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Hope everyone's having a great and safe summer! Lot of terrific questions from many of you that should help clarify your training.
QUESTION: "Can I use a knife to defend myself against an attacker with a knife?"
ANSWER:
Knife vs. knife as a defensive method is a gamble. If you're shown a knife and it's not against your body your best defense is to run. If you can't run and he shows a knife and you are able to get to your knife quickly as well as safely and show it he may change his mind. Make sure you have the mental state to use it if necessary. If he's already attacking you without warning you're finished. If he's mugging you with a knife and you can disarm him, assuming he has more than just robbery on his mind, do so immediately striking throat, eyes etc. It would usually be very difficult to bring your knife into action if it is under your shirt in your belt etc. Dueling is for movies and TV only. A better defense (other than a gun) to consider is Cane vs. Knife
QUESTION:
I was trained primarily in boxing but I do muay thai, kali and knife fighting and some other stuff. I have been for over a year now practicing Guided Chaos since I read the book and got the combat conditioning dvd and I've been training basically in just guided chaos since then. But my question is about footwook. In boxing and muay thai you pivot your feet on every strike to get your entire body behind the blows accept for your light jabs. In Guided Chaos do you pivot your feet throwing chin jabs or elbows or knees or kicks or whatever when you strike like in boxing and muay thai for maximum power or do you just keep the feet flat on the ground at all times???
ANSWER:
Great question and glad to have you aboard!
There is some twisting of the feet in GC but it is different than in these other arts.
Power generation in GC comes from Dropping (see our book and Companion Part 1 video, available as a DVD or instant On Demand Download). For those who are new to GC, Dropping is a unique, close range, Power Generation Method that requires no windup or chamber and allows you to hit repeatedly like a machine gun while maintaining balance (read this article for more info).
You can Drop into both feet (no twist), the other foot (possible twist) or the same foot (no twist). You Drop when you do the Rocket Step (see above book and dvd) with a slight rear foot twist. You multi-Drop with the MLB Step (Middle Line Backer) with no twist. When you kick in GC however, you never twist the feet because you expose yourself to catastrophic knee damage.
Many martial systems use double foot twists/pivots for power generation. This is very limiting because it doesn't use full Body Unity accelerated by gravity and driving from the root leg. Some systems use the hip twist with the same built in limitations. And of course hitting just with arm strength is the worst.
Keeping the foot flat gives good rooting and potential power transfer but it's meaningless without Dropping and Driving from the root.
Muay Thai may give full Body Unity but at the expense of balance and over commitment (note the spinning on roundkicks and relying on the opponent's balance when kneeing while clasping their head) which in a fight for your life can mean death. In a sportive match you can spin past on a round kick and not get kicked in the groin or fall and have a boot stomp your neck. You can hold the opponent's neck on a knee attack because he's not going to head butt you. If you held the neck of a much larger and stronger opponent in a different weight class and he just stood up it would pull you off your feet. In Sport this doesn't matter because there are rules, you're only fighting one person and no one is trying to kill you. If you knee in a fight for your life you want your hands free so you can simultaneously gouge out his eyes.
In GC we "contain the over-travel" and "recycle our root" like a jack hammer while still delivering full power amplified by plyometric rebound (Dropping).
Hope this helps. Try to come to a class in NY and you'll understand all of this in a 1/2 hour and have it for life!
QUESTION:
When you're washing the body [key drill from the Attackproof Companion Part 2 video, available as a DVD or instant On Demand Download] do you have to pretend there's a pea in between your hands and arms and body or can you just wash?
ANSWER:
Great question. The "pea" is just a visualization to make sure that your self contact is as light as possible, barely skimming the hair on your skin (if you have any) and getting out of your own way while never losing contact. This is because many new students press hard against themselves, turning the exercise into an isometric or high tension "kata" like Sanchin.
Remember, the sensitivity and looseness in Washing needs to carry over to Contact Flow [multiple partner free-flow sparring] and you want to get maximum information from the minimum pressure so that your movements remain invisible to the attacker. You can't do this if you push--Contact Flow and fighting for your life is not like tai chi push hands or Japanese Sumo. You want to read and elude the enemy's movements and penetrate and destroy him undetected (like Native American "Counting Koo"). This is why we used to call GC "Ghostfist" and why we say that you want the attacker to appear on your radar screen but not vice verse.
QUESTION:
I asked a question about footwork and striking a month or so ago and you replied and I'm still confused. Like I said I've read the attackproof book and I have watched the GC Combat Conditioning dvd. I do some training everyday solo. My question is I know you're supposed to strike from your feet through your legs and through your hips and out to whatever strike you choose but am I not supposed to pivot my feet at all on let's say a hook punch or any other strike if I feel it needs it. Or are you supposed to keep your feet flat at all times when you strike and just use your legs without pivoting the feet? Won't your feet pivot anyway?
Also about dropping. Isn't dropping basically letting your feet fall to the ground while bending your knees very fast and striking simultaneously and doing the same thing again but instead of hitting simultaneously feel the snap or rebound and then strike?
ANSWER:
You certainly do pivot on some Dropping strikes but the trap is not to rely on the pivot for power like in many styles. You pivot enough to align your body and "peg" your root, but NOT to add gross follow-through and potential over-commitment and loss of balance. Some dropping strikes however have no pivot. We have 5 types of dropping strikes but you'd have to see them to really understand:
1. Double drop
2. Opposite foot drop
3. Same foot drop
4. Rocket step (driving drop). This has the most pivot (see our book and
dvds) but only on the rear foot
5. MLB step (multi-drop)
Your intellectual grasp of dropping is correct but you really need to see and feel it once to make sure you get it.
QUESTION:
So what about when you're not dropping because you can't drop on every strike or everything you do? How would you strike when you're not dropping? I kinda feel like I'm making things difficult. But again when you're not dropping do you just rotate and turn and use your whole body on whatever strike your doing?
ANSWER:
Another great question. As you get better and quicker with your footwork you can drop on almost everything, even rapid-fire strikes which use the type of dropping called MLB stepping ("middle-linebacker hitting"). Those strikes that you can't drop on still benefit from proper Body Unity and Balance.
QUESTION:
So...when not dropping on a strike you just use your body unity and get your entire body behind every strike? Like let's say I throw a hook cross punch combination and as I throw the hook I put all my weight on my back foot and then as I come back and throw the cross I put my weight on my lead foot. That would be dropping right? Like middle linebacker dropping or the rocket step right?
ANSWER:
Answer to your first question is yes, though of course we'd need to see it to make sure (common errors are leaving the rear foot in the bucket, sinking too deep, etc.). If you can load and reload like a jack hammer then you are on the right path. You could be correct on your 2nd question as well but there are further aspects. If you are indeed Rocket-stepping you are actually using 3 power generating methods virtually simultaneously:
1. The Drive off the rear foot
2. The Drop onto the lead foot
3. The peg, knee and hip twist from the rear foot
These components of the Rocket Step deliver enormous power. Imagine if you could push off a wall with your foot on a punch like doing a single leg squat: you'd be hitting with your legs (hence the GC saying "feel your feet in your hands"). Dropping, as most of us know, uses gravity as a power booster. The peg, knee and hip twist from the rear foot puts the icing on the cake (though in many classical systems, the hip twist is the only source of power, thus limiting your potential impact). Be aware that many systems twist both feet which severely limits your power generation by breaking your root with the ground.
In your example, the front foot instantly becomes loaded off the hook and then drives in the opposite direction to propel the cross. The whole thing is rapid-fire like a jackhammer. The Rocket Step could be large and dramatic or small and subtle which would increase the speed and look to the outside observer as more of a unitized weight shift.
The Middle Line Backer step (MLB) doesn't really apply to the hook/cross combo because the MLB is a super-high speed, panic drop-hitting methodology. It is more applicable to machine gun palm strikes, face rips or hammer fists and is too fast for a longer strike like a hook.
How do you MLB step? If you shuffle your feet in place as fast as your nervous system will allow (raising them off the ground a mere fraction of an inch) you are still transferring your entire body weight with each "micro-step". The goal (via dedicated Looseness training) is to deliver a full arm-range palm strike/face rip with each micro-step and actually involve your back muscles in the process yet without hyper-extending your elbows. The reason you need the Looseness training is the tendency to tighten as you attempt to go faster, shortening your strike yet paradoxically slowing you down and decreasing your power. Students of our Elmsford NY GCC classes and Attackproof Companion Part 1 owners will recognize key drills such as the Psycho-chimp and Circle Clap as ways of maximizing your power, speed and looseness simultaneously.
If say you are assaulted from the side or rear and catch a glimpse or hear a sound of the impending attack, your first response would be a Fright Reaction, followed by a pure-panic speed MLB face-pounding/eye ripping to throw as much mayhem at the enemy as soon as possible. If after that first second (with anywhere from 4-10 shots having been thrown already--depending on your nervous system) you get your bearings, a couple of Rocket-Stepped palm strikes deliver the coup de grace. Hope this helps!
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