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THE TOTAL IMMERSION EXPERIENCE FOUR FEATURES ADDED:  1- COMBAT SHOOTING DAY ADDED!   WEDNESDAY MAY 2ND AT THE FIRING LINE- SPACE IS LIMITED TO 6 STUDENTS --John Perkins is one of the top Close Contact and Point Shooting instructors in the U.S. --U.S. Pistol Permit and licensed firearm required --Max. 6 individuals --Additional fee  More Info    2- COMBAT BOXING MODULE ADDED! (SATURDAY)  --Saturday will now include GC Croundfighting, Combat Boxing and advanced Contact Flow  3- FREE DVD OFFER EXTENDED TO NOV. 1ST  --Purchase any 4 days before November 1st, 2011 and receive a free GC DVD of your choice at the seminar (including the forthcoming Combat Boxing DVD)     4- DISCOUNT HOTEL RESERVATIONS AVAILABLE: NOW 2 WAYS TO RESERVE   Boot Camp will be held at the Hilton Pearl River Hotel in Pearl River, New York. To book your discounted room ($130/night) right at the Hilton you can either: 1) Call the hotel directly and use the promo code "GUIDED" when booking. Or 2) Reserve online using our Hilton-Guided Chaos Boot Camp hotel reservation website. Book early as these rooms are limited. See full details. There are other hotels within 10 miles of the Boot Camp venue but considering the discounted rate is $130/night, you would be hard-pressed to find a better value anywhere.    • Indoor pool, gym, restaurant/bar; adjoins Blue Hill Golf Course • Easy highway access (40 min. drive to Manhattan) • 5 min. drive to NJ Transit railroad (65 min. train to Manhattan)                   EARLY ORDER DISCOUNT:      • 4 days of intense, personalized GC training for $700 (except Combat Shooting day--see below). That's $175/Day until 1/1/2012; $200/day thereafter) • $250 for COMBAT SHOOTING DAY (Wed May 2nd) • Come for 1 or all 5 days and experience the fastest way to learn survival self defense.   Full info here   ADDITIONAL $25/DAY REBATE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MILITARY PERSONNEL WITH ID

COMBAT BOXING DVD INTRO NOW ON YOUTUBE           WATCH IT NOW Combat Boxing is actually a "potentially" less lethal method of fighting because empty hand strikes like chops and gouges are for penetrating and killing the enemy if necessary. That being said, Combat Boxing uses fists in a far more nasty (i.e. illegal), creative and lethal manner than standard boxing, using different striking surfaces, targeting, ricocheting, destruction and multi-hitting principles from Guided Chaos (see our book). Combat Boxing is just another tool in the Guided Chaos toolbox and doesn't replace anything. When you mix open-hand strikes, gouging, punching, biting, flat fists, back fists, hammer fists, knees, feet, elbows; ground fighting, circular, linear, skimming, pivoting and folding strikes as well as hard and soft energy, you unleash a barrage of chaos upon the enemy against which no patterned or technique-based defense can survive. Your sensitivity guides your chaos and your targeting while simultaneously adapting your own defense moment-by-moment to whatever attack the enemy throws. DVD CHAPTERS What Is Combat Boxing? Warmup with Guided Chaos Related Drills What Is Combat Boxing Used For? Hand Weight Drills: Conventional Boxing Drop Striking Drills Sledgehammer Dropping Drill One-ness Hitting Steam, Water, Ice: Guided Chaos Hand Weight Drills Additional Guided Chaos Drills Long Step Hitting Drills Applying GC Sensitivity to Combat Boxing Applied Dropping and Rebounding Energy [Ricocheting] Arm Conditioning and Destructions Conditioned Fists as Combat Weapons Destruction Methodology and Close-in Fighting Combat Boxing vs. Grappling Attack Wrist, Hand and Tendon Development Heavy Bag Drills Entries Contact Flow Wobble Board Balance Training Entry vs. Knife Attack Multiple Attacker Bag Drills Keeping the Body Soft Putting It All Together   The 5 hour Combat Boxing DVD will be available mid-October.

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SOLO DRILLS Q: In the NY class you were teaching me about how to isolate from my root so that I was utilizing less arm movement and moving to more advantageous positions using my body so I wouldn’t get stuck in grabs and be able to continue the flow. All I was wondering was if there are any drills you could explain to me where I could practice isolating from my root and any type of things I could do with the training partners down here so I could continue to cultivate this ability? A: Two solo drill recommendations: 1) Psycho Tango. See the second edition Attack Proof book. 2) Something with no name that Al showed me a while back: Find a very non-resistant object at around head/shoulder/chest height. The traditional object is a leaf on a tree, preferably at the end of a long, thin branch. In my old apartment I used a string hanging from the ceiling. The object should move in response to the slightest pressure. Here's how to get started: touch the object with your fingers, being careful not to make it move. Now, while staying in contact with the object with your fingers but not disturbing it at all, start moving and stepping all over the place with the rest of your body. This forces you to isolate the body part in contact with the object while maintaining freedom of motion with the rest of your body. This is a tough drill, it's not easy to keep constant contact while not disturbing the object at all, so don't expect perfection at first. As you get the hang of it, touch the object with other contact points, e.g. your elbow, and isolate around that. Vary the height of the object and the angle at which you touch it. Get as crazy as you can with the movement of the rest of your body. Use TWO objects (e.g. two leaves with various distances between them) and touch one with each hand, and isolate from there. If you find yourself with nothing to do, you can do this with any object you can touch (e.g. a wall), you just won't have the feedback regarding whether you've given any pressure. You can also do it very small and slow if you're out in public, i.e. moving so small/slow that to outside observers it looks like you're just touching a wall or table and standing there, nothing unusual. In contact flow, what worked for me was playing with the idea of not letting the other person feel where I'm going. This forced me to isolate, either with no pressure or with constant/equal light pressure. Also, letting people grab me hard and just letting them have whatever they're grabbing while I step into position to end it. --Ari Kandel    Q: It’s been many months since I was last able to visit you in New York. Am I on the right track with the following: Practicing Washing the Wall, later reviewing GCC Combatives eBook; concepts started to click in place, not just individually but as a whole. I was practicing Washing the walls, then thinking about Sphere of Influence, I finally understood –“NOT JUST KNEW”— why you remain close to your opponent until you escape. Besides not giving your opponent a better chance to attack (which was demonstrated to me multiple times during my visits), my Sphere of Influence is quite small. To strike back I need to be close. Combining this revelation with the Box step, other footwork, moving the “Sphere of Influence”, and remaining unavailable; staying close to your opponent “FEELS” safer than creating distance. The opposite of what I demonstrated in the workouts. If I’m off on a tangent I’d like to know and correct it.   A: Great questions; we love it when people are so enthused they're training on their own, making discoveries! First off, the drills you're referencing are called Polishing the Sphere and Washing the Body. With Polishing, you're envisioning you're inside a giant glass sphere wiping off steam. the "sphere" is as far away as whatever tool (weapon) you are using to polish. The movements are all outward oriented.   Washing is the opposite; you're literally attacking yourself and getting out of the way at the same time. Washing develops sensitivity, polishing does not.   Your revelation is important: it's only when you are in "sensitivity range" (direct contact) that real mayhem (and practical defense) takes place. Everything else is sparring and thus B.S. Your Sphere of influence is anything within reach. You need to be comfortable with all weapons, offense and defense, within this range. Most people, because of stiffness and over commitment, are ineffective at close range, where GC trained sensitivity tells you what you need to do without thought or even vision. So in summary, you are on the right track!   Remember, the closer you are, the lighter, more sensitive and more unavailable you need to be (the opposite of most people). --Matt Kovsky

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