WATCH THIS 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.

• Watching your opponent’s movement can throw you off. Feeling motion may not. (Note that in GC we do develop deceptive “Pulsing” skills that give false signals to elicit a response you can exploit.

• If you remain light and feel your way you can more efficiently evade and enter (“Unavailable and Unavoidable” immediately).

• Pressure and visual cuing may lead you to “follow” the opponent’s hands too far and miss efficient openings.

• Your lightness allows you to yield or corkscrew in the smallest space possible to hit.

• John re-emphasizes how the ability to use one arm as an antenna to engage both of the enemy’s gives you the tactical advantage of a free arm.

• This multi-tasking single-arm “shield” can be both defensive and offensive (to hit or unbalance) – and you still have a free arm.

• Subtle point: as you unbalance them, hit before they regain their root. This can also upset their landing.

• Tool replacing to your body affords another opportunity to unbalance them and hit.

• If some part of your arm is on their body you can choose to unbalance them first and then hit which may be more effective in a particular situation rather than forcing a hit against a balanced enemy.

• John demonstrates arm destructions off of initial blending contact. The destruction can then be immediately ricocheted off of to further strikes.

• Getting inside is essential to prevent them from throwing kicks.

• Once inside you continuously disrupt their balance which also prevents kicks.

• Obviously do not push them away when unbalancing them which would only allow them to land, regroup and kick from a distance.

• On the flip side, GC kicks are very low, short and quick (with no “chamber” of course) making them devastating inside.

• These kicks are augmented by dropping. GC is probably the only system that drops on kicks rather than rising.

• If there’s too much distance, always walk in with multiple (if necessary) low, short kicks on each step. Knees are useful here also.

• If they push you on your kick you must pocket, turn, absorb as necessary and drop and/or step while kicking and you can still deliver.

• This absorption is what allows you to kick when hit or pushed when they can’t.