GUIDED CHAOS
MARTIAL ART
STYLE COMPARISON CHART
GUIDED CHAOS
MARTIAL ART
STYLE COMPARISON CHART
"What's the best martial art system for me?"
All claim to be the best for self-defense. Only one delivers. Choose wisely.
ATTRIBUTE |
ADVANTAGE |
DISADVANTAGE |
EMPHASIZED IN GUIDED CHAOS? |
EMPHASIZED IN OTHER ARTS? |
Forms ("kata", etc.) training |
Increases discipline, tradition, concentration, athletic condition, memorization of specific techniques |
Programs your nervous system to react roboticly to true chaotic violence with patterned responses ("the way you train is the way you fight") resulting in freeze ups and inappropriate defense/offense for any given moment |
Never |
Most |
Closed fist strikes (excluding hammerfists) |
Breaks bones, crushes soft tissue |
Inadequate vs large attackers, can cause injury to hand when striking large bones, skull, requires perfect form or risks wrist injuries |
Some, where appropriate |
Most |
Open hand strikes |
Breaks bones, crushes soft tissue; safe for hitting large bones, skull; greater defensive sensitivity; penetrates enemy defenses better |
None |
Absolutely |
Some |
Ripping, tearing, shredding, gouging strikes |
Easily applied, almost impossible to defend |
None offensively. Requires special training to defend AGAINST |
Absolutely |
Offensively: some. |
Head butts, biting |
Easily applied, difficult to defend |
Head butting is usually taught incorrectly in many arts and can hurt you more than the enemy |
Absolutely |
Few |
Short range low kicking and stomping |
Easily applied, almost impossible to defend |
None |
Absolutely |
Some |
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Doesn't require an Olympian's body to work. Virtually only way to defeat a much larger, stronger, skilled enemy |
Almost never taught as pure combat anymore. Practitioners often divorced from true forensic reality of violence |
Absolutely, but taught differently from traditional "soft" internal styles such as aikido, tai chi, bagua, hsing i |
see note on left |
External or "hard" style techniques |
Rewards those with superior physical attributes with limited increases in hitting power |
Less useful for smaller, weaker individuals and exposes them to more danger. External training often decreases balance, sensitivity, looseness and adaptivity. |
Guided Chaos teaches you to be 99% soft (yin) and only 1% hard (yang) at the moment you make impact then become soft (unavailable) again. |
Hard styles make up the majority of martial arts systems in the world. |
Comprehensive balance training |
Hit, defend, counter-attack, survive and recover during wild fighting |
Must be taught dynamically, spontaneously and appropriately to the chaos of combat |
Absolutely |
Virtually none that we know |
Body unity training for power |
Utilize full plyometric power of entire body mass and strength while maintaining looseness |
If taught incorrectly creates tight, slow, weak and clumsy responses |
Absolutely |
In some internal arts, usually incorrectly within a patterned form with no chaotic combat application |
Looseness training to avoid and survive impacts, find openings |
Ability to keep on fighting and go home |
None |
Absolutely |
Virtually none that we know of; sometimes in boxers, wrestlers and internal styles, usually misdirected and incompletely |
Sensitivity training |
Ability to sense openings and incoming attacks before your eyes can |
None |
Absolutely |
Supposed to be taught in internal styles, almost always incorrectly. Sometimes found in elite grapplers |
Awareness and fear-focusing training |
Avoid violence before it happens; channel adrenaline |
Can create rigidity and paranoia if done improperly |
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Modified Native American |
You never know if you'll end up on the ground; allows you to strike and remain free of entanglement. No relation to MMA or submission grappling |
None. Difficult for BJJ, MMA practitioners to learn since they are usually taught: 1-sportively with rules to "win" instead of disable and escape. |
Absolutely |
Virtually none that we know |
Knife, stick and gun fighting |
A supreme advantage--maybe |
Knife and stick usually taught with complex, flowery flourishes incompatible with life-and-death combat. 99% of gun fighting taught unrealistically as depicted in movies & TV. Disarms taught are usually nonsense. |
Absolutely |
Some |
Proven in War |
Basic, quick striking methodology used in thousands of bloody, documented engagements in World War II by U.S. soldiers. Simple, practical, no-nonsense, reality based, survival techniques for ending a fight and going home |
Politically incorrect. Popularly taught today in watered-down, eviscerated versions bearing little resemblance to the original. |
Absolutely |
A few, if that |
Total Adaptivity, Improvisation and Spontaneity in the face of |
Real violence is chaos and constantly changes. No two fights look exactly the same. What happens if your counter-attack doesn't work? You need to adapt to survive. |
Almost impossible to learn with traditional martial art/self-defense teaching methods. |
That's all we do! |
None that we know of as standard practice. Sometimes acquired by elite, super-trained individuals who are able to dissolve everything they've ever learned into fluid, spontaneous responses. |
ATTRIBUTE |
ADVANTAGE |
DISADVANTAGE |
EMPHASIZED IN GUIDED CHAOS? -------- EMPHASIZED IN OTHER ARTS? |
Forms ("kata", etc.) training |
Increases discipline, tradition, concentration, athletic condition, memorization of specific techniques |
Programs your nervous system to react roboticly to true chaotic violence with patterned responses ("the way you train is the way you fight") resulting in freeze ups and inappropriate defense/offense for any given moment |
Never ---------- Most |
Closed fist strikes (excluding hammerfists) |
Breaks bones, crushes soft tissue |
Inadequate vs large attackers, can cause injury to hand when striking large bones, skull, requires perfect form or risks wrist injuries |
Some, where appropriate ---------- |
Open hand strikes |
Breaks bones, crushes soft tissue; safe for hitting large bones, skull; greater defensive sensitivity; penetrates enemy defenses better |
None |
Absolutely |
Ripping, tearing, shredding, gouging strikes |
Easily applied, almost impossible to defend |
None offensively. Requires special training to defend AGAINST |
Absolutely |
Head butts, biting |
Easily applied, difficult to defend |
Head butting is usually taught incorrectly in many arts and can hurt you more than the enemy |
Absolutely |
Short range low kicking and stomping |
Easily applied, almost impossible to defend |
None |
Absolutely |
|
Doesn't require an Olympian's body to work. Virtually only way to defeat a much larger, stronger, skilled enemy |
Almost never taught as pure combat anymore. Practitioners often divorced from true forensic reality of violence |
Absolutely, but taught differently from traditional "soft" internal styles such as aikido, tai chi, bagua, hsing i |
External or "hard" style techniques |
Rewards those with superior physical attributes with limited increases in hitting power |
Less useful for smaller, weaker individuals and exposes them to more danger. External training often decreases balance, sensitivity, looseness and adaptivity. |
Guided Chaos teaches you to be 99% soft (yin) and only 1% hard (yang) at the moment you make impact then become soft (unavailable) again. |
Comprehensive balance training |
Hit, defend, counter-attack, survive and recover during wild fighting |
Must be taught dynamically, spontaneously and appropriately to the chaos of combat |
Absolutely |
Body unity training for power |
Utilize full plyometric power of entire body mass and strength while maintaining looseness |
If taught incorrectly creates, tight, slow, weak and clumsy responses |
Absolutely |
Looseness training to avoid and survive impacts, find openings |
Ability to keep on fighting and go home |
None |
Absolutely |
Sensitivity training |
Ability to sense openings and incoming attacks before your eyes can |
None |
Absolutely |
Awareness and fear-focusing training |
Avoid violence before it happens; channel adrenaline |
Can create rigidity and paranoia if done improperly |
|
Modified Native American |
You never know if you'll end up on the ground; allows you to strike and remain free of entanglement. No relation to MMA or submission grappling |
None. Difficult for BJJ, MMA practitioners to learn since they are usually taught: 1-sportively with rules to "win" instead of disable and escape. |
Absolutely |
Knife, stick and gun fighting |
A supreme advantage--maybe |
Knife and stick usually taught with complex, flowery flourishes incompatible with life-and-death combat. 99% of gun fighting taught unrealistically as depicted in movies & TV. Disarms taught are usually nonsense. |
Absolutely |
Proven in War |
Basic, quick striking methodology used in thousands of bloody, documented engagements in World War II by U.S. soldiers. Simple, practical, no-nonsense, reality based, survival techniques for ending a fight and going home |
Politically incorrect. Popularly taught today in watered-down, eviscerated versions bearing little resemblance to the original. |
Absolutely |
Total Adaptivity, Improvisation and Spontaneity in the face of |
Real violence is chaos and constantly changes. No two fights look exactly the same. What happens if your counter-attack doesn't work? You need to adapt to survive. |
Almost impossible to learn with traditional martial art/self-defense teaching methods. |
That's all we do! |
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