REALITY-BASED THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY
REALITY-BASED THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY
People often ask whether it’s possible or advisable to “add” Guided Chaos (GC) training to whatever other martial arts/combatives training they currently do. Politically correct answer: Sure, keep practicing what you like, adding the GC will just make it work better. . . . Problem with that answer: It will never allow you to discover your own full potential. ——— My personal story: After doing the kiddie Karate and then Tae Kwon Do black belt thing, I realized after some close calls in my mid teens that I hadn’t really learned anything practical. I started researching and found Jeet Kune…
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On Thanksgiving morning, 2014, Tim Carron passed away. He was 66 years old. The Guided Chaos family lost a superlative practitioner, teacher and friend. The world lost one of its greatest artists, martial and otherwise. Guided Chaos creator John Perkins lost a very close friend and student of nearly 35 years. I personally lost a unique role model, teacher and friend of 8 years, whose influence far exceeded the fairly limited frequency of our interactions. Many of my early lessons from Tim are chronicled in the first few years’ posts of the Attack Proof blog, http://attackproof.blogspot.com/. I had to stop writing…
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“When I have people do an exercise I’m always watching what people are doing with their body, to make sure they’re moving right.” -Grandmaster Tim Carron The above statement was based on a question I once asked Grandmaster Carron when he corrected me on an exercise that I wasn’t doing correctly. From my experiences working with Grandmaster Carron one of the things about his teaching style was he was very meticulous about how my body moved, especially when performing or teaching an exercise. Believe it or not, he was less concerned with the “form” or how something looked, than…
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“My blade moves like the softest breeze…Cutting the clouds of fear…Evading the clash of steel…Only to pierce the heart of resistance…” – Grandmaster John Perkins In this series which I will call “Lessons from My Masters” I’m going to delve into some of the things that I have learned and observed over the years as a practitioner and instructor in the art of Guided Chaos. These are my own impressions and interpretations over the years as an instructor and life-long student of what I know for a fact regarding this awesome art. I’m doing this because I get a…
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Guided Chaos is a unique style of martial art created in 1978 by ex-cop and crime scene expert John Perkins. Instead of rigid techniques or rules-based sport fighting, Guided Chaos prepares you for real violence by teaching adaptability so you can spontaneously create your defense using natural principles of energy, movement and physics. There’s nothing mystical about these principles and they are, in fact, quite ancient. Nevertheless, virtually no one teaches them anymore–and no one teaches them the way we do. WHAT IS ATTACK PROOF? ATTACK PROOF: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO PERSONAL PROTECTION is the name of a revolutionary book…
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