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Teaching modern Martial Arts and Reality‐

Based self‐defense, many times we are faced

with questions like: “Why do you study

Brazilian Ju‐jutsu?” or “Why do you study

Judo?” or “Why do you study Japanese

Swordsmanship?”, and ultimately with“What do those disciplines have to do with

modern Martial Arts and Reality‐Based self‐

defense?”

Most Reality‐Based practitioners forget who

the founders of their systems are, and the

roots of that system, but it’s always

important to remember those roots. We

also see it within the Martial Arts.

 Avi Nardia:

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KAPAP COMBATIVES

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I was born and raised in Israel and joined thermy, and thus I cannot agree with some

Krav Maga schools that declare: “We are not 

a traditional Martial Art, we are a no‐

nonsense Martial Art.” With ego‐laden talk 

like this, falling is a big risk — and it’s too

high of a risk.

Krav Maga is also based on traditional 

Martial Arts, and all of it’s moves come from

old manuals and books that were available

and utilized during the World War II era,

including many Martial Arts books about 

Karate, Judo, Hand‐to‐Hand Combat and Ju‐

utsu. I’ve never seen a move that I hadn’t 

already seen in old Martial Arts books, way 

before Krav Maga was born. All of Krav 

Maga’s kicks and strikes have been taken

rom many different Martial Arts and have

been set into one puzzle in Israel, to teach

ast self‐defense to it’s Army personnel. Krav 

Maga techniques were to be based on a few 

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simple criteria: techniques had to

incorporate only a few minimal moves and 

techniques could not be overly complicated,

as they might not always be effective. And 

many times techniques were developed and 

taught to give the soldiers confidence and basic self‐defense tools, but nothing more.

When I returned to Israel in 1992, after 

almost eight years in the Far East studying

Martial Arts, I must admit that as a Martial 

artist that desired to study Martial Arts, if I 

could have found the knowledge that I sought so close to my door, I would not have flown

all the way to the Far East to study!

Lt. Colonel Avi Harus, R.I.P., asked me to

setup a new more advanced program, that 

would achieve a few simple goals: it should 

be less injurious to it’s students, and it should 

 prepare cadets to join the Israeli Special 

Forces. This is where I began to see the good 

things in Israeli Martial Arts systems as well 

as the bad things, and I began to progress it,

to develop it to the next level, to teach it, to

ully experience it and to thoroughly test it.

This experience eventually lead me to being

recruited by a top Israeli unit after they had 

tested most of the current Israeli systems and 

instructors in Israel, including some ex‐

Yamam members. They found that the

 program that I developed was the best 

 program suited for them and this is where

KAPAP, the newest Israeli Martial Art,

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originated.

Together with Lt. Colonel Chaim Peer and his

vast experience, we went to the Special 

Forces to discover what their needs were, and 

there we worked with one of the most inspiring Martial Artists that I know, Hanshi

Patrick McCarthy, who also functioned as an

advisor.

We started proposing the most advanced 

system to the unit. Through the years the

system would

be changed and it got more and more

 progressive, most recently with the addition

of Machado RCJ Ju‐jutsu. I was honored to be

one of the RCJ instructors and I was also chie

instructor for Aiki Kenpo Ju‐jutsu, under 

Hanshi Patrick McCarthy.

Thus, since the Krav Maga system is taught 

to kids, it is not really accurate to claim that 

Krav Maga is the official system for the

Israeli Army. There are no kids in the Israeli

Army.

We are teaching a new and modern system,with some of it’s roots emanating from the

army, the police and counter‐terrorism

units, but with it’s main roots coming from

the traditional Martial Arts. With Kapap

expanding into the civilian and world‐wide

marketplace, the system acquired the name

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Face‐to‐Face (Krav Panim El Panim.) As aninternational name, it was less and less

‘Israeli.’ As Kapap progressed, there were

more new ways to study and progress over

the years to make Kapap more of a ‘wide‐

angle system.’ Now, even the world‐widesystem is hard to define as it’s more of a

concept, and once a concept becomes a

system it starts to get limited and once we

define Zen it stops being Zen.

Krav Maga students and or it’s instructors

have been quoted as saying “No groin, noKrav Maga.” We’ve tried to take the ego out 

of Kapap and we say “No brain, no Kapap.”

We see Kapap as a three‐stage Martial Art:

1) The Combative component

 2) The Sport/Recreational component

3) The Traditional Martial Arts component

We have no problem competing in Mixed

Martial Arts, Boxing, Thai Boxing, Ju‐jutsu,

Judo, Brazilian Ju‐jutsu and more. All o

these systems serve as a great referencepoint and provide great study materials.

There are those that say: “Train as you fight,

fight as you train”, but this quote also

reveals a real misunderstanding of reality. I

you were to train as you’d fight, you would

be dead or badly injured, but we teach

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“Safety First, Safety Last.”

Some say: “In the street, there is no referee.”

Thank God it’s like that, because if you lose

in the ring the fight will be stopped and you

can learn a lesson from your loss. If you liveby your ego alone and avoid the challenge o

competing, you have already lost, as you

probably fear losing and excuse it by relying

on empty phrases like “in the street, there is

no referee.” You hide your fear, and can’t 

face seeing yourself losing in the ring.

Always remember that if someone can

knock you out in the ring he could do it in

the street and that competing in the ring

only gets you close to what a street fight 

might be like. Still, it’s much closer than

training and sparring only in a dojo. In the

ring you will experience a more realistic

fight, you will experience a certain level o

fear and you will experience the effects of a

real adrenalin rush, in a safe, but different 

way. Don’t feed your ego and live in this

dangerous fantasy until one day, when you

get taken by surprise and by get into a real

fight in the street. Remember that i

someone can kick you in the head or knock 

you down in the ring, they can also kick you

in the groin and attack your eyes in the

street. Your attacker is not deluded like you

are, and he will not fight and abide by your

rules, he will only go with his.

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Many Reality‐Based systems also claim that:

“In the street, the ground is the last place

you want to fight.” We would also add that a

gun or a knife is also the last weapon that 

we’d want to fight. We don’t even want to

fight. So, by not studying ground‐work, youwill never understand how to get yoursel

up from the ground if your attacker puts

you there, and with so many Mixed Martial

Art 

ists and ground fighters around today, you

may face a guy that will take you to theground, your first time, and you will lose. By

failing to prepare, you prepare to fail.

We also see Reality‐Based students dressing

up with helmets, rifles, handguns and

knives. We think that’s funny. Who would

even consider attacking someone that 

dresses this way? It’s just not realistic. No

normal person goes out into the streets like

that — for example, brandishing multiple

knives. The guy looks like “Bob the Builder.”

To go out into public that way, with ten

knives on your belt, portrays you as a bully

with a huge ego, and it will only result in

legal issues for you. How would you explain

yourself in a court of law? “Bob, why do you

carry so many knives on you?” If you

experience a street‐fight, and use just one o

those ten knives, and the attacker is injured

or killed, you could be arrested for assault 

with a deadly weapon or murder.

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We define the fight as having three distinct 

phases or stages:

1) Pre‐Conflict:

The preparation that includes awareness,

 psychological preparation for an attack,

hand‐to‐hand training for the fight, ground 

ighting, weapons training, and thinking

about the legal aspects

2) The Conflict

What happens if you could not prevent it?

3) Post‐Conflict

You will likely need to explain to a Police

Officer why you are carrying ten knives for 

self‐defense, and then do the same to a judgeand a jury

You will be charged with a crime.

A crime is customarily defined as having

three elements:

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1) Possessing the tools to commit the

crime

i.e. those ten knives you were carrying!

2) The Intention

Carrying those ten knives with you and with

the intent of using them when you thought it 

might be appropriate to do so

3) The Opportunity

You were there when it happened

This fight with our ego and evil reminds us

also that as Martial Artists we must not only

demonstrate and utilize our integrity, and

many morals and values but that we must 

also teach them. Many times we see

instructors teach that knives are an evil tooland they show how you can cut and slash

with a knife but they forget to teach as part 

of their training that we can also avoid

taking life. We must try to save lives, not 

take lives. Just because you can does not 

mean that you should. The Samurai code as

we interpret it is that you should use thesword to GIVE life, not to TAKE life.

Traditional Martial Arts start with

education and morals, and then adds skills.

This ideology reminds me of my teachers

words:

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On Ko Chi Shin (Study the old, understand 

the new)

Examine things of the past, and obtain the

new knowledge and the opinion from there.

This is a proverb from Confucius that is

used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

cultures. It can be translated several ways:

Coming up with new ideas based on things

learned in the past.

Examine things of the past, and obtain newknowledge.

Develop new ideas based on a study of the

past.

Gain new insights through restudying old

issues.

Understand the present by reviewing the

past.

Learning from the past.

Review the old and know the new.

Taking a lesson from the past.

Taking a lesson from the wisdom of the

ancients.

Follow the old ways.

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The direct translation would be: “By asking

old things, know new things.” To learn new

things that are outside of your experience,

you can learn from old things of the past.

You can find wisdom from history.

uthors:

Hanshi Patrick McCarthy

[http://www.koryu‐uchinadi.com, Koryu

Uchinadi Kenpo‐jutsu]

Maj. Avi Nardia [www.avinardia.com,

www.kapapacademy.net ]

Tim Boehlert

© Copyright, 2013 Hanshi Patrick 

McCarthy, Maj. Avi Nardia & Tim

Boehlert 

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