Lessons from My Masters 35: Observations - The Grandmaster Chronicles - Part VII

“Nobody is strong and nobody is weak if he conceives of the body, from the head to the sole of the foot, as a unity in which a living mind circulates everywhere equally.”

― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

In the last Blog Post, I delved into ways to practice Contact Flow and I want to reiterate it is literally the single greatest training tool we have at our disposal that allows us to develop an almost unlimited range of movements and possibilities within the bodies we have. In this post, I’m going to briefly cover Combat Flow and begin to delve into the thing that I get pounded with all of the time and that is on the issue of “training”. Both as a student and an instructor and better ways to do it based on my experiences training under Grandmaster Perkins.

“You can only fight the way you practice”

― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

To reiterate, of all of the exercises within the art of Guided Chaos, Contact Flow probably the greatest training exercise we have and is probably the single most important exercise that we do because it allows for a total fusing of the principles in one place and when done right offers unlimited opportunity for growth and the development of virtually any skill you wish to develop within the art. Through proper training, we are able to develop the attributes of total freedom of action and creativity. 

“Where does the master swordsman strike? Nowhere…”

― Takuan Soho, The Unfettered Mind

Once again because it cannot be said enough, Contact Flow is a “free-flowing exercise” designed to train your mind and body on a neuromuscular level to develop the feel or “touch” if you will necessary for dealing with another person’s motion.  It is an exercise that allows you to develop and experience “in the body” an infinite number of sensations, body positions and possibilities within time and space throughout the movement while dealing with another human being.  If you have any other understanding of what Contact Flow is you are wrong!

On Being Neutral

“Sever the edge between before and after.”

  ― Takuan Soho, The Unfettered Mind

Along those lines the whole concept of trying to be "in the moment" when doing Contact Flow and learning to "focus" or what I like to call developing "perfect clarity" and only concentrating on what you are doing at the time you are doing it to develop laser-like focus. You want to develop the quality of being "neutral" in all that you do. In doing so this will allow you to become responsive enough to make changes in your body "before" things become a problem since it reduces the chances of you over traveling in your movement.  Also, because it needs to be repeated remember that "time" is precious. That every moment of every day, you're burning time off of your existence and you don't get it back so you want to use it wisely especially when training for life and death combat. The more you can develop these qualities the better your movement and decision making when dealing with another person's motion. 

“When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.”

― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

This is where your focus must be when training remember that there is an "acceptable level of risk" in all things. And as I’ve said in previous Blog Posts,

“Those who try to cling to life out of fear never find it and are already dead inside or they live in dread of death. Those who accept that there are risks to everything find life.”

 In other words, what we think protects us often makes us vulnerable and what we think makes us vulnerable is often what protects us. Go figure.

 “The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.”

― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

The point is you study a martial art to be able to take care of the business not to live in fear. To live in freedom no matter the cost or what I like to refer to as "Dangerous Freedom" and not to become secure in slavery and become a slave to your fears.

Combat Flow

 “The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.”

― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

Okay now by practicing proper Contact Flow through the principles of Guided Chaos over time one begins to develop a natural relaxed way of moving. Each movement is fluid and free-flowing so while it may not look pretty it is often more efficient and powerful than the flashy cool looking stuff (remember cool will get you killed). This is because the natural movement that is emphasized within the art is seamless and fluid whereas overly structured movement is stiff, choppy and predictable. Through the development of the principles, one is able to be whatever they need to be when they need to be it. It is the ability to be hard and soft and everything in between all at the same time.

In the photos below [1 through 8] you can see the basic Close Combat Strikes.  Really nothing fancy here, which by the way is why they work.  When performing Combat Flow, I know we say that we insert the various lethal strikes into the movement. Aaaaaahuuummmm…. Yes and No!

Let me explain, yes it’s true we begin to insert the various strikes into the movement but in truth we are actually moving to positions where we can employ really any strike we want so it’s really less about what weapon you use and more based around positioning your body in a manner (in the Future) that allows you to really make almost anything work.  

When doing this as shown in the sequence below on “Combat Flow Strikes and Targets” when you start out you want to move slowly since for obvious reasons the strikes we teach are inherently dangerous.  Oh, one point I want to stress and that is when viewing either a demonstration in the Guided Chaos books or DVD’s please understand that what may appear to look like grappling is far from it.  These are lethal strikes and neck breaks or what we refer to as finishing moves.  The problem is there is no way to demonstrate them full speed without someone ending up either being killed or breathing through a tube in their necks for the rest of their lives. That’s just not a good business model.

While practicing Combat Flow you want to move to strike no matter what, even when I am “Ghosting” my movements as I enter. Once again, I insert the strikes into the flow as a part of the movement and not in isolation of it.  Also, I never try to “block” another person’s arm per se because the act of blocking actually slows you down as well as gives away your intention. 

For example, in photo’s 1 to 4 below, as Al Tino, 4^th Degree Guided Chaos, returning for another round of violence, attempts to strike me rather than trying to block what he is doing as I feel his intention I simply re-direct his fist, as he attempts to recover by slipping out of the way I am able to move to a point ahead of his movement buying me time to catch his opposite arm in a nasty break.  Understand that this is all happening within the flow and not in isolation of it.  In other words, this is not a choppy sort of sequence of movements much like you see in many martial arts movies where even when the movement is dynamic it is more akin to stop motion animation.  This is fluid and seamless.

As we flow we continue to move to strike and negate the effects of the other persons strikes by either becoming unavailable as they move to strike while becoming unavoidable by striking first. Thus our strike is our block and our block is our strike.

How the Universe Works Part 7,801

“You can only fight the way you practice”

― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

Now, when you practice this, when striking, “resist” the temptation to speed up or chamber your strike when feeling an opening otherwise you will totally throw off the timing of your strike. Just as there is a certain timing to strike a baseball there is also a timing to striking people and depending on your body alignment, the direction of movement, etc. will depend on how and where you strike and when. 

Above all by speeding up not only do you teach your body or move in an unnatural manner but you are doing something that is scientifically impossible. If both of you are moving at let’s say full speed, there is no way (unless you’re Superman) that you can all of a sudden become two to three times as fast as another human being or whatever. It's just not possible!

Believe it or not when you do this during the Combat Flow all you are doing is creating a false dynamic to fighting in your mind and body that does not exist. Not only will you screw your skill up but you will burn in Hell! I’m serious! So not only will you lose the battle but reap eternal damnation… don’t do it!

This is not to say that there is not a time to train moving fast but if you are to do this then it needs to be understood by your training partner that you want to move faster.  In this way, you are both moving in sync to facilitate the proper timing within the movement with your strikes. Again, you do this and you’ll one day wake up screaming for water in Hell Fire so avoid Hell, don’t speed up… and live!

Advanced Combat Flow

“From one thing, know ten thousand things”

― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

As your ability to perform Combat Flow increases you will begin to develop the ability to drop strike with tremendous force from virtually every angle against a variety of targets.  So for example in the process of moving to strike if their arm gets in my way rather than trying to block it, I hit it out of the way as if I were striking it in an attempt to break it by clashing with it as I move in.  In doing this it allows me to knock it out of the way and continue onto my next strike. This is the essence of what I do when I “Ride the Lightning”.  At the higher levels, you will even begin to develop the ability to either subtly take another person’s balance with a light touch from the slightest angle or take their balance “as you strike them”!  A little harder to do but it is something that is totally learnable.  Most of the Guided Chaos 2nd Degrees especially those with exceptional balance can do this.

At the end of the day, there is a “fusion” of the concepts whereas there is no beginning or end to the movement but one of continuous “adaptive flow”.  It is this ability to adapt in real time at speed, that in my view is what truly separates Guided Chaos from other fighting arts.  We accept up front that the enemy is not going to cooperate with our plan and that you must possess the ability to adapt with the ever-changing nature of a real fight.  Nor do we accept that one strike, even to a vital area is enough to stop a determined attacker especially one that is high on some sort of drug or is emotionally disturbed.  I don’t kid myself and neither should you.

Key points to remember when performing Combat Flow:

• When practicing Combat Flow always move to strike
• Make the strikes “flow” as seamlessly as possible, as a part of the movement and not in isolation of it
• Never try to “block” since the act of blocking actually slows you down as well as gives away your intention
• When striking, resist the temptation to speed up or chamber your strikes when feeling an opening otherwise you will totally throw off the timing of your strike
• Remember unrealistically speeding up teaches your body to move in an unnatural scientifically impossible manner

On Teaching

 "Day by day, what you do is who you become."

― Heraclitus

There are all sorts of methods of teaching and I’ve covered the four stages of learning before so I won’t get into it here. I’m just going to briefly touch on a few things here that I’ve learned from the Grandmaster because the whole subject of teaching and how to teach things within Guided Chaos is a subject that could literally span a thousand pages. Also, I’m not going to get into to it in too much depth here because to peel this onion back requires a slow in some cases "re-education" process for some folks. However, before I go there I to cover something first and that is “Context”. You want to become a good teacher, instructor, coach or whatever then you have to put in the time to develop your craft. All too often those who are exceptionally gifted are not able to impart the information they possess because they never put forth the effort nor think it is necessary to develop themselves as an instructor, coach or whatever. We see this in sports all of the time and the martial arts are not immune to this. Remember, "Day by day, what you do is who you become", even if it is the wrong thing... Choose well...

They think what they do is "magic" because for them the effortlessness of what they do "feels" that way to them. The intuitiveness, the knowledge in the body, the judgment and the ability to just "know". All too often is taken for granted and as a result not only do those they try to teach suffer but on some level so do they. This is just the blind leading the blind. You do not gain the insights if you are not seeking the answers, you do not know how to ask the right questions unless to make it a habit to ask questions not to confirm your biases but to seek out the truth no matter how ugly. 

Et Tu Sonny?

If you ever saw the movie I, Robot with Will Smith then you will recall there was a scene where the main robot named "Sonny" even though he as a robot kept having what he thought was a reoccurring dream of a robot standing on a hill looking down at other robots. He even went as far as to draw a picture of it (below left).

However, it wasn't until the end of the movie that he realized that what he was looking at was not a dream but a premonition of the future. That the robot he kept seeing in this dream was him (seen in the photo on the right). In other words, he was already standing in the future looking back. That his creator had given him something that made him unique amongst all of the robots created. The ability to envision the future, to dream of what could be, and to already be standing in that place looking back through time.

Looking back from where we want to be, seeing in our minds like Sonny what could be or as in his case what is yet to come we are capable of the same things. You hear me say it all of the time if you can't see it with your mind you can't see it with your eyes. If you can't even envision it then for you it doesn't even exist, and if it doesn't exist for you then as far as you are concerned it's not even possible. 

This is a common thing even in Guided Chaos amongst students and instructors alike, because it is a part of the human condition. Many of us can not see ourselves standing in that place looking back from the future, and so we can't get there from here. This, in my opinion, and it's just an opinion but I believe an informed observation as well, has inhibited and hobbled the growth of many a martial artist including those in Guided Chaos for both students and instructors. 

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

You know, we pay lip service to it but to actually envision what is the art of the possible?

To see it in your mind?

To have the wisdom, the practical application of knowledge and experience, to be able to deduce what is there "and" what is not there? 

This is no easy feat and the truth is as with anything in life for various reasons most will not get there.

In the Bible, 1 Kings Chapter 3, KJV we see that God had appeared to Solomon in a dream and when God said,  “ASK WHAT SHALL I GIVE YOU". Solomon could have asked for anything his heart desired, and so he chose the one treasure that stands out amongst all others for men. "Wisdom!"

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” 
― Albert Einstein

If you want to get there, to strive as Musashi and Takuan would say in "The Way" then you need to ask God for the wisdom to see it with your mind, to stand in that space and be able to look back.  As the old expression goes that, "From the top of the mountain all paths leading up look the same" Well, there's a caveat to that. "While all paths may look the same some are more arduous than others and most people because of it will never reach the summit". I'm not saying I'm at the top of the summit I'm just not foolish enough to believe that without some reflection on the past from the future, without the vision, without the honest introspection that it's possible to build in the wisdom to see what cannot be seen with the eyes and take advantage of it. 

This is a concept we in the military call "Backward or Reverse Planning" where we start from where we know we need to be at a point in the future to accomplish the mission and then work our way backward in our planning and adjust accordingly as we go along. At a more refined level, this concept created by Dr. Joseph Riggo Ph.D. is called "Future Sliding". I'm not going to get into Future Sliding too much since there are a number of facets to it that I'll probably end up creating more confusion if I attempt to explain it as he can. So I'll stick to what the Hell I know. But understand it is a very real concept and is used by all sorts of folks from CEO's of large corporations to even by some based on the work he has done with SOCOM (Special Operations Command).

The point being if you want to get to the promised land you have to be able to envision whether for your students, yourself or life in general that space you want to occupy at the end of the journey, that place you choose to stand in within the world. And then work your way back in your planning and adjusting fire as you progress. This is important in my view because learning is learning and because we are human, Guided Chaos is no exception to the process. 

On Context

“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.”

― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

Before getting too far down the path one thing I want to point out and this is for student and instructors alike and I really don’t care what system of fighting you train in. always remember that just as important as it is to know what to train you need to also know to train within the proper “context”. Context is everything when training because it frames the who, what, when, where, why, and how. It grounds the training in reality and helps students and instructors alike train with the proper focus and prevents you from going off on unrealistic tangents and flights of fancy. Trust me I could go the fuck off as to how people frame things in training improperly and then wonder why people become confused, stagnant in their development, disillusioned, or don't learn at all. 

So for example, if I’m going to teach someone, say what to do if someone pulls a gun on them or a knife because these are the two most common questions I get from "many people", especially if they are untrained in anything. The first thing I ask is,

“How does that happen?

No really, how the Hell does someone you don’t know just walk up on you with intention and pull a weapon on you?

True anything can happen but how does that happen?

Where is your awareness?”

Usually, at this point, I get the Scooby Doo answer,

“Ri-don’t-row!?!”

They say this because not only do they not know but that no one has ever asked them or framed the question in that fashion. all they know is from thousands of hours of entertainment that guns and knives have "mystical qualities" and that you are somehow supposed to wait for someone to make a suspicious move and then figure out what to do. Trust me I could do a whole Blog Post on the mystical fear people have of guns alone. 

“In the strategy of my school, keep your body and mind straight and make your opponent go through contortions and twist about. The essence is to defeat him in the moment when, in his mind, he is pivoting and twisting. You should examine this well.”

― Miyamoto Musashi, The Complete Book of Five Rings

My point is I can give all sorts of “advice” and teach all sorts of things but if I don’t’ frame it in its “proper context” it really doesn’t matter what I tell them. Without framing things in "context" such advice or techniques as I’ve seen all over YouTube and Facebook is about as useful as my mom telling me not to eat “yellow snow”. Gee thanks for nothing… you get my point.

“If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.”

― Miyamoto Musashi, The Complete Book of Five Rings

There is much emotional investment that many people have in the way they teach things and how they present information and unfortunately because every man thinks he’s right in his own eyes they confuse their physical talent and personal idiosyncrasies with what they should be doing and that is focusing on teaching those who do not have these abilities and physical gifts how to use and develop the principles in their bodies to neutralize that of those who possess them and win the fight.  

“Efficiency and smooth progress, prudence in all matters, recognizing true courage, recognizing different levels of morale, instilling confidence, and realizing what can and cannot be reasonably expected—such are the matters on the mind of the master carpenter. The principle of martial arts is like this.”

― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

As I tell instructors all of the time,

“What is intuitive to us is not intuitive to others, if it was they wouldn’t be here. So fuck your feelings, get over yourself and teach them what they need to know to learn how to fight in the body they have because when their moment of truth arrives they’re on their own and they need to be able to bring it and 'kick that ass'. You have one job and that is to train them to be able to fight for their lives and that of their families. It ain’t about you or what you can do, it’s about whether you can train them in the things they need to know so that their sword prevails in battle. Everything else is all ego, all bullshit!”

Non-Verbal Methods of Instruction

 “Teaching people a large number of sword techniques is turning the way into a business of selling goods, making beginners believe that there is something profound in their training by impressing them with a variety of techniques. This attitude toward strategy must be avoided because thinking that there is a variety of ways of cutting a man down is evidence of a disturbed mind. In the world, different ways of cutting a man down do not exist.”

― Miyamoto Musashi, The Complete Book of Five Rings

This is a great way to teach but regardless you still have to set it up in context. The thing about the nonverbal method is it generally has to be taught through what is called "paradoxical learning". In other words, the thing that you are doing or trying to develop isn’t always the thing that is obvious to them. This is like the training done by Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, “Wax on-wax off Daniel-san”. This is a great way to teach people how to do something while preventing them from “over thinking” what they are doing. The reason is “you can not--not think”. Our brains just don't work that way and I'm sorry but it is not possible.

Even the idea of moving with someone when you train there is "thought" and "anticipation" even if it is nonverbal. Also, our brains are always anticipating or as I've heard it referred to "...our brains are always operating in the future", meaning that we are always thinking ahead and that you cannot "not" be doing that. You don't have to be consciously aware of it, as a matter of fact, most of what we do is outside of our conscious awareness, but it is always happening.

For example, when you're walking up a flight of steps and you slip because you misjudged the step. The reason this happens is that you anticipated where the step was going to be. When you “misjudged it” the reason you stumbled is that the step you anticipated would be there for all intents “wasn't”. I remember telling people when I was in Iraq we always had problems during operations going up and down stairs because no two steps were alike because these guys never heard of building codes so there was no pattern to recognize especially in the dark. This is where having skills built up from such exercises as the "Ninja" and "Vacuum Walk" come in handy. So if our brains are always doing this then how do you teach people in this fashion?

The "trick" is to give the person’s brain something to do, but the key is it must make sense to the conscious mind otherwise it gets bored and begins to over think the problem or as I've seen, people start doing things because they can't stay in the movement since their brain begins to question everything instead of just going with the flow. This is where John's concept of “giving your brain something to do” comes in. It distracts the part of our conscious mind that overthinks the problem by giving it something else "though related" to what you are developing.

“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Oh, I also need to add, once you've done this with someone at the end there needs to be a "closing of the loop" if you will you just can't leave them hanging out there otherwise they learn nothing. In other words, once you've completed whatever you were training them to do in the body. You need to tell them or at least demonstrate to them the purpose of what they just did was otherwise the training objective is lost on them and they don't make the connection between the exercises and what they can now do in the body. Like in the movie The Karate Kid, after Daniel has completed all of the tasks, he begins to complain to Mr. Miyagi about when is he going to teach him how to fight. Mr. Miyagi then has him stand in front of him and sends a barrage of strikes at him which he instinctively blocks.  I always loved that scene because it comes right out of all of the old-time Kung Fu movies and is a really great way to teach things that are at times complex.

It's funny because I remember when I was in college playing football and in order to teach us to just fall on the ball during a fumble instead of trying to pick it up. People try to pick the ball up because they know they can run with it and if they can score a touchdown be the hero for the day. The problem is because of the shape of a football the damn thing never bounces in a predictable manner. Anyway, the Linebacker Coach taped a football to a rope and he would throw the ball on the ground and every time one of us would not just dive on the ball by trying to pick it up, he would pull the ball out from under us and watch us face plant on the ground. Trust me he was having too much fun. But we got the idea and our ability to recover fumbles in games increased dramatically. 

“If you wish to control others you must first control yourself”

― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

I’ve hinted at this before but never really got into some of it because this is a deep, "deep" “rabbit hole”. Boys and girls I have to tell you, this is a way cool skill to learn how to do as an instructor but in order to do it you have to have your own game in check meaning you have to be aware of how your movement influences the movement of the other person. Otherwise you will inadvertently do things that will mess them up such as press against their hands for no reason or place the palms of your hands on them which believe it or not creates the sensation as if you are pushing since they can feel the structure and density of your body when you do this, even if you are not pushing (a very common teaching mistake). But if you can do it you can retrain people to do all sorts of things within their body they never thought they could do.  

So when John says to folks,

"Just move with me don't do anything but try to feel what's going and stay with me..."

What he's saying is,

"Listen, I want to teach you how to do something that cannot be verbally communicated because there is no description for it. Like reading 'Body Language', I'm training you via nonverbal cues that your conscious mind cannot see and it will over complicate it. So I need you to trust me and what I'm going to help your body learn. Please do not 'fuck up' my drill by trying to 'win' or 'compete' with me otherwise you can't feel what I'm doing here to help your body learn."

So then he moves with you, and while you're moving he's making 5,000 subtle little movements such as always working on your balance, as he leads your body to the right place. He may be talking with you; he may even begin showing you something specific that he knows you're aware of. Sometimes he says to me, "See what I did here?" and I go "Right". However, he, he, he... he actually did 100 things but the one thing he allowed me to focus on helping me get out of the way of all of the other changes he made.

So that your body picked up on them and learned them without the distraction of you overthinking the problem. I know this for a fact because I've worked with John where like two days later I have 50 moves I didn't have before but I don't ever remember practicing them. I "just know".

Folks like I said before this is a way cool skill to develop and pure genius from my Master. If you can read the tea leaves here you can see how this method can even help you if you're an instructor because in order for you to help them and guide them you have to see it first, feel it first, already be there. This is a very learnable skill but one that requires patience and honesty with yourself in order to learn it. 

This is why I go "crazy" when folks work with John and they try to "win" and then, later on, complain to me about their lack of progress. They can't have it both ways. He already knows the answer and he's trying to help you, however here is the conundrum. If he tells you the answer without you experiencing it first or in real time, it goes in one ear and out the other because that is the very reason fight by the numbers martial arts don't work. It's not dynamic and it's too situational and presupposes things that if you already knew them you wouldn't be in that situation in the first place.

When I think about the "fight by the numbers" methodology, it's really a fucked up way to teach people specifically because they never get beyond that stage. Anyway, if John allows you to "experience it" and you discover it within the flow it's always yours because what you experienced is "personal" to you and you felt it work in “the context” of what was actually going on at the time, and not just observed it in a demo. There is no need to reteach it or say it again because you already learned it in that instant. Make sense?

“Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you think you are on a good path, from the point of view of the straight and true, this is not a genuine path. If you do not pursue a genuine path to its consummation, then a little bit of crookedness in the mind will later turn into a major warp. Reflect on this.”

― Musashi Miyamoto, A Book of Five Rings

Folks I’ll be honest with you and something we’re moving to correct, Yeah, there is really some bad teaching going on out there even in Guided Chaos. The reason is that Guided Chaos as an art like, BJJ, Wrestling, Judo, Wing Chun, etc. all those arts that require you to make constant physical contact with folks requires the "right touch" and the "right understanding" in context, because there is so much information transferred through our touch that if you do not have an appreciation for how what we say and what we do when we lay hands on people affects their ability to learn you can mess them up or as we use to say in the military "FUBAR" (fucked up beyond all recognition).  In other words, and I’ve been guilty of this myself but it needs to be said. This shit of telling people they just have to "feel it" without explanation is bullshit! How do they know what they are feeling or what It’s supposed to feel like if you won’t tell them or demonstrate it on them? My point is if it’s important enough for you to do it as an instructor or fellow student trying to help someone out then it’s important enough for you to explain it the right way in the right context.

Well, that’s it for this installment in my next post I promise to clarify for those who asked me about some of the concepts from my Masters teachings such as, “Stopping Time” and “Disappearing” how to practice “Striking and Changing Within Movement” on folks as well as a level of adumbration within "Awareness".

“1. Do not think dishonestly. 2. The Way is in training. 3. Become acquainted with every art. 4. Know the Ways of all professions. 5. Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. 6. Develop intuitive judgment and understanding for everything. 7. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. 8. Pay attention even to trifles. 9. Do nothing which is of no use.”

― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

Thanks.

 LtCol Al Ridenhour

Senior Master Instructor

GUIDED CHAOS

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