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THE TROUBLE WITH PUSH HANDS     Too much pushing. Push hands is a wonderful tai chi exercise that promotes balance, coordination and health. Unfortunately, as it is typically practiced (your school may be different...but it's rare), it has almost no benefit in training to fight for your life. Granted, push hands is not fighting, it's an exercise. Neither is GC's Contact Flow. But if you're going to spend time training self-defense, shouldn't it have some specific relevance to real combat? Top 4 problems:  1.  Too much pushing. Any fight that involves pushing is one you should have avoided in the first place because it's not serious. Run. If you can't run, and you feel like you could die, then fight like your life depends on it. That means crippling, penetrating strikes to lethal targets. What does this have to do with slow push hands training? Well...nothing. Even high speed, full force pushing and throwing at the push hands competitive level...is still pushing. Do you have the skill to push someone twice your size hard enough to disable them? Maybe--if you're a grand champion. But even a 100 pound woman can stop a monster with a chop to the throat or stab to the eye. The trick--is HOW to get it past his defenses...AND elude his attack. All that pushing training, even initially, blinds and cripples your innate response to real violence the way it really happens. "But I could easily translate my pushing skills into crippling combat strikes if the need arose." Dream on. Forget about pushing or being pushed. Learn to feel, find, create and hit through an opening--and avoid the same to you. Solution: substitute every variation of striking from any angle to any angle with balance and body unity instead of pushing, but still maintain contact. You will still be working balance and rooting but from the combatively REAL dynamic perspective of "Kill or Be Killed." Push only to create an opening you can hit through and then hit...like a sewing machine. And what about kicking? Why not use your feet with the same offensive/defensive sensitivity as your hands? What do we call this? Contact Flow. How do you hit at close range without getting hit, getting tight, grappling or breaking contact? Stay tuned to coming Newsletters...or you can dive right into our DVDs...or better yet, come to a class. 2. Inconsistent speed. Practitioners will move slowly, feeling each other out, seeking the other's root, and then "faj" or explode rapidly to launch them backwards. This promotes utterly unrealistic reflexes. Two people fighting are essentially moving at one speed--super fast!--and one or the other may be going just slightly slower or quicker. Moving very slowly and then very quickly in partner practice not only destroys both your defensive and offensive responses--it creates in your mind a false expectation of violence. If 2 people are moving at maximum speed, can one of them suddenly go twice that? No, not unless they're Superman. Then why train that way? Solution: flow at one speed. If moving slowly, learn to create and seal openings at that speed, NON-COOPERATIVELY, without cheating. This promotes sensitivity and adaptivity, especially when training at consistent slow speeds. 3. Cooperative training. To expand on the above, any kind of patterned, cooperative partner training is worse than useless; essentially sabotaging your nervous system against future attacks. You CAN cooperate on speed and force levels because if you're overwhelmed you can't learn to sense and create...and wind up flailing and freezing...and getting injured. Speed and force can be added in later. You need to become familiar with interpreting and responding to unpatterned motion--chaos--right from the beginning, and we're going to guide you through it. If not understood, specific attributes such as Looseness, Body Unity, Balance and Sensitivity need to be isolated out through specific drills but they should never be mixed in with 2 person practice cooperatively or they become a future recipe for disaster. Contact Flow incorporates all of these within the context of fighting to save your life--even if you're BOTH moving at only 1 mile per hour. 4. False beginnings. How do you start push hands? By touching hands? By stepping in with a big push? By tentatively "reeling silk" until you have joined with your partner's root? This is fine for push hands but disastrous for training your responses to fight to save your life. If you can't run from impending violence you want to do what Professor Bradley Steiner (President, International Combat Martial Arts Association) recommends: Attack the Attacker! However, you do not want to just charge in like a Rhino (unless maybe you are a Rhino--in which case who would attack you?). You want to do what GM Perkins advises: Throw a monkey wrench into their attack. This entails moving in but offline simultaneously. This takes practice, and beginning your two-person practice like a waltz is another future recipe for disaster. How to develop Contact Flow? See the Attackproof Companion Part 3 (DVD or On Demand Download) How to independently develop Balance, Body Unity, Looseness, Sensitivity and all the attributes mentioned above for use in Contact Flow? See the Attackproof Companion Part 2 (DVD or On Demand Download) and Combat Conditioning (DVD or On Demand Download)     --MKovsky

ROAD RAGE IN LA     Disturbing Video How many things can you find wrong with this video? Here's a start:   1. Don't get involved in testosterone challenges unless it is to protect you or your loved ones 2. Don't try high kicks 3. Awareness - friends always jump in 4. Once he attempts to grapple back is when they overpower him   What would you do? --Thanks to Kevin for the link.

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KILL THE ENEMY: Close Quarters Combat for U.S. Military Personnel "The Kill the Enemy video is the greatest work of modern combat of our time! In the dirty bloody world of real combat there are no second place winners. In combat there is only Kill and come home. John trains you for just such an encounter. There is nothing in the world that can ever prepare you for the harsh cold reality of combat, but John Perkins has found a way to bridge the gap between school and real world no-holds-barred REALITY!" --Captain Jonathan Edwards, 101st Airborne/Air Assault POLITICALLY INCORRECT HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT...?   In 1989, the RUSSIANS instituted a hand-to-hand combat methodology that far surpassed ours in terms of SIMPLICITY and EFFECTIVENESS. Ironically, it was nearly IDENTICAL to the system OUR military used--BACK IN WORLD WAR II!! WHAT HAPPENED?!! Through a political process too convoluted and distressing to elaborate on here, over the years, our soldiers' hand-to-hand training has become convoluted, mis-directed, and relatively ineffective except under "sportive  or "competitive" (i.e. unrealistic) conditions. KILL THE ENEMY is a simple video guide that does away with the boxing-grappling-locking nonsense that has become the "politically correct" standard of training for our soldiers in recent years. Instead of subjecting our military personnel to methods that could get them killed, Master Perkins and Lieutenent Colonel Ridenhour USMC provide basic, effective methods proven in World War II. Distilled from Part 1 of our book ATTACK PROOF, these strategies (Guided Chaos Combatives) are the basic tools that John Perkins' Guided Chaos builds upon. Topics include: Comparison: US vs. Russian Hand-to-Hand Training The Myth of Grappling Defensive/Offensive Posture Basic Hand Strikes Bag/Dummy Training/10 Seconds of Hell Wrestling the Rifle Covering Your Back A Fantasy Knife Fight Rear Choke Scenarios Ground Fighting Fantasies Conclusion: History Doesn't Lie! BUY NOW

CAN YOU SURVIVE ON THE GROUND?   The Fantasy: A 100 pound woman can fight off a 200 pound man from the Guard position (much less mount him for a "ground and pound"!)                  ...ARE YOU SURE?     • Do you really want to be locked tight to a dangerous enemy-- who may have weapons or accomplices ready to kick your brains in? • Do you really want to Mount or go into the Guard position against someone bigger and stronger than you? • If you're a woman, can you REALLY grapple with a stronger man...and live to tell about it? There is a world of difference between competitive submission fighting with rules and elite athletes... ...and real, life-and-death self-defense for REGULAR people, 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 2 DISC DVD SET MODIFIED NATIVE AMERICAN COMBAT   We focus on:  • Evasion • Ground Mobility • Ground Kicking • Ground Avoidance • Multiple Attackers • Knife Attacks • Penetrating defenses and striking to the eyes and throat OUR CRITICS SAY: "We can hit the eyes and throat too, so what's the difference?" The difference is that we're better at it--as well as defending against it, because both require Sensitivity and Adaptation--something we train exclusively. YOUR INSTRUCTORS: Former forensic crime scene expert 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 over 100 extremely violent arrests (where people routinely ended up in the hospital or morgue), unsanctioned pit-fighting, World War II Close Quarters Combat, the internal aspects of tai chi and the ancient Greek combat art of Elephtheri Pali. In 1978, he formally created Ki Chuan Do and the principles of Guided Chaos [in1998 he officially changed the name of the art itself to Guided Chaos]. 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 and Afghanistan combat veteran Lt. Col. Al Ridenhour USMC: Infantry unit commander and instructor of unarmed combat, he is also a Guided Chaos Master. Security Manager, Assistant Operations Officer, and the Anti-Terrorism Force Protection Officer for the II Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq. Worked with U.S. Customs Service and U.S. Border Patrol for the JTF-6 counter drug mission. Has trained current and former members of US Marines, US Army Special Forces, NYPD, US Air Force OSI and US Air Marshal Service   Guided Chaos 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.  GUIDED CHAOS GROUNDFIGHTING--BUY NOW

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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
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--Matthew Shoener, Police Officer, Scranton, PA 

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A godsend of detail for out-of-state practitioners."
--Mark from Chicago

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