ELUDING, ENTERING AND DROPPING
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO CAREFULLY:
Repeated viewings of GM Perkins’ movement while flowing with students yields tremendous insights into how to react properly; words cannot fully convey this but you will begin to feel in your own body what is effective GC movement.
• A tremendous amount of information conveyed in this short video.
• If you’re entering on a boxer, the simplest thing to do is a CCUE (John calls it a “Crossover” here in the vid), otherwise known as the Close Combat Universal Entry. Even simpler and easier to learn BTW is the "PROW." Both are explained in extreme detail on the Guided Chaos Combatives DVD/MATRIX vid. GC Combatives takes easy-to-learn WWII CQC and supercharges them with GC movement principles.
• HOWEVER, neither The Prow nor the CCUE are completely adaptable, which is why we train the actual mother art of Guided Chaos. John proceeds to explain how to develop an unchoreographed, spontaneous response.
• This requires you to “listen” to and follow their movement, eventually learning to interpret and anticipate their motion and “beat them to the punch”. This includes simultaneously letting their strikes go where they want to go without “stopping” them, but not being there when they arrive (“Unavailable”), …and then following their retraction back, thus creating your own strike (“Unavoidable”).
• Note how close John stays while remaining in contact, yet he's elusive and unavailable.
• Even while moving fast, the opponent “tells” John where he wants to go without John needing to stop his motion.
• Note how John uses his entire body as an antenna to feel where he needs to go.
• As shown in the video, it’s important when you Contact Flow at any speed to acknowledge being hit by continuing to try and get out of the way, not by unrealistic retaliatory strikes that never would have landed if you had been struck with actual power. This only short circuits your development.
• In addition to being “Unavailable,” part of being “Unavoidable” is developing your Destructions (for example, like skills trained in GC Combat Boxing) and DESTROYING the opponent’s tools as opposed to trying to stop them. This consists for example of punching or hammerfisting their limbs, which even if they don’t seriously harm a very large attacker, offer ricochet opportunities to more vulnerable targets.
• Note that when John’s strikes DO get blocked, he often will just pivot around the contact point of the block and thrust a new strike through on a completely different entry line WITHOUT RETRACTING his arm (2:40).
• Again, this sensitivity and full body employment means you can contact both of the opponent's arms with just one of yours, freeing up your other arm to do damage (see earlier MATRIX vid, “How to Fight Like You Have 3 Arms”).
• John clearly corrects a student to not just try and evade, but to move IN so both the evasion and his striking opportunities are amplified. Then, even when the student does it correctly, John shows you can adapt even to THAT, by employing your entire body (such as your shoulder and traps) as deflecting AND unbalancing tools.
• John explains how the loose-arm whipping motions in GC are meaningless (like in some arts) unless they are generated by Dropping Energy. “I DROP ON EVERYTHING.”
• Master DeVeaux demonstrates with John the incredible power of Dropping to not only nail your root when pushed, but to react with devastating, plyometric power.
