in the face while it simultaneously protects your neck, eyes, and throat and augments your balance, PLUS it gives you a platform from which to explode into a barrage of vicious strikes (like the "MLB"--see above videos). But if they are in the process of locking down the choke or hold (you have 1-2 seconds max) and don't want to kill you outright and either want to rape, rob, kidnap or intimidate you, the best responses are the simplest: gouge the eyes and crush the trachea if available. Bite, scratch, stomp, tear into any accessible flesh. Learn to do it from every angle. Even better: have a pen handy that can be grabbed and driven into the crook of their elbow...or their eyes. All the fancy moves and techniques you see on the web are B.S., which is why we don't feature them much on our dvds. There's other simple stuff that can be practiced as well. In the meantime, have your wife watch this:
Women's Self Defense
And also all of our Martial Myths video series.
Hope this helps.
QUESTION:
Regarding GC Techniques:
1). I spoke to one of my classmates [in my school] about GC's non-cooperative training methods right from the start. His reply was that although your opponents/attackers are uncooperative in real situations, cooperative training is necessary, especially in arts focusing on joint locks and
manipulations...[in] the very beginning in order for people to learn the techniques correctly. How are GC's uncooperative training methods applied in the practitioners' introductory courses? By doing contact flow/free form drills?
2). While viewing the videos, I saw some rolling techniques on your back, like Master Ridenhour's rolling like a log in one scene. Does GC teach break falls and rolls? Although the falls and rolls are extremely useful once you have mastered and executed these techniques correctly (even when you accidentally fall from a bike), I have difficulties mastering and executing them correctly. Even though I have only been training in [this system] once a week for two hours for a little over a year, despite doing my best, I feel as if I could never master the techniques and do them correctly. The worst part is that it does not help that I'm such a slow learner by nature!!!
- If GC does teach breaks falls, front and back rolls; are the techniques similar to [my system]? If they are, is it difficult for an average learner to master and execute the techniques correctly?
3). From studying GC's printed and visual materials, I see some conceptual parallels with GC and [my system] (please correct me if I'm wrong): Maximum Efficiency with Minimum Effort, Blending with the Attackers' Energy, and Re-Directing the Attackers' Energy. However,
trying to reach maximum efficiency with minimum effort feels impossible since the techniques and training methods are so complex! I have enormous difficulties mastering even very simple joint manipulation techniques due to the precision and finesse required to successfully execute them. From seeing how my instructor executes the techniques, I know that the fundamental techniques imparted...and Joint Manipulations can be very effective, especially if you have to restrain someone. Also, from viewing the photos and video clips, it seemed like GC has techniques similar to [my system].
Despite feeling frustrated and waning of enthusiasm...the reasons why I still continue to attend the classes are because: I do like the instructor (he is very knowledgeable; over 30+ years of experience, open-minded, organized, and consistent). Plus, his class is the best martial arts course that the Columbus Parks and Recreation has to offer, especially at a very affordable price of $40 for eight weeks. Unfortunately, the Columbus Parks and Recreation does not offer much martial arts classes at all. From what I have heard, other martial arts classes are disorganized with flighty instructors!
I'm fully aware that this very last statement is completely irrelevant to GC. But, I greatly appreciate it if you can give me tips on how to maintain enthusiasm, concentration, and focus for my current [classes] because this is the best martial arts options available to me as GC is not available in the Columbus Area. (HELP :(((( !!!!)
I know that the questions above are long and take some time to answer. However, I greatly appreciate it if you can answer them or give me some useful suggestions at your convenience.
My Warmest Regards...
ANSWER:
1. Unlike any other system, GC begins to teach you uncooperative, adaptive movement right from the start. This is vital because once you start training your nervous system to react in patterned ways it is very hard to fix it.
At the same time we teach you simple, brutal striking based on World War II combatives that has been simplified further and improved using Guided Chaos dynamic motion principles. This is so that, if need be, you could use them to save your life on Day One.
2. You can see the Cincinnati Ohio training group by registering and posting using the links here.
They often meet at the 5 White Tigers school.
3. Cooperative training is POISON for your life-and-death defensive development. Period.
The only formatted exercises we have are for developing dynamic, generic internal energy ATTRIBUTES and not techniques. Patterned techniques will get you killed in real life chaotic violence.
The venerated "precision" of joint locks is utterly useless in real violence (except maybe on a slow-moving drunk). In just one example, a former colleague of GM Perkins who was a hand-to-hand tactics instructor for the Yonkers PD, was actually lifted off the ground by his joint lock and thrown into a brick wall by an enraged perp. This
is why joint locks were never taught to U.S. soldiers in WWII--instead they were taught ruthless open-hand striking methods to fight Japanese soldiers in the Pacific who were all
presumed to be karate and judo experts.
4. Break falls only break YOU. They are suicidal on concrete. The reason you can't master them is because your primal animal instincts KNOW they are nonsense. Who survives car crashes where occupants are ejected thru windshields and thrown violently to the ground? Drunks. That's because they are loose. So we teach looseness and rolling, mobility, evasion and ground attack principles. They are so simple a child can do them--which is actually the way children play anyway.
5. There is no correlation whatsoever between GC and [arts that emphasize complex throws, break falls and joint manipulation techniques]. One of our black belts is a 5th degree in [your system] and he confirms this. He used to be remarkably easy to handle--no longer. He now goes back to his dojo and annihilates his masters there--but they don't know what he's doing because he hides his GC knowledge from them. If you can practice stealth GC within your school, that might be beneficial but I doubt it because the methodologies are so contradictory.
Again: GC has no techniques, other than the simple strikes from WWII Close Combat. It has more of an outward similarity to tai chi and bagua, but that is coincidental because it is actually very different (just ask our tai chi instructor students), essentially because they focus relentlessly on patterned technique training, which, as we teach, is poison to your natural adaptive response-ability.
The longer you practice a choreographed system of self-defense, the more it will mess you up--unless you can find people within it that are open-minded enough to work with free-form (usually impossible and potentially dangerous).
I recommend you read our FAQs page for ideas on how to train GC within some arts (like Systema, tai chi, WC or JKD).
I hope this helps and thanks for your enthusiasm. If you train with the Cincinnati GC group it'll be a real eye-opener.
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