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REVIEWS ARE COMING IN...   5 STARS  No Nonsense, No BS, Just Pure Self Defense, July 10, 2010 By  D. Buxman "A Seeker of Truth"  (Pueblo, CO United States) This review is from: How to Fight for Your Life: Enhanced Reality-Based Close Combat Training for Self-Defense and Street Survival (Kindle Edition) How to Fight for Your Life covers a lot of ground in a short space. As any good self-defense book should, it all starts with Situational Awareness. If you are constantly plugged in to your Ipod or your Blackberry, just consider yourself another item on the Predator's Menu Board. This book has excellent advice on avoiding confrontation and helping you to set up trigger points that will prepare you to defend yourself in a devastating, yet legal, manner once the line is crossed. The techniques described are well-illustrated with good photgraphs that demonstrate what you should and should not do when defending yourself. More importantly, the techniques are simple to practice and use. This isn't an elaborate martial arts dance class. It is pure focused aggression. I would suggest Attack Proof, 2nd Edition as a good companion piece for those who want to further explore the information raised in this excellent book. 5 STARS The Title Says It All..., July 9, 2010 By  M. Kaminski     This review is from: How to Fight for Your Life: Enhanced Reality-Based Close Combat Training for Self-Defense and Street Survival (Kindle Edition) The precursor to the full-blown defense system of Guided Chaos, "How to Fight for Your Life" presents well-written, concise, life saving information. It is devoid of the superfluous sportive techniques found in many books of this genre. In fact, while written with the civilian in mind, the skills and techniques contained within are no nonsense and lethal; applicable for life and death combat and easily trump the grappling/MMA techniques being taught in today's military. This book is well written with diagrams and pictures that aptly depict the information being presented. I would whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone looking to build a solid self-defense foundation followed by Attack Proof - 2nd Edition for follow-on training into the system of Guided Chaos.   $34.95 Introductory Price ENDS Aug. 1st ($44.95 thereafter)    HOW TO FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE: ENHANCED REALITY-BASED CLOSE COMBAT TRAINING FOR SELF-DEFENSE AND STREET SURVIVAL  NOW ON SALE IN 2 VERSIONS: 1. As a FULL-COLOR PDF with enhanced formatting  Also comes WITH a HUGE 40 minute BALANCE & FOOTWORK Video Lesson from the ATTACKPROOF COMPANION DVD Part 2.   Introductory price $34.95 (starting Aug. 1st $44.95). Available ONLY from www.GuidedChaosCombatives.com    2. AMAZON KINDLE VERSION  $9.99 (Read it on your Kindle or download FREE  Kindle software to read it on your computer. In black and white with simplified Kindle formatting.) Available ONLY from www.Amazon.com --The AMAZON PAPERBACK version will be available in approx. 1-2 weeks(depending on how fast their little book-elves work!) $15.95 (approx.) (Paperback is in black and white with enhanced formatting.) Will be available ONLY from Amazon.com    Visit the GCC website at www.GuidedChaosCombatives.com

HE'S BAAACK! LT. COL. AL RIDENHOUR HAS RETURNED FROM AFGHANISTAN Stop by class and welcome him home! And don't forget to give him a big thank you for his service to our nation. (Now everybody had better start doing their drills...)

TEXAS SEMINAR: "Let's Get a Show of Hands!"

We're looking to do a 2-day seminar in Austin in September or October. If you're in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston or Austin area, let us know if you can make it by replying to this Newsletter or sending us an email. Saturday would be an intensive Guided Chaos Combatives crash course that we guarantee will have you walking out with superior self-defense skills, no matter what your background. Sunday would be an overview of the entire Guided Chaos Adaptive Defense System, basically taking tai chi-like internal principles and supercharging them for ruthless combat in the defense of your life. Just think of it as "Tai Chi on Steroids."

GROUNDFIGHTING INSANITY!  CAN A WOMAN REALLY SURVIVE A 330 LB MAN IN HER GUARD?!  YOU MUST READ THIS

"I was talking with a woman at the gym. She was taking a self defense course where they stressed fighting out of the guard position. I asked her why she would pull someone like me (who weighs 330 Ibs) between her legs while she is flat on her back. That has the potential to be a very dangerous situation for her. It would be better if we were down there for her to kick the crap out of me while trying to get away. She looked at me funny... I hope she never has to use what she has learned." --AR Read this definitive argument written by GC student Lt. Daryl Tate, Defensive Tactics Coordinator, Training Division Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST), State of Oregon "In my humble opinion, the problem with a woman who willingly puts or allows her attacker inside her guard during physical assaults like rape, is that she is taking a huge risk that her attacker will present the opportunity to properly fight from this position. Don’t get me wrong, I know that there are plenty of competent BJJ practitioners who can snap an arm like a twig, or choke a person out within a couple of seconds, but in order to carry out these attacks, some considerations must be made. First, the assumption has to be made that the attacker has not beaten the woman half to death long before he ends up in her guard. I think most grapplers will agree that the most difficult time to pull off a submission is when your opponent is bashing your face in. In almost twenty years of policing, I have encountered many rape victims that were severely beaten before, during and after the assault. Additionally, to be successful with any type of submission, certain mechanics must be followed. It doesn’t matter how fast you are, you still have to follow the steps to make it work. This is when, I believe, many people who are highly influenced by grappling tend to glaze over. I remember observing a Defensive Tactics class at my agency just prior to taking over the program. The instructor was demonstrating a handgun retention technique from the ground that went as follows:         •     Officer places attacker in his guard         •     The attacker grabs the officer’s holstered firearm         •     Officer secures the weapon by placing his hand on top of the attacker’s grabbing hand         •     Officer sits up and places his free hand over and then under the attacker’s grabbing arm         •     Officer grabs his own wrist         •     Officer then peels the attacker’s hand off the holstered weapon         •     Officer continues moving the attacker’s hand to the back of the attacker’s head to secure a shoulder lock. I'm not sure, but I believe this is called a figure four or kimura lock. The demonstration itself was flawless, but the problem came with the students trying to remember all of the steps. I remember two students in particular that were working together. The female couldn’t have been more than 120 lbs, while her partner was an easy 265. No matter how much she tried, she just could not secure the maneuver with her partner’s gorilla like arms, let alone remember all of the steps.  The instructor made his way to me and asked what I thought. I said that it was a good technique, but that there are a lot of steps involved. The instructor assured me that by the end of the session, the students would have it down pretty well. Still seeing the perplexed look on my face, the instructor asked me what I would do in this position. I said that before the attacker ended up in my guard, I would be kicking his knees, shins, groin and even his head if he made it available, but for this position specifically, I would be punching the windpipe and/or gouging out the eyes. In contrast, my steps would look something like this:         •     Officer ends up on his back and starts to immediately deliver kicks to the knees, shins, groin and face         •     If the attacker is able to get close enough to grab the officer’s holstered firearm, then the officer will deliver a series of strikes and/or gouges to the windpipe and eyes. I’ll never forget how he stood there for several seconds with his mouth open before saying, “Yeah… that would work.” Now, could the first technique work? Sure it could, but in a life and death situation, why go through all of these extra mechanics when there is a quicker and more effective way to gain the desired result, which is to escape. Bottom line, you have to be extremely proficient to take a fixed-step defense maneuver and make it fit into a real life dynamic situation. Many grapplers would argue that fighting from the guard is totally adaptive because there are many variations of arm bars and chokes. Although true, you still can’t ignore that the success of the techniques are directly related to performing near flawless mechanics during a stressful encounter. Not impossible, but far from easy. Through Guided Chaos, I have learned a simple and effective concept in teaching law enforcement and civilians how to fight on the ground. I like to refer to it as “the scramble”. Probably the best example is the prototypical battle between a dog and cat. I don’t know how many of you have actually witnessed these two go at it, but I will tell you that nine times out of ten, a cat will whip a dog’s ass. The cat just has to be forced to fight. Inherently, the cat knows that the dog is stronger; therefore, he cannot allow the dog to use its weight to pin it down. So what does the cat do? He scrambles and claws the hell out of the dog in the process. It’s almost impossible to hold the cat down, due to the constant moving and striking. The dog wants to control first, which forces it to react at least one beat behind what the cat is doing. To make matters worse for the dog, the cat is only fighting to get away, not to stay there and battle it out with the much stronger dog. As soon as there is an opportunity to escape, the cat is gone. Similarly, if a woman is taught how to kick to the knees and groin, strike the trachea, and eye gouge while scrambling to get away, then she becomes more than a formidable opponent for the much stronger man. So let’s say that the woman is able to get up and runs, but her attacker catches her. What does she do? Personally, I think it would be pretty difficult for the attacker to catch her with a busted knee, windpipe, or missing eye, but if he is able to, then she does it again with even more ferocity. Not long ago, I had this same discussion with another instructor, and he said that fighting from the guard was especially good if the attack was sudden and occurred in an area with little room to move or scramble. Ok, I can see that, but how much room do you need to stick a finger in the eye socket, crush the throat or just claw the hell out of the face? Since this scramble concept is so close to how we react to something or someone we want to stay away from, it becomes pretty difficult for the attacker to stop it. Here’s a simple, but I think universal example: ever tried changing a one year old baby’s diaper who had other plans? Think about how the baby naturally moved and rolled to areas of least resistance. Think about how much energy you exerted, and how frustrated you became trying to contain him. Personally, there have been numerous times when my daughter nearly exhausted me trying to accomplish this task. Couple this with trying to dodge her inadvertent kicks to my groin area and you end up with a fairly refined baby self defense system.  The absolute worst was trying to put clothes on her when she would rather run around the house naked. Now, if a baby can be somewhat successful with this, imagine what an able-bodied adult with a little destructive intent could accomplish." CAN YOU SURVIVE ON THE GROUND?   ...Are you SURE? There is a world of difference between competitive submission fighting and real life and death combat, 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          The DVD... Read more or purchase   Containing almost two and a half Hours of combat reality:    •  With former forensic homicide investigator 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 his savage police assignments (where people routinely ended up in the hospital or morgue), illegal pit-fighting, World War II Close Quarters Combat, the internal aspects of tai chi and the ancient Greek combat art of Elephtheri Pali. 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 War veteran Lt. Col. Al Ridenhour USMC. Infantry unit commander and instructor of unarmed combat, he is also a GC master.   • And special guest GC 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.   "I write this letter with a sense of deep humility. Having finished watching your DVD series I can state with no fear of contradiction: Next to a real, 'living' instructor your DVD series is probably the best training that any person can hope for. It is also better than many of the instructors you get out there, because of the nonsense that so many of them teach. Thank you for the gift you have given to humanity. Your book 'Attackproof' and the 'Attackproof Companion Series' stand unparalleled in the annals of self-defence and security training." --Charl (Morpheus) Viljoen, Regional Director The Guardian Angels, Capetown, South Africa-- "The Most Violent City In the World"     "The Groundfighting DVDs are out of this world...hard to put into words how good it is." --Bob Miller, Corrections Officer    READ AN ANALYSIS OF THE GUIDED CHAOS GROUNDFIGHTING DVD: The Life-Or-Death-Difference: Guided Chaos-Modified Native American Groundfighting An Introduction to the Guided Chaos Groundfighting DVD by Ari Kandel, 3rd Degree GC / Guided Chaos Combatives READ ARTICLE DVD CHAPTERS: --Origin of Guided Chaos Modified Native American Groundfighting --Ground Fighting Reality: What Really Happens --Demo: Groundfighting with Cane and Kicking vs. Knives --Ground Avoidance Using Close Combat --Ground Kicking Drills for explosive weapon development --Rolling Drills for avoidance and attack --Stability Ball Drills for Developing Core Strength --Drill: Find the Head, destroy the computer --Combining Kicking and Rolling skills --Applying GC Contact Flow On the Ground --Using Guided Chaos On the Ground --Grappling Myths vs. Knives and how they can get you killed --The Guided Chaos Strategy: Destruction and Sensitivity vs.    Submission and Control    GC GROUNDFIGHTING--Read more or purchase DVD--Click here.

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