WATCH THIS VIDEO CAREFULLY: Repeated viewings of GM Perkins’ movement while flowing with students yields tremendous insights into how to react properly; words cannot fully convey this but you will begin to feel in your own body what is effective GC movement.
· Other internal arts partner training will go slow and then suddenly speed up to strike which only sabotages your nervous system for any kind of development.
· So-called ”Apex Striking” methods create setup and structure. GC has no structure and the strikes are embedded within the flow of movement.
· Even training to sink and root “deep in the ground” so you can let loose a “firehose” of chi to push or hit sets up tremendous rigid structure that can be destroyed. The GC root is fluid and “cannot be found” while Dropping releases an instantaneous burst of power from a root that instantly disappears and reappears somewhere else. So, while the opponent is “deep rooting”, GC simply hitchhikes off it and strikes somewhere else.
· By focusing on pushing instead of always hitting (even lightly with slow Contact Flow) your ability to fight for your life is destroyed.
· By always hitting where you’re going to be instead of where you are, you develop the ability to change and adapt mid-movement.
· Any opponent forceful response simply makes you hit somewhere else, using their power -- or loading your spring or collapsing and letting it slip by.
· John repeatedly shows the futility of blocking and instead demonstrates that by moving slightly offline you enter on unguarded targets.
· Instead of blocking you can actually destroy the attacker’s limbs. Destructions in lieu of Sliding or Skimming strikes (see Eye of the Storm video) are situation dependent.
· Instead of blocking (which wastes time) you move offline and hit simultaneously, constantly (Unavailable/Unavoidable).
· John then explains doing a very light, very slow Contact Flow where you search for the slightest point that can unbalance your partner.
· As an example, John literally invites and “splits” an incoming push (letting each hand go to the left and right side) which results in him turning and collapsing in with a devastating elbow to the face. Never step backwards.
· For the rest of the video, John then does slow Contact Flow with several students on Balance Boards, correcting balance, evasion, stiffness, structure, and striking errors. These are a goldmine for Matrix subscribers to watch carefully over and over.
