• Rapid, machine gun strikes require rapid, machine gun drop steps [Note: check out “MLB Drop Stepping” on the GC Combatives video for more details].

• Rapid Drop Stepping allows you to instantaneously change targets: John goes from a gut punch to an upper cut to an up elbow to a down chop in one motion. (Not shown in the video but you can accomplish this with 2-4 rapid fire drops).

• You don’t want to chamber or slow it down by clenching the arm muscles – it all come from the feet.

• John commends student for being Unavailable while simultaneously bringing his elbows online.

• Real fighting involves face-ripping, throat chopping and finger breaking (done in a catch-as-catch-can manner, NOT as a choreographed locking “technique”).

• When the opponent’s speed is a product of tension, you can use that tension to move him (and set him up for strikes).

• Increased looseness and sensitivity allow you to flow into smaller and smaller spaces and targets with maximum efficiency.

• If you had to defend the life of a loved one, you likely would have more adrenaline and lethal intent than just defending yourself – and you would keep fighting even after being injured. The goal of GC is to channel and focus that enraged energy into free-form adaptive fighting that maintains balance and looseness even while your blood vessels are bursting.

• John does an interesting segue here into fallacies concerning shooting under adrenaline. Most shooters are trained to maintain an isosceles, weaver, etc. stance under extreme stress but John points out that during the chaos of real violence, you will be moving and shooting one-handed while gripping the gun like iron– and you should develop the ability to adapt, point and function within those parameters instead, something that is part of GC shooting (not covered here – see “Bare Hands to Hand Guns” in the GC Weapons Series).