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REALITY-BASED THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY

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REALITY-BASED THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY

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Can You Mix Other Arts with Guided Chaos? My Personal Journey…

By Ari Kandel / November 28, 2018 /

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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Giving Thanks and Remembering Those We’ve Lost

By Ari Kandel / November 22, 2018 /

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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The Truth About Violence

By Matt Kovsky / November 1, 2018 /

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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