ISSUE #223 GUIDED CHAOS NEWS         follow us @GuidedChaos    ENDORSEMENTS

HITTING FROM GRAPPLING RANGE: PART 3     by Lt Col Al* In Part One of this Newsletter I discussed the concept of Collapsing the Sphere in order to be able to enter on an attacker and hit at what is referred to as “grappling range”.  In Part 2, I described how it is accomplished.  In Part 3, I will complete the sequence with another example of how to enter and provide some training tips for developing the necessary timing and movement. In the sequence below, I enter with a chop to the throat (fig 8a) where for whatever reason I end up on the inside of his arm.  However because he picks this up he counters by moving with a strike to the outside and over the top of my arm as well as initiates a strike with the other fist. As I enter (fig 8b) and collapse my sphere, I continue to enter, cutting off the angle to his strikes and collapse into the Fright Reaction* which protects my head and neck from both strikes.  I continue my movement (fig 8c) delivering a palm strike to the face with my right hand, closing the distance to ensure that he does not have enough time to counter my movement. When entering, whether Moving Behind the Guard* by Answering the Phone* or with the “Drac* (figures 9a, 9b & 9c) as I slip inside to strike, note the space between my hands and my head.  Also notice that my arms and  hands are not against my head.  They are merely there to deflect strikes while allowing me to adjust my body, yield or move my head off line as I enter. Note also the kind of energy I'm using: I'm not clashing or trying to overpower his arms--I'm trying to slip through them using sensitivity. Oh yeah--one more thing because it really needs to be said: Notice that in all of my movements, no matter what, I always attempt to move off line from the strike even if I deflect the strike.  It is a big mistake thinking that in the heat of battle you are going to successfully block and parry a strike without making some attempt to get off line.   Who knows--maybe you can pull it off but you’re taking a big chance.  Remember: we are talking about fighting for your life, not “play fighting” as some do. In the pictures below one of our students performs a very basic isolation drill. This "String" drill is important because it teaches you how to move in while “hiding your intention” as you enter.  Here the student touches a string suspended from a tree with a weight at the end. He attempts to step in to strike without disturbing the string if possible.  The idea is to remain as light as possible in the beginning to develop the ability to isolate and hide your intention as you enter. As he transitions forward he moves in and performs the Drac while angling his head and body slightly off line using the string as a guide. This simulates making contact with the attacker and then folding on the way in, moving behind the guard as he touches the tree with his hand, simulating a palm strike to the face while simultaneously remaining in constant, light, sensitive contact with the string--yet not disturbing it.   While obviously this does not take the place of proper Contact Flow practice, this is a very simple and easy drill for developing the ability to collapse your sphere as you enter to strike and hit at grappling range.  Remember: you never want to challenge your opponent's strength or structure. You step, collapse, weasel, turn, skim or tool replace. As you improve you want to learn to move in from every possible angle. *The Fright Reaction", "Moving Behind the Guard", “Drac” and “Answering the Phone” are fully explained in our book Attackproof and/or the Attackproof Companion Part 1 DVD or Digital Download). LtCol Al will be teaching a 2 Day hands-on Intensive seminar on these and other concepts at Unity Martial Arts Academy in the UK Nov.17-18.

HOW TO SUPERCHARGE ALL YOUR GUIDED CHAOS DRILLS... We all know how essential GC Drills are for improving your fighting skills. When new people ask "how do I get better?" they are invariably met with shouts of "Do the Drills!!" by the upper belts. Doing all the drills regularly is vital because they are all meant to improve the 4 major principles of GC--and combat survival as a whole: Balance, Body Unity, Looseness and Sensitivity, all culminating in the critical 5th principle--Total Adaptivity. The optimum way to do the drills is with great frequency rather than long sessions. Better to do them for a minute each, every day, rather than twice a week for 20 minutes each. Longer is not better and may induce injury.  A good session could include: --Vacuum Walk --Ninja Walk --Starting the Mower --Dry Land Swimming --Rowing the Boat into Rolling the Ball (see the Attackproof Companion Part 2 DVD or On Demand Digital Download for how to do this) --String Drill (article above) --Anywhere Striking --Polishing the Sphere --Washing the Body ...plus any of 50 some odd other drills in our book. So now that you're doing them religiously, how do you derive the maximum benefit? Two words: Wobble Board. Do every GC solo drill while balancing on a Wobble Board and you will increase your skill level tremendously over what you could ever achieve without it. This applies in spades to Contact Flow with a partner. Your ability to adapt, find and deliver strikes against an enemy under less than ideal conditions wil improve dramatically. Making a simple Wobble Board is easy. Get a 2 x 4 about 3-4 feet long and wad up a big ball of duct tape under each end and secure them with more duct tape. This is to make the board unstable. The bigger the wad of tape, the more unstable it gets. Want a fancier Wobble Board like the ones seen in our DVDs? We're considering making them for sale with the Guided Chaos logo (like on our Slambags) hot branded into the wood. Interested? Let us know and if we get enough takers we'll start making them.

"YOU'VE GOT TO FEEL IT TO BELIEVE IT"     UK SEMINAR NOV. 17-18    UNITY MARTIAL ARTS ACADEMY (The ONLY Guided Chaos School Outside the U.S.) Farnham Park Playing Fields Beaconsfield Road Farnham Royal Slough SL2 3BP MAP/DIRECTIONS Tel: 07721 410526 FOR BEGINNERS THROUGH EXPERTS Yes, you read that right. Guided Chaos' unique methods benefit all levels dramatically. In fact, for some people, advanced training in another style could be a handicap. For others, GC can be the Holy Grail you've been searching for your entire life...but you may have to "empty your cup!" MORE INFO

BENEFIT CONCERT TO FIGHT CYSTIC FIBROSIS Harbor Hill 91 Main St Nyack NY, Nov 18th 2-17pm 845 358-3202 "Hi everyone. It's me Gavin from GC class. For those who don't know me, I'm a 4th degree GC instructor. I am playing a benefit concert in Nyack, NY as the flyer on the left explains. We're raising money for a very ill, but very brave little girl. I'd just like to invite any and everyone to come to the concert. It's for all ages and families on a Sunday afternoon. And the music is really good too." If you'd like to help with publicity, email us at Attackproof and we'll send you a large printable version of the flier on the left, suitable for posting in your neighborhood.

Following is from our good friend and colleague in Los Angeles, Spice Williams (host of our 2010 Seminar) who is trying to finance a Women's Self Defense TV series. (By the way, you may have already seen her in the movies: she played the Klingon officer "Vixis" in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier...)    click logo for IFIGHTFORMYLIFE.com Where I take women Victims & turn them into Women Victors!  Dear Friends, I just got word from a contributor (Barbara Ann Klein-Weisman) that she and her husband will match whatever I raise during the course of my campaign up to $10,000! This is so exciting for myself & all my contributors who have become part of this project by donating! I have almost a month to go to achieve the monies I need to complete my project, I FIGHT FOR MY LIFE! And help save a woman's life!  We would like to shoot 6 webisodes, 20 minutes each. We have the production company in place with everything we need, but I need money to pay my talent, rent equipment, and hire set medics, along with meals & craft service. We are so close and really need your help!  I have almost a month to go to achieve the monies I need to complete my project, I FIGHT FOR MY LIFE! and help save a woman's life!  Thank you so very much for those of you who have already donated!   Click here to review: http://igg.me/p/225241?a=1212525. Please help with just $5, $10, $20 & $30 or more with perks!   Somewhere in America, a woman is raped every 2 minutes. Over one million women are physically and sexually assaulted annually, and during 2007, Child Protective Services estimated that 794,000 children were victims of abuse or neglect! At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime by a man she usually knows. I teach and help women to take their POWER back! Thank You!

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KILL THE ENEMY: Close Quarters Combat for U.S. Military Personnel "The Kill the Enemy video is the greatest work of modern combat of our time! In the dirty bloody world of real combat there are no second place winners. In combat there is only Kill and come home. John trains you for just such an encounter. There is nothing in the world that can ever prepare you for the harsh cold reality of combat, but John Perkins has found a way to bridge the gap between school and real world no-holds-barred REALITY!" --Captain Jonathan Edwards, 101st Airborne/Air Assault POLITICALLY INCORRECT HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT...?   In 1989, the RUSSIANS instituted a hand-to-hand combat methodology that far surpassed ours in terms of SIMPLICITY and EFFECTIVENESS. Ironically, it was nearly IDENTICAL to the system OUR military used--BACK IN WORLD WAR II!! WHAT HAPPENED?!! Through a political process too convoluted and distressing to elaborate on here, over the years, our soldiers' hand-to-hand training has become convoluted, mis-directed, and relatively ineffective except under "sportive  or "competitive" (i.e. unrealistic) conditions. KILL THE ENEMY is a simple video guide that does away with the boxing-grappling-locking nonsense that has become the "politically correct" standard of training for our soldiers in recent years. Instead of subjecting our military personnel to methods that could get them killed, Master Perkins and Lieutenent Colonel Ridenhour USMC provide basic, effective methods proven in World War II. Distilled from Part 1 of our book ATTACK PROOF, these strategies (Guided Chaos Combatives) are the basic tools that John Perkins' Guided Chaos builds upon. Topics include: Comparison: US vs. Russian Hand-to-Hand Training The Myth of Grappling Defensive/Offensive Posture Basic Hand Strikes Bag/Dummy Training/10 Seconds of Hell Wrestling the Rifle Covering Your Back A Fantasy Knife Fight Rear Choke Scenarios Ground Fighting Fantasies Conclusion: History Doesn't Lie! BUY NOW

CAN YOU SURVIVE ON THE GROUND?   The Fantasy: A 100 pound woman can fight off a 200 pound man from the Guard position (much less mount him for a "ground and pound"!)                  ...ARE YOU SURE?     • Do you really want to be locked tight to a dangerous enemy-- who may have weapons or accomplices ready to kick your brains in? • Do you really want to Mount or go into the Guard position against someone bigger and stronger than you? • If you're a woman, can you REALLY grapple with a stronger man...and live to tell about it? There is a world of difference between competitive submission fighting with rules and elite athletes... ...and real, life-and-death self-defense for REGULAR people, where the only rule is chaos. DON'T BET YOUR LIFE ON A SPORT! The built-in restrictions on your training could short-circuit your reactions and get you killed if the spit hits the fan.   GUIDED CHAOS GROUNDFIGHTING: MODIFIED NATIVE AMERICAN COMBAT 2 DISC DVD SET MODIFIED NATIVE AMERICAN COMBAT   We focus on:  • Evasion • Ground Mobility • Ground Kicking • Ground Avoidance • Multiple Attackers • Knife Attacks • Penetrating defenses and striking to the eyes and throat OUR CRITICS SAY: "We can hit the eyes and throat too, so what's the difference?" The difference is that we're better at it--as well as defending against it, because both require Sensitivity and Adaptation--something we train exclusively. YOUR INSTRUCTORS: Former forensic crime scene expert John Perkins: Perkins has trained in Native American "Anything Goes" fighting principles since the age of 5. Over a period of 20 years he combined it with experience gained from over 100 extremely violent arrests (where people routinely ended up in the hospital or morgue), unsanctioned pit-fighting, World War II Close Quarters Combat, the internal aspects of tai chi and the ancient Greek combat art of Elephtheri Pali. In 1978, he formally created Ki Chuan Do and the principles of Guided Chaos [in1998 he officially changed the name of the art itself to Guided Chaos]. Unlike the "fight-by-the-numbers" self-defense methods popular today, the Groundfighting component of GC is probably unlike anything you've ever seen before.   Iraq and Afghanistan combat veteran Lt. Col. Al Ridenhour USMC: Infantry unit commander and instructor of unarmed combat, he is also a Guided Chaos Master. Security Manager, Assistant Operations Officer, and the Anti-Terrorism Force Protection Officer for the II Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq. Worked with U.S. Customs Service and U.S. Border Patrol for the JTF-6 counter drug mission. Has trained current and former members of US Marines, US Army Special Forces, NYPD, US Air Force OSI and US Air Marshal Service   Guided Chaos 2nd Degree Tony Dey, Champion of Cage Combat, Bare-knuckle, No-weight Limit and Vale Tudo matches in Kiev, Holland, Florida and Mississippi and former head bouncer at some of New York City's most  violent nightclubs.  GUIDED CHAOS GROUNDFIGHTING--BUY NOW

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"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

"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

"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.

"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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