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| At this past Boot Camp we had 4 students take and pass their Guided Chaos Combatives Instructor Certification exams!
--Brent Ames
--Steve Philliber
--Bruce Wilson
--Allan Johnson
As a result of their successes, look for GCC classes to begin operating in Kansas City and San Francisco soon. We're also hoping to open our first Guided Chaos school in San Fran late 2014 or early 2015! |
| We also had 2 students promoted to Guided Chaos 1st degree: Luke West from Mick James' Unity Martial Arts in the UK (great job guys) and Luciano Imoto from Brazil.
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| Luciano is the owner and head instructor at Academia Imoto, a multi-discipline martial arts school in Sao Paulo. He has been studying various styles of martial arts since he was 16 years old, including Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu, Ving Tsun, Taijiquan, Yiquan/Xing Yi, Kyokushin, Taikiken, Systema, Capoeira and Aikido (in which he holds a 2nd degree black belt). He has also had a Guided Chaos Training Group for some time and been diligently practicing from our book and DVDs. We were so impressed by his development that John Perkins has granted Luciano permission to open the first Guided Chaos school in South America at his Academia Imoto! (See how good you can get as a long-distance learner?) Learn more at his website and from our Classes page.
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| | We are considering doing an Anti-Abduction Seminar in the Myrtle Beach SC area around August 23.
We are also exploring doing seminars in San Francisco, Cincinnati and possibly Kansas City later this year. If interested in any of the above, let us know asap! |
| | BOXING
QUESTION:
I'm a 50 y/o who is a boxing geek. Who doesn't want to get beat up and have his lunch money stolen...Haha.
In the very recent past, trained in TKD, but have honestly...found myself wondering about it's overall effectiveness in a real fight. I really haven't had to answer that question in a real situation...and I was wondering if I really could. If a fight ocurred, based on the training I've done, my best option would be Thai kicks to the legs, and side kicks to the knees. I have conditioned my legs some for that type of impact...but not extensively by any means. But maintaining the proper distance would be a paramount concern...but really that would be the case in any fight.
I generally find myself gravitating to using boxing, as a training method, and have done so for some years. I haven't had any fights, but I respect the science of boxing, and I respect the fighters. My most recent trend with this is focusing on keeping an angle where my body isn't squared up, with more emphasis on defending ones or twos/ hooks by body positioning and using footwork to enter/exit on different angles...like a triangle pivot. Also have been practicing using elbows more, in an defensive and offensive context.
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ANSWER:
FIRST:
When training to save your life you must consider range. We're assuming that if you have space to run and some awareness that you'd run immediately. But many attacks happen too close to use boxing or traditional kicks. It is essential that you train the Personal Comfort Zone, Fright Reaction and Universal Entries within Guided Chaos Combatives to deal with close-range violent assaults (explained on Attackproof Companion Part 1 and our books). Most martial arts don't even touch on any of these close-in attack defense methodologies.
That being said:
Boxing is far better than most martial art styles but it has limitations in addition to what was said above. With boxing:
1. You'll get broken knuckles when hitting hard targets (head) and broken wrists when
hitting anything else without PERFECT form.
2. Traditional fists are hard to form instantaneously.
3. Boxing has no other hand weapon training (gouges, chops, palm heels, hammer fists,
etc.) as used in WW II and taught by champion boxers advising U.S.
military (Jack Dempsey, etc.)
4. No real infighting (clinching is not a strategy for saving your life
outside the ring).
Thai kicks are powerful (I trained them as an apprentice JKD instructor)
but they involve too much over-commitment and follow through that will
disrupt balance (note how champion Thai boxers spin around when they miss
or fall down--an opening for the enemy to stomp them).
Defensively, don't fall into the trap of using your shins to block kicks (unless you've spent 10 years kicking banana trees and turning your flesh purple). Use your boots to both parry and deliver kicks. And remember that steel-toe shoes are one of the few "legal weapons" you can carry without restriction (nowadays you can get them--and kevlar toe shoes--in almost any style, from running to dress shoe).
Remember that if you're just outside kicking range (your Sphere of Influence) it's probably better to run away, if you can.
Keep kicks low,
short and quick and train multiples while being able to simultaneously hit
with the hands (a rarely trained methodology).
Your footwork practice (entering/exiting) is excellent and will serve you
well. Train however to never back up (unless running away--always your
first choice!) and keep coming in, but change angles to evade until the
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| DRILLS
QUESTION:
On the Attackproof Companion Part 2 [available as a DVD or Download] after the RHEM drill, the Speed Flow (Psycho Chimp) drill comes on where Al starts Washing the Body. Then he starts washing faster and faster until full speed but then he says he's acting like he's getting a swarm of bees off of him. So is the Speed Flow/Psycho Chimp basically Washing the Body fast or Polishing the Sphere fast?
ANSWER:
Sort of...see below
QUESTION:
Hi I got the Attackproof Companion Series Parts 1and 2 a few months back. When Polishing the Sphere I like to stand in a fighting stance and start to bob and weave and throw hooks and uppercuts and straight punches and just go with the flow but when I throw straight punches I'm not polishing anything. Is it ok to throw straight punches?
ANSWER:
Polishing is mostly meant to develop fluid, circular, spontaneous, body unitized and weaponized movement (think of all the "polishes" as strikes). It's usually done slow to medium speed.
The Psycho Chimp has evolved to what is essentially a full-speed, free-flow Polishing using all strikes, linear and circular, but they must be all part of continuous nonstop movement even if there are jabs and such within it.
Washing is mostly a slow sensitivity exercise so you generally would not speed up to Swarm of Bees speed.
DROPPING
QUESTION:
Is an internal Drop basically breathing out on every strike and an external Drop where you actually stomp or bend your knees and catch yourself?
ANSWER:
You breathe out on both Drops. External and internal are similar (except for the distinction outlined below), generally the only difference is in the amount of the drop. "Internal" may be an inch or less, the key thing is having the rooted connection with the ground. When you're highly skilled you can get almost the same power with an internal Drop. Less skilled students need the big external Drop to get the power.
Another distinction we generally make is with what we call "crude" Drops-- similar to the way Jack Dempsey and also many WWII CQC proponents performed them. That is, to hit on the DOWN or falling motion of a hit. We do a lot of this in Guided Chaos Combatives. An internal Drop is far more subtle and is actually done on the up or rebound motion (off the ground) of the hit. What is interesting to note is that both Drops are different from "fajing" pushes in tai chi. Drops work WITH gravity while tai chi fajing works against gravity, using leg power. Anything that takes you away from the ground limits power and balance.
QUESTION:
In the DVD on the Speed Flow (Psycho Chimp) drill, Al says to start off Washing the Body slowly and then work your way up to full speed then he says to just go off like a swarm of bees is around you. So how would I exactly do it? I'm a little confused?
ANSWER:
That is one way to do it but what's most important for Washing is going slowly and feeling and reacting to your own stimulus with full Body Unity and Balance. Practice the Fright Reaction (especially with a partner) and Answering the Phone for dealing with a close-in surprise attack. Done in multiples at high speed it can look like you're fighting off a swarm of bees.
WAIST ROTATION?
QUESTION:
Dear friends: I notice that when you strike in your videos you do not always rotate at the waste. I know it's not necessary always for a powerful strike but it certainly makes one more powerful. Do you not always rotate because it takes more time, or maybe balance or some other reason? By the way I think the chaos principle of ki chuan do [Guided Chaos' original name] makes it the awsomest martial art I've seen yet.
ANSWER:
Thanks for the kind words. Yes we do rotate on some types of strikes (most notably the "Rocket Step") when time and space allow. The hallmark of our "Dropping" strikes is that they can be delivered in an instant with no room, windup or rotation. Adding in rotation is a bonus.
CONTACT FLOW, PUSH HANDS AND FIGHTING
QUESTION:
I have now come to the contact flow. I get everything else but not that. Are you supposed to go into push hands when dealing with multiple attackers?
I can understand that it's good for training all the key qualities but do you actually use push hands in real combat. Can't see myself doing that with a boxer or mma guy. Also the hand is quicker than the eye so it seems like it would be easy to hit through those push hands with a fast reflex strike. If you were a tai chi master you could probably sense through someone's arms what there up to but I would not especially if I am fighting for my life.
ANSWER:
First of all, Contact Flow has nothing to do with push hands. GC is not tai chi. Tai chi push hands is all about--(surprise!)--pushing and has little correlation to fighting for your life. At the competitive level it resembles Sumo more than fighting. Contact Flow, by contrast, is a drill to develop hitting, penetrating and disabling/killing with every conceivable type of strike. It is for creating and sealing openings and preventing killing/disabling blows from hitting you. Even so, Contact Flow is a drill and not real combat. The more aggressive version of Contact Flow--Combat Flow--begins to approach what you might encounter with real violence. And yes, tai chi push hands would be useless against a boxer or grappler. For more on a GC/tai chi comparison, read this.
As far as MMA: We have Gracie black belts and boxing champions in our system who prefer our methods over their previous training for defending their lives.
Our multiple attacker strategies are much different than tai chi or MMA's. You keep moving, disabling the person nearest and using them as shields that are used and abandoned in the process of escaping.
As far as the hand being quicker than the eye and having enemies hitting through those push hands with a fast reflex strike: again, yes--if you're doing tai chi push hands. However, when you develop true ADAPTIVE hitting sensitivity (with Guided Chaos) you not only feel their strike before they do it, you hit them before they hit you. Once you feel this you'll know why. And you can do a lot more when fighting for your life than you may think.
QUESTION:
So if we compare ki chuan do to fencing...is it true to say that every fight should start from a distance and then sword crossing using guards that turns into weapons attacks? But if you don't want to cross swords and directly attack with speed cause the hand is quicker than the eye why wouldn't you just drop attack right away. And how can a guided chaos practitioner defend against a high speed attack if they are not able to sense the faster then eye attack with a limb?
ANSWER:
It's all about range. No real mayhem occurs until you're in range where you can make contact. Then sensitivity is paramount to surviving and hitting effectively. If a person wants to spar or "fight" you run. By the way, fencing is not a useful analogy because it's a "match" and also because you can only move in 2 directions (forward and back), use only 1 weapon and one arm and strike in only one angle (forward, more or less).
And yes you attack the attacker first when possible.
POLISHING THE SPHERE
QUESTION:
When Polishing the Sphere I can polish with my hands a few inches in front of my face right as if the sphere or person was close to my face and I'm using my hands to attack and defend? Like moving behind a guard and polishing? When polishing with my hands, my hands don't have to be as far as I can extend them right, they can be closer to my body if I want them to be as I polish right?
ANSWER:
Generally with Polishing we are developing an awareness of balance, weaponry and especially Body Unity. To understand appropriate weaponry with Body Unity you need to use the right tool for the right job. As such you polish with longer range weapons (foot and hand) at every possible angle at maximum range so that you understand getting your body behind them. This is because 99% of people who Polish will, when using the weapons at a shorter range, have lousy Body Unity and no power generating potential in their movements. So we think of a bigger sphere for hand and foot weapons and an appropriately smaller sphere for knee, elbow and even shoulder weapons. You can then mix these spheres as long as all strikes are combatively "real" in the sense that they display full Body Unity. But in all cases you practice at max weapon range to encourage Body Unity development. But yes you can Polish at all ranges for all weapons but usually without guidance from a certified instructor your motion will be all wrong and defeat the entire point of the drill. All of the above applies double for the Psycho Chimp exercise.
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"Brilliant Self Defence System.
I cannot get enough of it."
"It
has all aspects of Self Protection covered in depth. Many thanks to all
of the Guided Chaos Masters and Teachers. With great gratitude to GM
Perkins for the wisdom and insight to create this System."
---Sifu Doug Clark, Instructor Level Technician of Ving Tsun and Practitioner of Tai Ji Quan www.functionalcombatsystems.com |
| | ENDORSEMENTS:
Blitz magazine article on Guided Chaos Australia Seminar:
"Let me start by saying I thought I'd seen all that the world of 'reality-based self defence' had to offer, so for the easily bored out there, I'll cut to the chase. What I witnessed on the weekend of 26 and 27 March is the closest thing I've come across that resembles a modern-day, reality-based martial art and not just another 'combatives system'. Does it work? Hell, yeah! I got my arse well and truly kicked and at times felt like I was in the middle of a Jason Bourne fight scene."
--Clive Girdham, former Senshido and Geoff Thompson instructor
[Excerpted from the exclusive review of the Guided Chaos Australia Seminar in the Aug. print edition of BLITZ MAGAZINE: Australia's #1 Martial Arts magazine volume 25, issue 6
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| "Guided Chaos is the only training in my 15 plus years of Corrections that translates into real world application, period."
"Guided
Chaos is the only thing that has worked for me in real life situations.
Unless you are 6'3" and 285 lbs of muscle, most of the Defensive
Tactics stuff (ok all of the Defensive Tactics stuff) will get you hurt.
And even if you are that big and strong, there is always someone
bigger and stronger and there may be a lot of them. Nothing like dealing
with one guy and it turns into a free for all with all his buddies.
This is where you literally need to 'adapt or die' and Guided Chaos is
the only training in my 15 plus years of Corrections that translates
into real world application, period."
---Bob Miller, Corrections Officer at the largest facility in Oregon |
| "If I had to pick only one martial arts system in the world it would be Guided Chaos..."--Dr. Robert L. O'Block founder and publisher of the American College of Forensic Examiners International, American Board for Certification in Homeland Security
"...through watching videos put out by attackproof.com, and by reading Attackproof, the book, I have learned real survival skills. These skills have been learned...at an exponentially higher practical yield-per-hour training rate than any other martial art classes or seminar I've ever attended, or ever even heard rumor of."
--Matthew Shoener, Police Officer, Scranton, PA
"The Companion Video Part One is stupendous! A godsend of detail for out-of-state practitioners."
--Mark from Chicago
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