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NEXT MONTH, MAKE THE BIGGEST JUMP IN SELF-DEFENSE SKILLS YOU'VE EVER MADE Yes, you read that right. WHETHER YOU'RE A BEGINNER OR EXPERT, Guided Chaos' unique methods benefit all levels dramatically. In fact, for some people, advanced training in another style could be a handicap. For others, GC can be the Holy Grail you've been searching for your entire life. DAY 1: SIMPLE COMBATIVES. Walk out with skills you can use immediately. DAY 2: ADVANCED ADAPTIVE PRINCIPLES. Take the methods from Day 1 and apply to them martial arts "secrets" (actually simple science) that people spend decades trying to discover. Use them to guide your own training and achieve levels of proficiency faster than with any other system. DAY 3: GC GROUNDFIGHTING. Do you know how to SURVIVE on the ground? Are you sure? There is a world of difference between competitive submission fighting with rules and elite athletes and real, life and death self-defense for AVERAGE people, where the only rule is chaos. Don't bet your life on a sport! DAY 4: GC WEAPONS: Knife offense/defense, Cane vs. Knife, Bare Hands to Hand Guns (gun defense) The Guided Chaos 4 Day Boot Camp, May 3-6 with a special additional 5th day of live Combat Shooting for permit holders only (separate fee applies) May 2nd. Buy 1,2,3 or all 4 days.   GROUP DISCOUNTS: Save $100 per person (for 3 or more people purchasing the full 4 or 5 day Boot Camp in one credit card order). $100/person will be rebated via Paypal within 48 hours after purchase). Offer good til May 1st 2012.  Full info here

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YOUR QUESTIONS...   OVERDOING THE FRIGHT REACTION Question: On the subject of the "Fright Reaction". If I have my body conditioned to automatically go into fright reaction and a friend or one of my daughters playfully tries to scare me, couldn't I react and end up hurting some one I care about? Also, how many times do I need to practice the "Fright Reaction" before it becomes second nature to me? Answer: Good questions. You're leaving out the key component of "context" though: WHERE and WHEN you are being frightened is the thing that you train to trigger your Fright Reaction (FR): --When you're alone in an empty house --When out in public --In a foreign environment ...etc., etc. Unless you are emotionally unstable or have stoked a paranoia in yourself, you won't go into a Fright Reaction in your own home with your family around or at work around your colleagues...unless your work situation involves danger or your colleagues are jerks. Jerks will learn their lesson soon enough. Do not make yourself paranoid: you cannot live in a constant state of Red Alert. All you're trying to do is avoid becoming oblivious in the wrong situations like most people. When you're walking to your car at night or some other environment where your awareness SHOULD be up (as opposed to talking on your cellphone, texting, listening to an iPod, etc.) and feel or hear a threat that you didn't otherwise see, then BANG, you go into a FR. By the way, no one should be hurt from your FR unless they're right on top of you accosting you and they eat your elbows when you raise them into the protective position. Striking comes after you've IDENTIFIED the threat. As far as how long it takes to develop the FR, it is entirely dependent on the individual. The main challenge is learning how to Drop properly. The second challenge is reaction time: Some people are in a fog most of the time and are slow reactors (and learners). Others are hair trigger and need to cut down on the caffeine! Hope this helps. --MKovsky WHAT TYPE OF PERSON MAKES THE BEST GUIDED CHAOS WARRIOR? Question: You guys probably get more philosophical type questions than you may care for, so sorry to be adding to that category. Here is my question as we sit at the bar drinking our beer. In every area of human activity there are those who excel the most, whether that activity be physical (as in sports) or intellectual (science, mathematics, literature, etc.). Now certainly hard work and motivation plays a major part. However, being gifted is no doubt what separates the very good from the great. And of course being gifted in something motivates them to achieve in that area. So my question is what attributes (or gifts) makes one achieve the highest level in guided chaos? You say that it is not a sport nor is it a purely intellectual activity. So let me put the question this way: how would you select little Jedi Chaos Warriors? What would you look for in the young students if you wanted to build up a school of great warriors from such young material? Answer: Great questions. Now right off the bat, there's just no getting around it: size, strength, speed and athletic ability matter. If you've got them, you'll always have an advantage despite any super-secret Ninja knowledge you might acquire. That being said, GC relies exclusively on movement principles to maximize whatever attributes you've got--so that if you're NOT an Olympic athlete you can still reach tremendous skill and performance levels--and the physical gifts just become gravy. Can't say that for arts that rely exclusively on physical gifts (usually external styles). That being said, great physical gifts can be a handicap if you rely on them as a crutch and a substitute for true internal development. And since GC is so different than most arts, the old adage of "Empty your cup" (have an open mind) is never truer. So even though GC shares many principles (in theory) with tai chi, often we get advanced tai chi players with closed minds and they wind up learning slower than someone who knows nothing. Then again, we've also had advanced tai chi students who recognized GC as the "missing link" they've been searching for their whole lives and then their skill level just explodes. So the ideal candidate? I could say a superior athlete with an open mind but I'd like to answer the question differently: the best person for this art is the person who would get more benefit from Guided Chaos than from any other art. Women, smaller, weaker men, etc., who also have open minds.  Because let's face it: GC is all about the principles. Big, strong, fast people already have all the advantages. Think about the physical condition of  both of GC's Grandmaster's and you'll get it instantly.  P.S. As far as young warriors, we ordinarily don't train people under the age of 17 because of GC's esoteric and serious nature. --MKovsky

THE FAILURE OF MOST SELF-DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND TEACHERS      Got a really good email discussion going (started by John) that we're making public on our Forum, Blog and Facebook pages. We will be putting up a new email response each day. In the meantime, add your own thoughts!

FACING DEATH...   "This is a great and informative short (4 min) video about some of the dangers of law enforcement and some of the heroes who have encountered and survived situations no officer or any other person ever want to have to face.  The great thing is that every officer, although they may not want to face it, when faced with it will do their job, fight the fight and live or die with the consequences." "I would have this shown twice at every basic academy program. Once, when training begins . . . and then once again, at graduation"--Brad Steiner

YOU ASKED FOR IT... ...and you're going to get it! We promised you that something BIG was coming to Guided Chaos but like all great things, it's taking a little longer than we expected. When it does it's going to make a lot of people very happy.

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DEFEND AGAINST A GUN? MORE IMPORTANTLY-- DO YOU KNOW WHEN--AND WHEN NOT TO? BARE HANDS TO HAND GUNS PART 4 OF THE GUIDED CHAOS WEAPONS SERIES DVDS You can be the best target shooter in the world but if you can't fight HAND-TO-HAND at CLOSE RANGE you will never even GET to your gun. Worse, you could be shot with your own weapon! And if you get the microsecond to draw, traditional Isosceles or Weaver stances could get you killed. MORE INFO    PART 1: KNIFE OFFENSE | PART 2: KNIFE DEFENSE PART 3: CANE VS. KNIFE | PART 4: BARE HANDS TO HAND GUNS

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"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

"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

"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.

"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
 

"...through watching videos put out by attackproof.com, and by
reading Attackproof, the book, I have learned real survival skills.
These skills have been learned...at an exponentially higher practical
yield-per-hour training rate than any other martial art classes or
seminar I've ever attended, or ever even heard rumor of."
--Matthew Shoener, Police Officer, Scranton, PA 

"The Companion Video Part One is stupendous!
A godsend of detail for out-of-state practitioners."
--Mark from Chicago

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