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ESSENTIAL READING FOR WARRIORS         BY GUIDED CHAOS 3RD DEGREE ARI KANDEL

GETTING YOUR MIND RIGHT The late close combat instructor Carl Cestari, after a seminar, in response to a request for book suggestions to further our combative capabilities, suggested that rather than read instructional books on close combat, martial arts, shooting, etc., we should study accounts of Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. He told us that reading such accounts (both first- and third-person) would likely do a lot more to train our minds for combat than reading lots of martial arts textbooks. I would add two caveats: 1) The martial arts instructionals "Attack Proof" and "How To Fight For Your Life" are two books that warrant repeated reading, as they are the best written sources I know of to direct your actual training. 2) Don't limit yourself to Medal of Honor recipients, although that is certainly a good place to start. The key is to fill your mind with accounts of real people successfully overcoming the reality of deadly violent situations. Modern civilians reading accounts of Medal of Honor recipients may at first wonder how they could possibly relate to the protagonists, as the environment we live in is very different from the one e.g. Audie Murphy was forced to operate in. I believe one of the key ideas that all the MOH recipients (and others I'll discuss shortly) have in common is that they all ACTED DECISIVELY and AGGRESSIVELY at the pivotal moment when faced with extreme danger. That's what we all need to do in order to successfully protect ourselves and our loved ones when faced with deadly violence. Having many examples of SUCCESSFUL IMMEDIATE DECISIVE AGGRESSIVE ACTION floating around our subconscious, crowding out examples of hesitation, doubt, helplessness, indecision, etc., MAY help to improve our reactions in the moment of truth. We are all the products of our experiences. Those of us who thankfully haven't had the opportunity to build up our own experiences overcoming lethal violence might do well to fill our minds with the experiences of those who have. This is why it is so important to LISTEN TO and ABSORB the narratives, reports and statistics that John relates during classes, even when you're hearing some of them for the fifth time. (It's also why true accounts are used to illustrate points in John's books.) Trust me, John isn't telling these stories just because he likes to reminisce, and he sure as heck isn't bragging (he describes his mistakes as richly as his successes). John is an expert at implanting potentially life-saving impressions, facts and suggestions into his students' subconscious that can affect how the students might later perform while under deadly attack. Anyone who attended the recent GC Weapons seminar will recognize this, if you were paying attention. Despite what you've seen in movies (where most of us unfortunately get much of our subconscious conditioning about things outside our own realms of experience, like lethal violence), do you think from this point on you'll count on one or two shots from your gun (or cuts from your knife, or hits from your stick) to stop an attacker? Will you assume you can out-draw him, or "knife-fight" him to a clean resolution? Do you think the points John was making were reiterated too often or reinforced by too many real accounts of his own and others' experiences? Just because you consciously say "okay" to something doesn't mean your subconscious actually GETS it. What John is doing is valuable, and you should pay attention, even if you don't think you "have to." To get back to the subject of this post, I highly recommend these two books: Deadliest Men: The World's Deadliest Combatants Throughout the Ages http://www.amazon.com/Deadliest-Men-Worlds-Combatants-Throughout/dp/1581602715/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290404833&sr=1-1 More of the Deadliest Men Who Ever Lived http://www.amazon.com/More-Deadliest-Men-Ever-Lived/dp/1581606907/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290404833&sr=1-2 The author has basically researched and written up accurate (to the best of his ability, which is high) and vivid accounts of people (men and women) and groups who ACTED DECISIVELY and AGGRESSIVELY to prevail in lethally violent situations. They're not all "good guys," and indeed some are "complex" on a moral level, but all are EFFECTIVE (with one possible exception--it depends on whether you consider a suicidal victory to indeed be a victory). Some accounts in the books to pay particular attention to for our purposes (all are good but these may be particularly relevant): (Book 1) Tom Allen Jelly Bryce Nathan Bedford Forrest (see if his portrait in the book reminds you of a certain GC grandmaster) Gurkhas Lance Thomas (Book 2) John Wesley Hardin Joseph Harrison Kitty Hesselberger and Dorothy Raynes-Simson Moros (useful to correct some of the myths surrounding the Filipino martial arts) John Purcell I won't go into detail here, but do read the books and feel free to post if you want to discuss anything in particular. Just another step towards gettin' our minds right. . .

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