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READER RESPONSE TO LAST NEWSLETTER...
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| A LONG-DISTANCE LEARNER EXPERIENCES AL'S MUSINGS FIRST HAND
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[Bolded sections: editor emphasis added.]
"I was thrilled yesterday to read Al’s piece regarding how ego gets in the way of training.
First, it is a hugely important point, one which goes unacknowledged in virtually all martial arts.
As far as I know, you guys are in a rare league for discussing this human dimension of training.
Hopefully intelligent readers will realize that this differentiates guided chaos from all other training options.
But the second reason was that Al’s writing described an experience I had recently. Not sure of your general experience with tai chi guys, but it seems to me that they have missed the boat somehow. Last night I trained with a bunch of them. The lead guy is at teacher level, but shows up with nearly no presence at point-of-contact, enough so that you could just push through, esp. with body strikes. I couldn't believe that at his level he CAN'T FEEL that he “isn't there."
Then, when I start to show him his holes, he switches to the opposite: tight in the shoulders, rigid, pushy. But that doesn't work either: First, his shoulders aren’t stronger than my unified body, regardless of his being larger and younger. Second, when he manages to push me back, I simply step, re-root and then enter the resulting low pressure zone for a nice head shot. (Non-injuriously, of course!) So lack of presence doesn't work and neither does pushing. Yet he doesn't seem to have an alternative in his bag of tricks. So just as Al wrote, you'd think he would want to know what this other guy has. You would think he would want to be instructed...? Instead he offered rationalizations:
"We normally spar in closer."
"We don't strike like that so I'm holding back my strikes."
Bullshit to both. Regarding the latter, he couldn't penetrate my light/sticky defenses. Regarding the former: why should I let you inside of me when I can effortlessly prohibit that and manhandle you from my distance? : )
Then I made the mistake of mentioning the value of dropping center and one leg rooting to him. He immediately invalidated my point (though I don't think he understood what I said.) He began to lecture, explaining why one leg rooting was bad. It had a droning tone to it, one which told me it would be futile to try to reach him at this point. So I remained silent but doubled down on my body striking (since he had a "leaky" presence at point-of-contact.) For several minutes, while he "educated" me verbally, I schooled him with body shots, one every five seconds or so. Not to mention that I could grab his throat nearly at will.
(I would be remiss if I failed to add that, for humor, the body shots were all delivered ala one leg rooting. I spared the center dropping in the interest of his well-being!)
Still, he stoically ignored the martial truth of the moment and continued to head-lecture me! : )
This story is to me is a perfect illustration of what Al wrote about. This tendency to protect the ego (and one’s attendant beliefs) is one of the biggest obstacle to learning. Potential students should realize that one year of intelligent training is worth more than 10 years of “traditional” training.
Please tell Al that I applaud his writing and when in doubt, he should write more about this important subject."
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| "REALLY STOKED" ABOUT THE UPCOMING SEMINAR...
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"Really stoked about the Los Angeles seminar in September!! Training with Al, John and the NYC nucleus is like going from bottled water to drinking from the wellspring itself; we're talking about the best hand to hand/close quarters combat guys in the world, which for a layman like myself is a privilege almost indescribable. No joke.
I've
trained under world-renowed Aikido Shihans, champion karate
Grandmasters and gold medal kickboxers, professional Muay Thai
fighters--run the gambit, essentially--and nothing has stuck with me,
and resonated, like Guided Chaos.
The first few months of
training this back in '13 I was non-committal and flaky, and then after
moving to the East Coast I entertained the thought of training with the
Philly group, but grew distracted and waited 11 months before attending
a seminar, which occurred one month before I was to move back to the
West Coast.
The experience with John and Al was so powerful that I became filled with regret that I'd wasted 11 months--idle
months in which I could have made enormous advances in my body
intelligence, kinetics, balance, combative skills and perhaps most
importantly, harnessed the psychology of a victorious combatant (John is
a foremost expert in the psychology of violence and his 'focus your
fear' and other psychological drills are hugely impactful and
transferable to other aspects of life) and it was that realization that galvanized me to take this seriously and honor it as the privilege that it really is."
--Michael in Los Angeles
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