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I'm replacing Robbie Kramer for a moment just to introduce our next speaker who's a pretty amazing guy If there were four things that truly changed my life It would be my experience in the seduction community what women taught to me and all that fun stuff It would be what I learned here about paleo and in having the you know What my physical body was meant to be and eating right now that sort of stuff Meditation we had speakers speak on that as well And then the fourth thing would be my experience with martial arts and finding myself through those things I've trained martial arts For forever for all my life, you know since I was a boy in many different styles and with amazing teachers and The guy I'm about to introduce to you today is literally the best hands-down person that I've worked with and who's taught me the most about myself and Is a reflection in all of my life and what we do and probably one of the most dangerous guys that you will ever ever meet? His name is Edward Akin. He runs a company called force dynamics with an X. Commercially. We'll tell you all about Ed All right, thank you So All right, let's see if I can do this justice here Thank You Steve. Thank you Anthony for for giving me opportunity to be here. I'm based out of Austin, Texas So I don't do a whole lot of these speaking things So we'll see how it goes But I do do a lot of teaching and I want to start with a little brief Background of myself because it sets the frame for what we're going to learn about today. Okay, and it's a concept I call forcing the dark side and Before you start thinking it's about stalking ladies of the night putting in the trunk of your car It's a little it's a little bit of that it's a little bit of that so there's a lot of useful things in here but we will define what this is and It's really more so if you guys aren't in martial arts, don't worry about it This is a concept that has changed my life In many ways and hopefully if you if we get to the point where I can You know define it clearly for you what it is why you should develop it and how you can develop that Given the time and you guys actually put in the applications. You will see some amazing results for yourself so getting back to Myself I've been doing martial arts for 30 some odd years. I'm 40 now so I started very early and The reasons I got into the martial arts are very similar to the reasons why a lot of people get in the seduction community Okay, I was basically The the AFC of the fighting world. I was a I grew up in rural Michigan. I had no Friends to play with so I had little to no social skills when I was younger and so by the time I got to a larger School I started getting my ass handed to me every day by this group of guys and it got worse and worse over the years so My mother bless her had had enough so but by the time I was about in sixth grade She decided to Enroll me in some martial arts and I had had some judo and some other things when I was a little bit younger But this was really out of a necessity to to stop getting beat up every day and so of course Back then we didn't really have functional martial arts, right? We had YMCA karate and some taekwondo and maybe some some crazy kung fu stuff So the very act of enrolling me in martial arts didn't really help the ass beatings and forgive my French But they actually Increased them especially in the first fight when my karate actually came out. Yeah, it wasn't good. So but that was the the impetus for me to to get into the martial arts was really self-preservation Okay, it was it had nothing to do with the traditional Tradition of the martial arts or that side of things which now I've come full circle to appreciate But it was really you know just much like the AFC out there with girls who's shot down time after time after time I was getting beat up time after time after time and so what this this did to me is it made me After after training and I didn't want to give up my training To seek out a functional martial arts and it took me to about the age of 17 To actually find something and and it's an art called jacando concepts And it's really Bruce Lee's approach of how to train in the martial arts and really back then it's a precursor to MMA It's cross training these guys were boxing kickboxing using weapons doing some grappling And so it was finally at the age of 17 that I found a functional art and so it was really through this self-preservation Journey the the really because all the all the philosophy in the world and in the martial arts at that time Did me no good when I was actually in school and after school and you know on the playground getting getting beat up it didn't help and this is one of those things that it's behind This this idea of killer instinct and what killer instinct is it's really it's an idea but it's the base of killer instinct is what I call primal driver and The reason that we have martial arts in the first place is out of that primal driver And it's very similar to the reason why we have the seduction community Which is also a primal driver and so when we start working with these forces, right? Which we'll get into a little bit more. They are universal forces out there This is why when people are in the seduction community and they really get into connecting with women Right, they're tapping into that primal source. And what is that primal source? Well, what drives the seduction community the very existence of it is for us as a species to procreate Right, we as men have that drive to go out and seek out women to ensure that we spread the seed to Make sure that the species survive so we can experience life Well the same thing in the martial arts when we have killer instinct or self-preservation We need that to ensure that our family ourselves and our tribe are going to be safe, right when we started Going through warring times and we actually had tribes We had other warring tribes come in and if your tribe was wiped out we didn't survive So this is a primal driver to also experience life that we're tapping into and I call it forcing the dark side because We have to we have to get we're talking about life and death and we have to get in touch with that And it's not necessarily on the surface a good thing in many contexts, right? We don't want to just walk out there and be this this sadistic animal It doesn't work in the modern world, but as a result of the modern world We've lost touch with this many of us have you know and a lot of that is social programming A lot of that has to do with our environment, you know sitting in front of the computer it limits our focus We don't get to express ourselves as men So I wanted to use this subject because I think it's a good theme for this this venue But I'm going back to myself right around when I was 17 and I started training in G I started turning the tides in my fight. I started having some results There were still fights where I would stalemate with people I'd still get black eyes I still you know not be where I wanted to be I still didn't have the self-image that I needed years and years of You know not having social skills would do damage to your self-image But it was through this that led me to go to California and start training with another JKD expert Paul Vunak and at the time I believe I was 19 when I started training with him He was just getting done with his contract with seal team six out of Virginia Beach. Okay, and Vunak Is is one of the biggest influences on my life, but he's also has in the martial arts community At that time he kind of was a sore subject because he was just about fighting. Okay, he was in the streets Perfecting his his art, you know in actual bad situations. We're not talking about just you know a mono a mono with one guy He put himself in really bad situations to see what worked Okay, and that caught the eye of the government who then in turn wanted him to train seal team six and how he got Yeah, how he got the eye of the government as a whole another story but so