GUIDED CHAOS NEWS #156

HOW TO FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE: ENHANCED REALITY-BASED CLOSE COMBAT TRAINING FOR SELF-DEFENSE AND STREET SURVIVAL   ...is the title of the forthcoming Guided Chaos Combatives eBOOK. It should be available to the public by late June. Sorry for the delay, we're making it bigger, better and in different versions and prices depending on your needs: a stand-alone eBook, a paperback and as a Premium Package with key GC Balance and Footwork video download lessons at a higher price. Details coming...   THE GCC SELF-DEFENSE AND STREET SURVIVAL eBOOK: --IS QUICK, EASY-TO-LEARN AND DEVASTATING --DOESN'T TAKE YEARS TO MASTER --HAS TONS OF PHOTOS AND DRILLS --HELPS YOU DEVELOP THE SURVIVAL MINDSET, STRIKES AND     STRATEGIES FOR SAVING YOUR LIFE WHEN THE SPIT HITS THE FAN. --HAS OVER 50 "STREET SMART" AWARENESS TIPS    THAT DON'T EVEN INVOLVE FIGHTING! CONGRATULATIONS! ...To Yosef Susskind who was just promoted to Guided Chaos 3rd degree and to Jeanine Paolo who received her 1st degree. GUIDED CHAOS HITS THE ROAD IN 2010  We've got a heavy away seminar schedule developing later this year. Organize a group of 20 or more people and we'll bring our crew to you.   Stay in touch--check out the official Guided Chaos Facebook page.

BODY BUILDING AND GUIDED CHAOS   by GM Perkins

Can You Do Both? I'm often asked if Guided Chaos and Bodybuilding are compatible and if developing large muscles interferes with GC development. Body building and GC are not mutually exclusive in any way, shape or form. As I have often said, weight training is a good adjunct to training for GC. While stimulating the full gamut of muscular contraction during weight training may, at first, get in the way of fluid, sensitive movement, it does not have to remain that way. By carefully stretching before and after body building or strength training you can, in time, add the attribute of muscular weight to your arsenal. It takes more time to control the extra muscle and strength but it can have some possible advantages for some folks. What's Your Body Type? If you are an ecto-mesomorph (small bones/large muscles) like Bruce Lee, then weight training is a plus right at the start. If you are an ectomorph (skinny) then some form of strength training will help. If you are a true Mesomorph (Hercules type) then you can do anything to stimulate your muscular strength but may wish to hold back on too much development. An endomorph (naturally heavy) person will gain calorie burning potential by weight training because the more muscle you have, the faster you burn calories. When GC and Body Building Mix Right As you can see in these photos, Mesomorphs look scary--and they are. Michael (on the right in the top photo) displays an arm that most bodybuilders would be envious of. He is a 6th degree Master of GC and has integrated both disciplines into his everyday training with great results. Nick, the other highly developed Mesomorph (bottom photo) came to me after decades of real street fights, most of which he easily won. He wanted to get more efficient in his ability to take out an adversary with far less energy than he expended in the past. He now is far more efficient and if anyone got into a close combative situation with him they would rue the day they crossed his path. But now Nick can do what he must with more aplomb, making it far less necessary to hospitalize an attacker. Michael is a living legend among GC practitioners as well as his many patrons who find it very safe to eat, drink and make merry at the various establishments he protects as a nightclub security person. He is the epitome of what nature can produce when a strong frame and especially strong muscles are combined with natural athleticism. He is to me the Sir Lancelot of our round table, to coin a phrase. A gentle giant. Not really as big as the 400 pound giant bouncers I've worked with in the past but even more dangerous. No kidding. Many stories could be told of Michael's exploits. When GC and Body Building Mix Wrong I want to point out though that one should not seek to use bodybuilding as a crutch to cover for a shortcoming in Guided Chaos skill development. Although in my youth I was athletic and an accomplished power-lifter, various medical ailments as well as injuries from my years as a street cop have greatly reduced my physical abilities. Yet because of my devotion to the art and superior Balance, Body Unity, Looseness, Sensitivity and Adaptability, I can still easily hold my own with these two Samsons. Everything else being equal, skill still trumps strength. Strength can be an insidious trap that stifles your development of Sensitivity because you will be tempted to block a strike with power instead of absorbing and eluding it while simultaneously and efficiently bringing your own weapons online. Similarly, you may try to bull your way through your opponent's defenses instead of "ghosting" around them. This "power" trap is not unique to bodybuilding and GC. Tai Chi is filled with practitioners who have lost the essence of their art, reducing the game of push hands to what essentially amounts to a Sumo contest. We have seen this scenario played out even among National Champions. Is it any wonder that some Tai Chi schools will teach push hands as a form of sensitivity drill but then turn around and put gloves on to teach "boxing" as the art's combative component? Something got lost in the sauce. To sum up, weight training is not a detriment to GC training. However, there ARE other ways to develop strength via Guided Chaos exercises alone. We will explore some of them in future Newsletter articles.  GO BEYOND PURE STRENGTH: HOW DO YOU DEVELOP THE BALANCE, BODY UNITY, LOOSENESS AND SENSITIVITY PRINCIPLES DISCUSSED ABOVE TO SAVE YOUR LIFE? THE ATTACKPROOF COMPANION PART 2 DVD You can master the key combat principles for saving your life. Are you built like a UFC Champion? If Olympian genetics are not in your genes, it is SKILL that becomes the great equalizer. All real combat comes down to developing superior Balance, Body Unity, Looseness, Sensitivity and Adaptability. These are Survival Principles and have nothing to do with patterned techniques that only robots should perform. Unlike in the Dojo, REAL fights are never choreographed. Your self-defense shouldn't be either. If you've been programmed by training a specific response to a specific attack, your self-defense will FAIL if the attack changes by even one inch from the way you've trained. Your unrehearsed response will be your only response. It is far better to develop the ability to improvise any strike from any position spontaneously with power, accuracy and balance than to rely on rigid choreographed responses. The Attackproof Companion Part 2 explains all the GC principles and drills necessary to begin your violence survival training. More info IN THE EYE OF THE STORM The Attackproof Companion Part 3 DVD takes all the critical combat principles of Parts 1 and 2 and shows you how to apply them to life-and-death combat through the completely unchoreographed and free-form Guided Chaos sparring drill Contact Flow. This 6 hour, 3 disc package is the end result of many years work and will reward you with a lifetime of training insights. More info GUIDED CHAOS COMBAT CONDITIONING All the Guided Chaos drills back-to-back and non-stop on one DVD. No theory or extended explanations. Put it on, blast your stereo, follow along and work out-- 5 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour or longer--whatever you want-you decide! Also, many chapters end with a quick application demo of the skill just trained. More info

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