·      You always want to be as light as possible while flowing, so your body has to have hyper-balance at all times.

·      John applies this to an attacker’s attempted take down.

·      If you sprawl or grapple back against a take down, you will be crushed by a bigger, stronger attacker. Instead, being light and balanced enables you to evade and hit with deadly strikes without getting tied up.

·      The Prow (chop, palm, knee) applied with balance and dropping is devastating to a low attack. If they go really low, you can rip their eyes/throat like a bowling ball.

·      If your reaction is slow or this doesn’t work, you go to the ground using GC Groundfighting [not covered in this video but shown in extreme detail on the GC Groundfighting DVD/MATRIX download].

·      Because GC trains you to adapt and hit from any angle with power, you can devastate an attacker’s grapple attempt. For example, John instantly transitions from a vertical elbow delivered horizontally to the jaw, to a chop to the neck, to a horrific drop-stepping uppercut to the chin, ending with a straight punch to the trachea.

·      If the attacker goes strong, you can hitch-hike/rebound off their tension with your developed balance into devastating strikes. But you can’t do any of this without balanced lightness.

·      Watch carefully how John ricochets with dropping from strike to strike like a machine gun or jackhammer – except that every strike is different, with a different tool, from a different angle, to a different target. This is why training GC balance, sensitivity, footwork and dropping is so important. All these basic attributes are taught in extreme detail on the Attackproof Companion Part 2 and 3 videos, as well as the Combative Movement Immersion video.

·      Notice also how he will hit on the way in, and hit or RIP on the way out in the space of a millisecond.

·      John works with a tai chi student, showing how based on your feeling, you don’t “wait for the end result” of the attacker’s movement. You develop your sensitivity so you can anticipate his motion and circumvent it/counterattack before he even gets to finish or even start his strikes. You do this by always moving while remaining soft in the anticipated target areas, even while hitting.

·      John directs another student in the subtleties of unbalancing your opponent while remaining Unavailable.

·      A student asks, “How do you fight when you’re in close?” What you don’t do is grapple. When your life is on the line, you use WWII strikes, enhanced by GC principles (Guided Chaos Combatives). Close in, elbow strikes supercharged by dropping devastate and create space for all the various open and closed hand strikes to lethal targets. If they pull you in, you spring load and release into them. Or you go in -- but at a different angle – but what you don’t do with any of these, is resist.