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The Pen Is Deadlier Than The Sword
How did a clumsy white guy
LEARN TO MOVE LIKE A DEADLY TIGER
and combine this with the simplest improvised weapon in existence to give you an easily learnt system that will be your “ace-in-the-hole” wherever you go?
All the fancy weapons skills in the world are of no use to you if you don’t have your weapon on you or can’t get it into action quickly enough…or if you have it taken away from you every time you go through a metal detector. Let’s face it; some of the places secured by metal detectors are precisely the type of places you would want to be armed in these days, such as in a disco or on an airplane.
Traditional martial artists might say that this is precisely why they practice their empty hand skills for so many years - but with the crazy pace of modern life you may not have that kind of time available…and some of those systems don’t really work that well in the first place, as you have probably gathered, what with the UFC and all.
If you are one hundred percent certain that your “High Flung Dung” Kung Fu system will successfully carry you though any and all life-and-death confrontations, then stop reading, this is not for you. If you look like a cross between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Brock Lesnar, and have won your last five cage fights, this might not be for you either.
But if you need a system that’s easy and quick to learn and can turn a common everyday object, that you could reasonably carry in your pocket, into a deadly weapon that can equalize any size or strength advantage an attacker might have, then this is just the thing for you!
Something that can severely injure him…before he gets the chance to injure you. Let’s face it, one of you is going to get injured. Please let it be the criminal scumbag that made the terrible mistake of picking on you.
Dear friend
My name is Erik Petermann. When I was much younger, I used to be a bit of a “hard case”. Worked as a bouncer in Cape Town’s harbour area for quite a few years. One knife scar, one broken glass scar and two bullet holes from four separate incidents. Court cases for assault and attempted murder (not guilty, I never started a fight…but I always ended it, fast and hard).
Let me give you, as a gift and just to get us acquainted, my number one bouncer’s secret for winning any streetfight:
The one tactic that made me undefeated in over a hundred street fights (ok, the one time I was shot, I fell down and could not get up..he ran away…so technically that may have been a loss). With this alone you will win ninety nine percent of street fights you might get into. If you have any street experience, you will instantly recognize the validity of this:
ALWAYS ESCALATE A FIGHT FASTER THAN THE OTHER GUY CAN FOLLOW!!
When he is telling you how he is about to rip off your head and piss down your throat, hit him. When he is winding up to punch you with his fist, pick up a nearby glass ashtray or something similar and hit him with that. If he’s going for the glass ashtray, hit him with a chair first. I promise you, this will work every time. Been there, done that. Only slight snag being that you might need a really good lawyer afterwards, but then again, you know the saying about how it is “better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six” (i.e. court being better than a coffin).
And sometimes the escalation can get “gruesome”. Once I was seconds away from passing out, I was bleeding heavily, fists raining down on me, underneath an attacker who had managed to ambush me with a headbutt…and I escalated and turned things around by biting off his ear!
I’ve mellowed out now. On the wrong side of fifty, I walk away from trouble whenever I can. The problem being the “whenever I can” bit. As you probably know from your own experiences, sometimes you just CAN’T walk away from trouble. Sometimes it keeps on looking for you. Or your loved ones are involved. Perhaps that has happened to you...or you could imagine it happening sometime.
Cape Town has often been called the murder capital of the world. Depending on how the cocaine crop is doing this year, we seem to be competing with Bogota, Columbia, for that honor.
I have friends who don’t leave the house without their faithful Glock automatic, their combat folder and various other bits of “guaranteed deadly hardware” strapped to their limbs. Myself, I don’t want to live like that.
I don’t know if you move around your city “kitted out” like that, if you do, Piper might “only” be useful as a superb knife system for you. If not, you have a potential problem of the criminal kind and Piper may just be the solution for you!
If its nighttime and I’m heading somewhere dangerous, I take a fixed-blade, easy to draw knife. Most of the time though I carry a sturdy tactical pen. I have tested these pens out against the toughest sides of beef I could find and proven to my students that they, at a bodyweight that is often half of mine, can plant such a sturdy tactical pen an inch or two into the meat, using the power they have developed by practicing the Piper Power Development Exercises I teach them.
We have even gotten the same results by using normal metal pens, except that sometimes the pens get damaged…then again, if a pen that cost you a few dollars has just saved your life but you now have to throw it away, I’m fairly sure that this would not be the end of the world, would it now?
Once you have practiced Piper for a short time, you too can get that kind of confidence in what you have learnt by simply buying a tough piece of meat and going at it with a pen. If it does not work for you, you get a full refund from me, that is how much I believe in this method!
This gives you the confidence....
that if some criminal “Aids-infected excuse for a human being” is trying to rob or rape you, you can bury your pen an inch or two in his neck at the carotid artery and shrug your shoulders when you tell the police officer: “Well, all I had was this pen…and I was terrified…and so I hit him with it…and he fell over, bled a lot and thrashed around on the floor..no, sorry, no idea how that happened…but I was afraid for my life, UNARMED and just had to defend myself with something..didn’t I?
The one problem I personally had with learning Piper in the mid-nineties and that some of my “early” students internationally also had was that it is difficult to move in the snake-like manner of a Cape Flats gangster if you don’t come from the Cape Flats. There is a very specific and powerfully deadly way of moving there, that I struggled to “get”.
Traditionally these skills are taught to younger gang members by their imitating older ones. This has always worked. Along comes a six foot six clumsy white guy and suddenly it’s not working anymore!
With incredible patience my teachers, Nigel February and Lloyd de Jongh, taught me these skills in a “paint-by-numbers” fashion, each stab or knife-swopping technique painstakingly broken down into ten or twenty separate but sequential “pieces”.
This worked, in a fashion. Because of my teachers, I eventually did Piper pretty well…for a clumsy, big white guy. When it comes to a skill set that you might need to use in a life-or-death scenario, though, “pretty good for a white guy” is not even close to good enough! The same thing happened with my students, also. They “got it”, but it took a long time and the results could have been better.
I had to go back to the drawing board. I had been through something similar once before.
In 1982 I had found the man who was to become not just my teacher in World War 2 Combatives, but my mentor in all things combative and strategical as well. Harry Snowise had learnt from a man named Burnett who emigrated to South Africa at the end of World War 2 and who had been an assistant instructor under the famous W.E. Fairbairn in the British Commandos.
After a month or two of teaching me Harry shook his head and said: “Well, you have the strength, balls and street experience, but you move like a shambling bear. You need to study ballroom dancing or Tai Chi or something!
I was lucky and found an ultra-traditional teacher from Canton, Mr. Fok Si Yue, with whom I was priviledged to study Tai Chi and the advanced and rare art of Liu He Ba Fa on a private basis for ten years (you can see photos of my internal arts journey at http://www.energyarts.co.za/html/gallery_tai_chi.html ). For many of these years his only other students were his kids, although eventually he did take three or four other students also.
What made Mr. Fok’s teaching different and lead to quick and amazing improvements was his emphasis of the body movement drills he called “GUNG” (as opposed to the endless practice of often empty forms so beloved of commercial schools), which are part of Liu He Ba Fa and are used to develop and express power, “GEN”. These body movements taught the Lo Ho Pa Fa (Cantonese pronounciation) body dynamics in a simple yet perfect way. Within a short time I was no longer “moving like a bear”.
So, having come up against some sort of “cultural ceiling” in terms of the Piper movement of both myself and my students..and given that this was an art we might need so as to save our lives one day…I started going through everything my Piper teachers had been so kind as to share with me, looking for the “GUNG” of Piper, the movements that were the key.
I did not bring these exercises in from Liu He Ba Fa…there are too many technical differences for that to be workable…and I did not invent anything new that my teachers had not shown me. I just selected the handful of absolutely basic Piper power generation movements and drilled those, both on my own and with my students.
The results have been nothing short of miraculous.
I remember one German seminar participant this year (2011) who was moving so badly half an hour into the seminar that I had to prevent myself from grimacing in a kind of horror every time I was looking in his direction. I had never seen anything quite as robotic before. And yet, after an hour or two of doing these exercises, he looked as if he had been practicing for months. I couldn’t believe my eyes!
What also made me extremely happy was that several participants in both Germany and Holland came to me afterwards and told me that, for instance, their lower back was no longer aching, as it had previously been for weeks or that their shoulders were moving smoothly and freely for the first time in ages. As we get older our bodies seem to contract, they become stiff and loose mobility, especially around the joints and I have found that these Piper Exercises are the ideal antidote to this.
If you were to try learning Piper from a book or DVD in a “technique-by-technique” fashion, you might be able to get it…but it would take a long time and would be a difficult process. By plugging into these movements you can learn Piper quickly, painlessly and efficiently.
We are all born with certain strengths and weaknesses. My strengths have always been size, weight and physical strength. My weaknesses have been co-ordination and speed.
I have no idea what your strengths and weaknesses might be.
The awesome news for you is that:
Whatever your weakness might be, the answer is ALWAYS one thing! The SAME one thing!
Let’s call it “EFFICIENCY IN MOVEMENT”.
The more efficiently you can learn to move your body, the more you can improve on your so-called “weaknesses”…and, simultaneously also improve on your strengths. Look at a tiger or a shark. These killing machines move their whole body as one integrated unit, the only difference being their structure and the “tools” they use for achieving their purpose.
You, as a human being, have been robbed of your birthright of moving with such deadly grace by the circumstances of your upbringing. You have been taught that, unless you are “gifted” and become a professional athlete, your body is basically a movable container for taking your brain for a walk. The body plays second fiddle to the brain in our culture.
Your problem being that when some drooling asshole grabs you by your shirtfront and is about to pound you into mince-meat, the only thing your brain can come up with is: “Oh shit! Help! Body, do something! Flee or fight!”
Your body then responds as best as it can, but it’s not a tiger or a shark. Modern living has created something closer to a Chihuahua. Which brings us right back to your being seconds away from ending up on the floor as a puddle.
There is a way in which you can reclaim this KILLER EFFICIENCY of using your body and, once you have grasped the concept…it makes such obvious sense that it becomes downright easy.
As a passionate martial arts practitioner and teacher (if you’re still practicing daily after 41 years, you’re passionate, wouldn’t you say?) it makes me sad every time I see someone operating at far below their natural potential,
JUST BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE ANY IDEA OF HOW TO USE THEIR BODY CORRECTLY!
To give you an idea of how well you can move when using Piper, I was fortunate enough to have my friend and one of my Piper teachers, Lloyd de Jongh, volunteering to show his stuff on this DVD. Whilst no-one moves quite like Nigel February, Lloyd’s movement is fast, fluid and incredibly masterful.
Having him doing his stuff for nearly three quarters of an hour gives you an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of seeing what the “gold standard” of Piper movement looks like.
When I wrote my e-book, I included the basic version of the “De Jongh Constant”, an infinity drill developed by Lloyd. This was the one thing that a few readers struggled learning from the book. In this DVD you have the opportunity of getting Lloyd to break this sequence down for you as it has never been broken down before and as you would otherwise never be able to see it, unless you were lucky enough to be attending one of Lloyd’s seminars.
Lloyd not only shows the basic pattern, but also introduces variations of pace, different angles of attack, changes in the angling of the body, then footwork is added, other elements such as visual and auditory distractions are shown and finally, some of the applications of the movements are explained.
What this means for you, is that once you have used the DVD to polish up the basics as they were outlined in the book, you now have an open-ended and infinite portal through which you can further explore Piper and increase your understanding, to the point where you can generate Piper movement OUT OF YOUR OWN BODY. In other words, this drill is the ultimate key to making Piper your own.
Here’s a taste of some of the other things you’ll learn from this DVD:
1. The unique Piper foot positioning, which is similar to a secret Chinese internal arts principle called “single-weightedness”, which will give you the ability to move faster than a pissed-off cobra.
2. Drills for generating power from the wrist and elbow, expressed in techniques such as “shimmering blade” and “twirling blade”, which allow you to generate powerful strikes even when your body is moving away from your target. When you need to commit your trunk to generate power, it becomes impossible to do so whilst moving away. Piper gives you that option.
3. A series of very tight “on-guard” positions called “frames”. Thanks to these you will not need to worry too much about defence. Between your footwork and your frames it is close to impossible for him to “lock-on” to you or to find a gap that he can exploit.
4. Technical applications of some of the techniques. This gives you an insight into how Piper is and has been used on the streets of the Cape Flats and can be transferred directly to your use in defending yourself and your loved ones, in some cases even just from watching the footage.
5. The core power production movements. These are the movements which will give you the explosive power of a guided missile whilst simultaneously keeping your joints well-oiled and your body movement fluid. If you want to be like a tiger, first you need to learn how to move like one. These movements will automatically program your body to achieve this.
6. How to use your shoulder in a three-dimensional way, making it close-to-impossible to pin you down.
7. Using the shoulder roll to mimic the stalking movements of a large predator. This takes you yet another step closer to expressing that inner tiger! With practice this kind of focused movement can help you to directly connect with the more primal parts of your brain.
8. Aggressive defence when cornered. You are now impossible to corner, the corner simply creates a clear pathway that you can use to “chainsaw” your way out of there and to even turn the table on your aggressor in the process.
9. The basic stabs of the system. These are simple and powerful and yet give you sufficiently different angulation so that, if the one angle of attack is not available, you simply use the other one. He can’t defend against both at the same time!
10. Knife swopping. Piper gives you many tools to make your movement and intentions unpredictable and difficult to read for an attacker, but this is one of the master keys. Whether you are wielding a pen or a knife, now he sees it…then he doesn’t…and then he feels the pain.
11. Noise distractions. Definitely an advanced aspect of Piper, you can become even more unpredictable by slapping parts of your own body or snapping your fingers whilst simultaneously sneaking in a quick attack. This, when combined with the other elements of distraction and misdirection, creates that “what the hell happened” effect that Piper is so feared for.
12. Techniques used at “chest-to-chest” range. When a bully twice your size is literally pushing you around by grinding his chest into your face, that pen in your pocket and one or two simple techniques are all it takes to turn the situation around.
13. The “double whammy”. A simultaneous downward stab from overhead with a groin kick from below. One way or the other, your attacker won’t know what you hit him with.
14. The “letting yourself fall from a position of unbalancedness” footwork drill. Not as complicated as it sounds, doing this a few times will bring you to a point where feeling unbalanced will never stop you from executing a technique again. You overemphasize one of the “body dynamic drills” until you loose your balance. You learn to then use this momentum to directly move into an attack.
15. The “slow-motion” footwork drill. This drill allows you to work your footwork in a very different way from the one above, i.e. by moving slowly and deliberately, your footwork becomes natural and is programmed automatically into your system.
16. The use of focus mitts gives you the opportunity to fully apply your power against a moving opponent.
17. The “wall drill”. Sometimes you just don’t have a training partner. That’s when a wall can help you hone some of your movement skills.
And more….including training methods never before revealed to the public.
Plus a free special report as a bonus that is yours to keep even if you should decide to return the DVD for a full refund, as unlikely as that might be, given the depth and value of the material you will be seeing. If you are not one hundred percent happy, return the DVD to us, and we will immediately and fully refund your money, no questions asked, no explanation needed!
This report covers the body dynamics of Piper, how this body dynamic compares to the body dynamics of other systems, such as Western boxing and the Chinese Internal Arts and how good body movement is the key to achieving mastery in any martial art.
The report holds the “secrets” of 41 years of solid martial arts practice and includes everything I have learnt in a journey that spans Alexander technique teachers, Feldenkrais work, Piper, Internal Arts masters in the Far East, Israeli special forces instructors in Tel Aviv and the incomparable Orlando Cani in Rio de Janeiro, who is Rickson Gracie’s movement teacher.
I could easily have turned this into a seperate e book and sold it to you, but I want you to have it for showing such an interest in Piper. It will open your eyes to a core area of martial arts practice, whether you decide to keep the DVD or not!
So how much is this DVD going for? It’s cheap…less than a couple of month’s tuition at the local Mc Dojo that would leave you trying to work out which arm is which if you were attacked at that point. And nothing at all compared to all the chiropractor visits you will be saving on by keeping your back oiled and pain-free with these movements.
At $49.95 I will take care of the airmail shipping for you. What’s more, if you decide to buy both the DVD and the e-book at the same time, I will give you a five dollar discount on the total. And if you have already bought the e-book, I would like to show my appreciation for your support by giving you a five dollar discount on the DVD! If you use that button, please add your e book “username” to the “message” panel.
Please note that the company that has filmed this (using two cameras at the same time so as to give you different angles, close-ups and slow motion) will use your postal address to determine whether they need to send you a “U.S.A.” compatible DVD or a “rest of the World” compatible DVD.
Here’s what to do now:
Select the option that applies to you.
Click on the appropriate option in the scroll-down menu.
Click on “Add to cart”. This takes you to Paypal.
Please fill in your full postal address that you want the DVD sent to, in the space that says “Messages”. Your postal address will determine what “region DVD” you will be sent.
Your username, if you already have the e-book and are selecting the $5 discount option for the DVD.
Paypal sends an e mail to confirm your payment. This e mail goes to me and I forward your order to the production company. I will send your report as soon as I receive the e mail and the production company will ship the DVD. Any questions you might have, please feel free to e mail me!
PLEASE NOTE:
We will begin processing orders on Monday, 21st November 2011. The first orders will be shipped out between the 29th November and the 5th December, Airmail, so that it will hopefully get to you before Xmas.
One thing though, having talked to Nigel February and gotten his go-ahead with this project, I need to tell you that there are those within the community of Piper instructors who have already expressed their unhappiness about Piper being accessible to all in this manner. There will always be those who prefer to hoard “the good stuff”.
This is even understandable, in a way, since invariably some clown somewhere will watch this DVD and, a week later, will come up with his “ancient Afrikan Knife system”, brought over from Africa on a slave ship by his great-granddaddy!
I am just incredibly lucky that Nigel is not only a phenomenal instructor but has always supported me to the hilt. There is a chance though, if the groundswell of unhappiness from the ranks becomes big enough, that I may need to pull this off the market, so I would strongly suggest that you grab this whilst I can still make it available to you.
Wishing You All The Best In Your Martial Arts Training
Erik Petermann
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