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| | | "HOW DID YOU GET SO GOOD?"
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| A Conversation Between a Guided Chaos 2nd Degree and 4th Degree
Has Key Insights for YOUR Development
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| Steve:
"Question:
Aside
from having a good amount of private/group GC lessons, doing your solo
drills religiously AND really studying GC by writing about it, etc., how
did you become so good at it Ari?" |
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Ari:
"First
of all, "so good" may apply only to verbal/written teaching acumen. I'm
definitely not one of the more dangerous hand to hand fighters in GC,
and I don't know how good a tactile/intuitive teacher I am in the grand
scheme of things. I don't have a record of training proven fighters like
John, Tim, Al, etc. have. What seems cool and "what is needed" to the
student often isn't in fact what is.
That being said:
1) Lots of hands on training with the masters, especially John and Tim and Al and Matt (doesn't help you much since they're in NY and you're in San Francisco!)
2)
Physical training consistency, not necessarily volume. I went through
periods of LOTS of training (like 7+ classes a week, including multiple
classes per day, e.g. see Tim in the afternoon then regular class in the
evening, regular class plus private lessons in one day, etc.), and they
usually produced stagnation and frustration. Then a forced break
(illness, travel, etc.) of a week or more, and I'd come back better than
ever. Matt suggested that the break gave my subconscious time to digest
everything, while the constant input period left things half-baked and
undigested. Sounds accurate to me. Consistent hands-on training a few
times per week plus regular moderate solo practice (not hours at a time,
but maybe a few min at a time, with full presence and precision, most
days) may be the better formula vs. pure overload.
3) Too much
thought. For long periods, it was almost impossible to get GC out of my
mind! Whenever my mind wasn't engaged with work or family issues, it
naturally went to GC. Sometimes writing about it was an effort to get
stuff out of my head so that I could concentrate on other stuff!
Thinking about GC stuff would keep me up at night. Never had previous
martial arts training so captured my thinking and imagination. John has
noted that a lot of the development of GC happened within his mind. He'd
imagine and figure stuff out, then test it out with training partners
to validate it.
4) Gradually learning to be less analytical and
more gestalt. John has commented that generally "right-brained"
(artistic, gestalt, visual) people pick up GC faster than "left-brained"
(logical, analytical) people. (Note that those definitions are not
scientifically rigorous but do have some truth to them.) I came into the
art far more left-brained and had to figure out how to quiet down the
logical monkey to accept the bigger picture and the apparent
contradictions. Exposure to Tim helped as he was the ultimate in
"right-brained". John has said that he (John) and I share a bit of being
"geeks," which can be both good and bad. Good in terms of writing and
reading and understanding mentally, maybe less good in terms of making
the theoretical practical. Gotta expand the mind.
5) Learning
"faith." Not in terms of any organized religion, but in terms of
accepting the GC teachings (written, verbal, tactile) at face value and
simply listening and absorbing. Most people want to filter everything
through their current understanding, which distorts and blocks the
learning. I've observed John teaching people and seen them literally try
to translate everything John says into their own language or put their
own "spin" on it, and thereby miss the truth of what John is trying to
get across. This has helped me in areas beyond GC. Especially when
someone older and more experienced is talking, or even just someone who
may have something useful or interesting to impart, just shut up, listen
and absorb! That's what I try to do when learning, especially from
John. Don't try to judge what I'm hearing/feeling or put it in context
or figure out what he "really" means, just absorb. I've seen so many
people mess up their learning in so many ways by not doing this--they
reinterpret, they say "yeah but" in their own minds, they take things
less than literally, their egos get in the way, their emotions get in
the way. Still happens to me too sometimes, but I try to be aware of it
and stop it. Al actually helped me a lot in figuring this out, including
putting the word "faith" to it. He was a deacon in his church long
before finding GC, so having faith was already natural for him and I
believe helped him to learn very quickly from John. I'm not talking
"blind" faith or fanaticism, just some ability to let down the defenses
and accept teaching.
6) Continuing to learn outside of GC--not
taking classes (no time for that), but still reading, watching,
studying. Helps understanding of GC from different angles and contexts.
John's always examining other stuff.
7) Meeting and moving with a
wide variety of people through GC whom I wouldn't have ever met
otherwise. If we go back to Tim's comment that GC is really about
understanding people, this is important."
Visit Ari Kandel's GC school in Boca Raton FL:
Tuesdays 8:30 - 10 p.m.
http://www.internalselfdefense.com/
Visit Steve Philliber's GC school in San Francisco:
Sunday mornings 10:30am-12:30pm/Tuesday evenings-7:45pm-9:00pm. (Private lessons: time by arrangement).
Contact: guidedchaossf@gmail[DOT]com (Replace [DOT] with "." when typing.)
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