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| If you want to hear a really comprehensive radio overview of Guided Chaos, check out Sifu Ken Gullete's Internal Fighting Arts Podcast with GC 4th degree Ari Kandel. It is well worth your time. Ken has taught Yang and Chen Tai Chi, Hsing-I, Bagua, and has a black sash in Yiliquan.
As Ken explains:
"Sometimes truth can be found outside the art you are studying...this is a good interview that all internal artists -- hell, all martial artists -- need to hear, even if, like me, you intend to live the rest of your life without being attacked by a someone who really wants to harm you. Because you just never know, do you?"
By the way, Sifu Ken will be at the GC CINCINNATI GHOST HITTING SEMINAR Sept.19-20. Enroll now and you can exchange training notes with this top-level internal arts instructor. But you don't have to wait that long--the GC KANSAS CITY SEMINAR is coming April 18-19! BOTH are open to all levels and all styles and discounts are available. |
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Speaking of Ari Kandel, check out his latest blog post below and on his website where you can also comment.
Our conscious mind puts artificial limits on our abilities.
I
remember what Lt. Col. Al told me many times during contact flow, when I
felt "stuck": "You can always get looser than you think you can."
It
was my conscious mind's deciding that I was "stuck" and unable to move
that actually made me stuck and unable to move. Once Al paused and
pointed that out, he made me aware that I still had more slack left in
my body, and it was a simple matter of slightly sinking and allowing
everything to unfurl that enabled me to not only negate his attempt to
control me, but also counterattack in the same motion. Conscious
judgement distorts perception of reality.
Many students during
simple weight shifting exercises "think" they are fully rooted on one
leg, but when they're challenged to isolate and move the unweighted leg
without changing the rest of the body or creating tension, they find
that they haven't actually shifted their weight far enough. But their
conscious mind had been telling them that they had gone as far as they
could go!
[Editor's note: One way to break this habit is to add a Vacuum Walk to each end of the weight shifting drill, e.g. Turning, Rolling the Ball, Starting the Mower, Dry Land Swimming, etc. because if you're not fully shifted, you can't Vac Walk properly. These are explained on the Attackproof Companion Part 2 and Combat Conditioning DVDs (also available as On Demand Instant Downloads)--Matt K]
This is yet another reason why the conscious mind
cannot be relied upon to perceive and control combative movement. Even
if it were able to perceive the true nature of chaotic movement in real
time (which it can't), it places artificial limits on what's possible
based on experience and a tendency to stay in the "comfort zone".
The
subconscious knows no such limitations. It will allow and enable the
body to move to its fullest ability within its true structural limits to
accomplish whatever is needed for self-preservation. This is where
creativity, the ability to make or do something new, springs from.
Today
my first grader, when confronted during her homework with a math
problem she did not immediately consciously recall how to solve, stated,
"I can't do it!" Doubtless that's what her conscious mind was telling
her. A brief break, including a brief explanation of why saying "I
can't" is not a good thing, then she looked at the problem again and
spontaneously remembered how to solve it. Doubtless her subconscious was
recalling or formulating a solution behind the scenes even while her
conscious mind was stopping her progress by telling her she couldn't do
it.
In training and in life, pay no heed to the conscious mind's
self-imposed limitations. You're capable of a lot more than you "think"
you're capable of, when the doubting conscious mind is able to step
aside and allow subconscious creativity to manifest.
Happy non-thinking! |
| THE "GUIDED CHAOS" OF ARCHERY??
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| "This Guy's INSANE Archery Skills Will Blow Your Mind!"
...but the really amazing thing you realize as you listen to him demolish tenets of "traditional archery" is how the whole concept of "traditional" has been twisted by "modern" archers--and how this parallels what John Perkins has been saying about self defense and firearms since the '70s.
Watch/read these links:
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2015/01/23/guys-insane-archery-skills-will-blow-mind-video/
http://www.outdoorhub.com/stories/2013/07/08/lars-andersen-artist-historian-and-amazing-archer/
"Danish archer Lars Andersen might be the most accomplished
archer of our time. Not because of any awards or medals, but purely
because of what he has accomplished by studying ancient texts and paintings.
Andersen posted a video on Friday attempting to disprove the
Hollywood myth of archery. Not only that, he explains how the art of
archery is lost on today's archers because a majority of them stand still and
aim at their target rather than be able to run, shoot, and hit their targets
while also being able to shoot rapidly.
Andersen says that the ultimate feat in archery for him was
to hit an arrow in the air, which he thought was impossible.
“For me this is the ultimate archery, which I until recently
had thought was impossible. It can be done, but requires the handling of
the bow and arrow to become completely bodily. You may not have time to
aim or think, and you must first be completely convinced you hit, you see,
"feel" the incoming arrow and shoot in an instant.”
LtCol Al writes:
Goes to show you what you
can do with proper Body Unity.
Lars Andersen states:
"It can be done, but requires the handling of the
bow and arrow to become completely bodily. You may not have time to aim
or think..."
Gee now where have I heard that before?
When people learn to get out of their
own way and focus on developing their whole body to do such things a lot of
epiphanies happen and they begin to discover what the art of
the possible is.
There is a lot of lost knowledge
out there and because people either don't have the time nor see the importance of it they don't develop the skill
necessary to do such things.
I also believe that many people today are too enamored of fancy weapons such as cool looking guns with every type of optic and doodad to understand the importance of developing such skills. Anyone can buy a weapon but not all can become one.
Or they are taken in by faddish martial arts systems
that conform to their preconceived notions of
fighting where the movement is neither dynamic nor realistic and thus in
their mind's eye "safe".
GM Perkins writes:
Al is correct on this...GC is a whole body/mind experience...Your point about
becoming the weapon....That is what Musashi and many great warriors talked
about...Your sword or gun is an extension of yourself...I agree on your
epiphanies leading a person to the art of the possible...Which can also go
beyond what folks think is possible...This occurs in teaching some of your students GC despite what they felt as
limitations which disappear causing their seemingly impossible
development.
I have heard
that the Comanche Indians could fire 7 arrows while riding in battle faster
than a cavalryman could fire 6 rounds from his revolver....Most folks thought
that was not true....I have always believed that...I never could even picture
how it was done or even approach that...But with Lars Anderson's method it
could be done...This would take years
of practice...You would have to be able to ride without reins and stay seated
and move in all sorts of directions and shoot without losing arrows...
Master Harrell writes:
Now when you guys talk about the art of the possible
I totally get it (as opposed to before GC, when I was a member of the flat
earth society).
Limitations in other arts are real but not so in GC because within GC as we
develop our bodies to be a complete weapon we realize that our so called
limitations are not permanent or maybe better put is that there are ways around
them. Early on in my training in GC when you use to articulate that no matter
how strong, big, or fast you are there is always somebody stronger, bigger or faster,
that made me place my arthritic problems in the exact same scheme of things
meaning that my problem is not any different then tackling a stronger,
bigger or faster person--it is just something to work on overcoming.
In a lot of ways I truly believe that my arthritis helped in my development
because I had to learn how to move to relieve the torque in my knees and hips
protecting myself from further damage. Since I was always trying to move slow I
was aware when I was about to place torque on my knees or hips so I would shift
the motion or direction of my feet or body not allowing me to experience any
pain that could be avoided.
If I was in perfect shape or health I might not have
seen the need to develop the way I did.
Evan Yeung writes:
Here are two takeaway points
that relate to GC that I see from this video:
1) Respectfully question the status quo: Sport archery is a different breed
than archery for war. When something is removed from its original purpose, it
changes and can add inefficiency, because that inefficiency is not penalized.
Lars has questioned what has become orthodox, and because of it has
rediscovered its roots.
2) Efficiency of movement: If you compare the competition of "shots fired
per second," the other competitors have at least 3-4 steps using
long/broad movements to fire their arrows. Lars just used one. Also the
discussion of firing from the right side instead of the left so you don't have
to lift the arrow over the bow cuts down on at least 4 feet of travel distance
of the tip of the arrow. Just like Contact Flow gradually teaches us to move
more efficiently, Lars has refined his movements, is moving less, yet is firing
far faster than his counterparts...no wasted movement!
Ari Kandel writes:
Lars is using his whole
body subconsciously to accurately shoot a weapon while in motion against moving
targets in "as demanded" timeframes. See this quote from the article
I linked above:
“I aim without any kind of anchor point or fixed draw length,
and I can switch the bow between both hands. Perhaps I do have an advantage
because I am an artist, because I am really good at turning objects inside my
head in three dimensions. It makes it easier for me to shoot a bow without
having to use fixed points.”
No fixed positions, pure right-brain imagery. I
imagine this man would be VERY deadly at close quarters with firearms. His last
quote in the article though, pertaining to teaching, should remind us of how
lucky we are that John has figured out how to transmit such skills where even
Mr. Andersen feels he has failed, and needs to revert to "fixed
points" teaching. |
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| | 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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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 |
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