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| | | | "Spooky" maybe...but there will be no "supernatural chi" crap in the Ghost Hitting Seminar--just nasty ways to:
PENETRATE ENEMY DEFENSES
WITH UNSTOPPABLE POWER,
WHILE REMAINING INVISIBLE TO ATTACKS
So many systems have you clashing with the attacker...as if bad guys didn't hit back or defend themselves!
In this seminar you will learn how to skim, slide, step, fold, pivot, turn, isolate, tool replace--essentially to "ghost" your way in to lethal targets...and hit them with "supernatural" Dropping power rarely found even in so called "internal" martial arts...yet solidly based in physics and anatomy.
- No Dueling
- No Forms
- No Nonsense
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| One of the early names for Guided Chaos (before we decided to stop revering all things "Eastern"*) was "Ghostfist". This name embodied the key Guided Chaos principles:
"Be Unavailable Yet Unavoidable"
"Hit without being hit"
Whether you are a beginner or expert, we will be focusing on developing this ability in all participants at the San Francisco seminar with critically important GC exercises. Don't miss it!
“Change the way you move, change the way you think, change the way you fight…”
DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE--CLICK FOR MORE INFO
*Especially since GC was created in Yonkers NY.
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| INTERNAL FIGHTING DYNAMICS SEMINAR
OCT. 18-19 AT UNITY MARTIAL ARTS ACADEMY, UK
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| EARLY ORDER DISCOUNT ENDS SEPT. 1ST |
| CALLING ALL INTERNAL STYLISTS...
Are you battle ready?
Can you fight for your life--Right Now?
Is something missing from your current training?
Learn ruthless Internal fighting Principles and put teeth in your tai chi, bagua, hsing-i and other internal training. |
| WHO IS THIS SEMINAR FOR?
• You've trained hard, yet you feel something's missing...
...or you've been in a serious fight and couldn't escape and somehow, in the face of real violence, everything became chaos. You felt weak, slow, unbalanced and all the push hands practice or techniques that were so easy to execute in class...disintegrated. Maybe you were seriously hurt. And then it hits you:
• You’re a dedicated Tai Chi “push-hands” player who, after 20 years, suddenly realizes four things:
1) That you're no closer to finding the true meaning and martial application of tai chi principles such as silk reeling, leading, following, borrowing, folding, receiving, turning, collecting, empty-solid, yin-yang, peng ching, etc. then when you started.
2) That you’re no closer to understanding or performing mystical feats of “Chi” then when you started.
3) That endless microscopic examination of proper form is preventing you from seeing the bigger picture: that practicing patterned techniques and forms doesn't make you formless, spontaneous or adaptive to the chaos of REAL violence. In fact, it cripples your ability to apply internal principles to true fighting and life and death combat.
4) As far as you can tell--Combat Tai Chi for self defense no longer exists. |
| “Change the way you move, change the way
you think,
change the way you fight…” |
| | JUST THREE OF MANY INTERNAL STYLISTS ENDORSING GUIDED CHAOS:
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"John Perkins has mastered the real world application of Combat Tai Chi"
---Dr.
Drew Miller, Coordinator of Degerberg Martial Arts Academy, Chicago
Illinois, former senior student of Tai Chi Master Wayson Liao |
| "I have been a
baguazhang and tai chi practitioner for about 16 years and I have
studied high stress combatives based on the WWII combato and defendo
system. You do the best job of anyone I have seen putting this stuff
together in a usable package."
---Bill Goble |
| "John Perkins is the only master I have found that has created a proven
methodology that actually teaches you how to develop for yourself the combative
attributes mentioned in the various internal martial arts."
--John C. J. Chen, 4th Degree Black Belt Wu-Tan
system, Tai Chi Chuan, Bagua, Praying
Mantis instructor. Expert in the Royal Bodyguard
System from Taiwan – Baji Chuan. Ba'z Tai Chi & Kung Fu
Studio Philadelphia, PA
More Endorsements More about "Combat" tai chi
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| | PINCHING AND FACE RAKING...
QUESTION:
"What is your opinion of self defense courses that focus only on pinching the skin to break out of a hold and face raking?"
ANSWER:
You can never rely on one thing. Pinching, tearing and gouging the skin is valid when your hands are trapped against his body and eye or throat strikes are impossible. For example ripping flesh out of his armpit or sides where the skin is thin when your hands are pinned against him. One of the best ways to develop tremendous ripping and hitting power is with Slambag Training. Of course this does not include head butts, foot stomps, biting his throat, knees to testicles, etc., etc...and many of these are possible simultaneously.
#1. Don't get locked in the first place (see Awareness and Fright Reaction sections of our books and dvds.)
#2. Learn to flow out of holds by Sensitivity development through the Contact Flow exercise.
#3. Learn to viciously employ any weapon that is free--again, part of Contact Flow training.
--MattK
HOW TO DEVELOP UNCONVENTIONAL STRIKING IN GC...
QUESTION:
"Seems to me that one of the unique characteristics of GC are the unconventional strikes. The ones that come out of nowhere, from parts of the body that shouldn't "have been able" to deliver a strike, etc.
As a distance learner, I am trying to develop this ability in myself and in our training group.
I realize that these strikes should manifest from the presence of the GC principles in our movement. They can also be developed from practice of the various solo drills, especially polishing the sphere, anywhere striking drill(s), etc.
However, beyond those, I have been trying to come up with a way to provide simple, reliable examples and guidelines for movement of how these movement are frequently created. That way our group can practice these movements/concepts, and eventually start to integrate them into what we do. Not as techniques, of course, but as possibilities of movement. I do realize that striking shouldn't even be necessarily intentional but your opponent should really just "fall into them"...
These are some ways I see these movements arising:
1) Going from elbow extension to flexion, and vice versa. This could be a palm heel strike to the head, extension, in which then is turned into elbow flexion with a resulting ripping attack to the eyes, jaw, etc. Or could be an uppercut to the jaw, slightly from the side, which then extends out and then bicep strikes the jaw also, followed by a top of the fist hammerfist strike to the head as the elbow flexes.
2) Shortened weapon. Seems that shortening the weapon, especially the shoulder, has a lot of potential for unique strikes. For example, spearing elbow to head, followed by shortening the shoulder/elbow and striking with a chop or hammerfist.
3) Ricocheting energy-For example-punch to the solar plexus that ricochets into uppercut to jaw. (Same with skimming energy).
4) Dropping-With dropping, seems as if almost anything can be used as a weapon, and is therefore very deceptive. Same with good footwork.
5) Direction changes-Changing direction of a strike to make it into a totally different type of strike. Uppercut to the jaw turned into a hammerfist to the throat, for example. Or, a straight strike that is knocked aside and with the power of the 5 principles, turns into an ridgehand to the back of their head. (That is elbow extension/flexion also). Same with downward punch to groin that reverses and becomes an elbow to throat.
6) Always moving into the area of low-resistance and towards their center-When you aren't feeling resistance to moving forward, move into their space with whatever....chest, shoulder, headbutt, etc.
7) Multihitting-of course, which uses a lot of these same ideas.
Anyone have any thoughts of either specific favorite "sneaky strikes" or concepts of how these movements patterns can be created, such as the concepts I listed above? (Aside from adhering to the 5 principles, of course. We are working on those)!"
ANSWERS:
Good ideas...
I would suggest that in looking at "sneaky" strikes, you might want to look at something other than the strikes themselves, which are simply bone collisions resulting from everything that happened just before. As Grandmaster Tim told me early on when I was baffled about why I couldn't manage to evade his apparently simple, slow, straight punches to my gut: "It's not the punch itself, but the 10 or 15 things that happened before the punch. You may have felt only 5 or 6 of those things, but I felt and used to my advantage 10 or 15. The better you get, the more you'll feel, and the more I'll have to do to stay ahead." Or something like that.
Some specifics:
1) Moving less--putting your whole body into a good place and allowing him to run into stuff
2) Isolation--keeping your hands/arms where they are relative to him and/or giving equal pressure while repositioning your body to create new angles
3) Tool Replacement--keeping the feeling constant for him while actually switching out the point of contact, hence freeing a limb to go somewhere else
4) Moving almost completely from the feet, not from the upper body, smoothly and slowly--the illusion is that you haven't moved at all, yet "suddenly" you're in a different place and hitting
Should keep you and the guys busy for a little while. . . . ;)
--Ari Kandel, GC 4th degree
[*NOTE TO FLORIDIANS: Ari has relocated to the Ft. Lauderdale area. If you are interested in private or group lessons with him, contact us or reply to this Newsletter]
For simplicity's sake when teaching we have organized strikes into categories:
1. Skimming (you skim by attacker's defenses)
2. Sliding (you allow attacker's limb to slide by your reference point, which often leads to tool replacements)
3. Folding (reference point is hand or nearby, elbow folds in to hit)
4. Pivoting (ref. point is elbow or nearby, forearm pivots off elbow, striking with chop, claw, hammerfist, etc.)
5. Turning (the simplest--attacker's strike rotates your body like a revolving door, he gets slammed with Ari's aforementioned bone collisions)
6. Weaseling or "ghosting" (your body and strikes "thread the needle" of the attacker's defense, hitting with whatever tool is appropriate for the target)
There are more but all of them flow out of natural motion and you can't really think about them while doing CF; the strikes are dictated by the attacker's pressure and structure at any given moment. Use the Anywhere Striking Series drills to work every type of strike to every possible target.
--MattK
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Mir Popal and Rob Casanova who were promoted to GC 2nd degree at the August 24th Master Class and Jerry Webster to 4th.
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"This Ain't Your Daddy's Iron Palm Bag!"
GUIDED CHAOS™ BRANDED SLAMBAGS
Develop accurate, crushing, hand power for strikes and gouges
"As
soon as I began using it, I was HOOKED! ...I have long practiced
grasping/striking activities against heavy bags and using different hand
grips - round balls, piston push grips, etc. However, the Slam bag
supersedes ALL of these in my opinion. It does it ALL and more. Just
passing it from left to right hands and clawing it - either sideways or
pancake style helps create strength and coordination...I even surprised
myself at how overwhelmed I was as soon as I started using it." --David H. Smith, Student of Professor Bradley Steiner
Instead
of "toughening" your hands with a typical iron palm bag and possibly
developing painful arthritis as well as thick, ugly, useless callouses, why
not turn your hand strikes into "smart bombs" so that all your chops,
punches, gouges, rips and tears explode with devastating crushing power
and dead-on, free-form timing and accuracy! (The most overlooked
qualities in hand weapon development). The Guided Chaos method of strike
training using Dropping Force greatly improves hand strength, timing,
balance, and sudden impact power while simultaneously developing your
tissue and tendon strength without creating ugly and useless "makiwara"
callouses. Get
your tough, tan, double-stitched cowhide SLAMBAG with the GC logo
hot-branded on both sides and start hitting like a jackhammer.
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"GUIDED CHAOS IS THE GREASE THAT MAKES ALL YOUR OTHER TRAINING WORK BETTER."
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"Brilliant Self Defence System. I cannot get enough of it."
"Doug
is of the honest opinion that GC Combatives and GC Adaptive Defense is
the most practical form of real world self protection he has studied to
date."
---Sifu Doug Clark, Instructor Level Technician of Ving Tsun and Practitioner of Tai Ji Quan www.functionalcombatsystems.com |
| | ENDORSEMENTS:
Blitz magazine article on Guided Chaos Australia Seminar:
"Let me start by saying I thought I'd seen all that the world of 'reality-based self defence' had to offer, so for the easily bored out there, I'll cut to the chase. What I witnessed on the weekend of 26 and 27 March is the closest thing I've come across that resembles a modern-day, reality-based martial art and not just another 'combatives system'. Does it work? Hell, yeah! I got my arse well and truly kicked and at times felt like I was in the middle of a Jason Bourne fight scene."
--Clive Girdham, former Senshido and Geoff Thompson instructor
[Excerpted from the exclusive review of the Guided Chaos Australia Seminar in the Aug. print edition of BLITZ MAGAZINE: Australia's #1 Martial Arts magazine volume 25, issue 6
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| "Guided Chaos is the only training in my 15 plus years of Corrections that translates into real world application, period."
"Guided
Chaos is the only thing that has worked for me in real life situations.
Unless you are 6'3" and 285 lbs of muscle, most of the Defensive
Tactics stuff (ok all of the Defensive Tactics stuff) will get you hurt.
And even if you are that big and strong, there is always someone
bigger and stronger and there may be a lot of them. Nothing like dealing
with one guy and it turns into a free for all with all his buddies.
This is where you literally need to 'adapt or die' and Guided Chaos is
the only training in my 15 plus years of Corrections that translates
into real world application, period."
---Bob Miller, Corrections Officer at the largest facility in Oregon |
| "If I had to pick only one martial arts system in the world it would be Guided Chaos..."--Dr. Robert L. O'Block founder and publisher of the American College of Forensic Examiners International, American Board for Certification in Homeland Security
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--Mark from Chicago
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