►John demonstrates simple Combat Efficiency using GC Combatives but adapting with GC Principles where necessary but always with brutally devastating strikes.

►Even with GC Combatives, there’s always GC Principles in effect, especially to unbalance the enemy.

►The incredibly effective but subtle unbalancing John shows needs to be watched over and over.

►John shows how drop-stepping such that you hit from where you’re going to be—not from where you are—provides the most power and elusiveness.

►Just to add more options, he shows using Combat Boxing (hammerfists, backfists, straight fists, etc.) to destroy the attacker’s limbs to set up more vulnerable targets but it should be noted that these are less lethal and may not work against very large/strong attackers and may serve just as ricochet points to attack more lethal targets with more lethal weapons (chops, palms, spears, eye gouges, etc.).

►John shows even more subtle unbalancing and how it disrupts the enemy’s attack, making him more vulnerable and unable to counter.

►This can be used to redirect one assailant into another in the case of 2 attackers.

►Against less skilled multiple attackers, the GC Combatives is devastating but as soon as you encounter resistance you instantaneously flow into more adaptive movements. HOWEVER, this is not to say that you go from GC Combatives to pure GC robotically like a traditional martial art “counter-technique”. You are ALWAYS functioning at maximum adaptability and do, as John says, “What needs to be done” dictated by your Sensitivity.

►There is tremendous detail in this short, serious vid that needs to be studied, but it ends with a typical display of our esteemed Grandmaster’s sense of humor that made classes that much more fun, back in the day…