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pmcimagazine.com TRAINING: KAPAP COMBATIVES PMCI: What exactly do you specialise in? I am specialised in studying, I am a very good student. I study Karate, Judo, Jiujutsu, BJJ, Kyudo, Kendo, Iaido, Jodo, Thai Boxing, Boxing and many other arts. I have always seen myself as Avi Nardia, swordsman and combative. I have been studying martial arts to the highest level: Karate to 6 dan , Kendo to 6 dan, Aiki Kenpo Jiujutsu. I’m one of the leading instructors under Hanshi Patrick McCarthy who is one of the most talented martial arts teacher and who I look up to as one of the most important roots of KAPAP. I am studying “Brazilian Jiujutsu” with the Machado family Machado RCJ and I am an owner of their black belt too. I also teach and share BJJ art and I’ve been a guest BJJ teacher in Brazil as well. I used to love firearm training and I taught different styles of firearm training, mostly based on self-defence, but also sport and competition for fun too. PMCI: Who do you see as your target customer for your courses? For many years it was different units of the army and police but today I’m more into targeting civilians like kids, adults, and women for the world is constantly changing, not many times for good. We can see how values and morals have decreased and drugs and terror controlling the population and getting into all pores of life. In Israel we all get born hand to hand with terrorism and it is part of our lives to deal with it and fight it on a daily level. But nowadays people worldwide feel threatened by it. It seems that terror doesn’t come only for a visit but likes staying and becoming part of daily life all over world. This is why KAPAP Combative open doors more and more to the civilians and people from all walks of life, also in the form of kids classes. PMCI: I know that you have access to excellent training facilities that you make use of worldwide; can you tell me more about them and what you do there? We have a CQB school in Thailand where students can take any course starting with army skills, survival and SERE to parachuting, firearms class from hand guns to rifle, boat and different skill that are closed to civilians and open only to army and special units. It includes tactical driving, and a VIP protection school run by a good friend of mine. I used to be a Master Instructor for long time in CQB school but today I only teach on occasional basis, from time to time because I’m busy with other projects. My students like taking classes there as same as in Serbia in one small town close to Belgrade. The city Pozarevac has a very good firearm school called “GROM” (Thunder) with great team members who offer different defensive training almost each month for hand guns, rifle, shotgun, gun transitions, low light, behind cover and many others skills. You can easily find many video clips of the GROM shooting school at the Avi Nardia Youtube channel where you can see great training lead by Master Željko Vujčić. PMCI: You also provide training to the military; what does this entail? We keep teaching for example in Serbia units like PTJ ( counter terror unit ), ZANDARMERIJA and also police units in Israel and military units worldwide that most times I am kindly asked not to mention to the public. I am teaching only countries who are friendly to Israel and stand for democratic values. My credo is “Safety first, safety last” and if safety is not in the first place I will not teach even if I was asked to do it by Delta force itself. I have noticed that many units neglect safety and let ego dominate the training. Safety starts from basic safety rules that I apply from organising a firearm range and how to set guns at the range and perform drills, how to clear gun. Before every training I must be sure that only my safety rules and standards will be applied to the training for many units have different ideas what safety consists of. When you teach the firearm dry fire is the most important part of the training. It needs to take 60 % of the training and only when students get nice skills we move to the basic skills with ammo from trigger control, renew contact, malfunctions, changing magazines, working behind cover, shooting from cars, window, 12
door and so on but all this cannot be done without being hundred percent sure that safety is first and last. A year ago one Russian instructor nominated himself as the deadliest person ever and published lots of Rambo style video clips. One of them was a clip with 5 students in the shooting range where he shoots his student four times by accident! Where ego is high and safety low the accident can always happen. PMCI: Do you train just military and police personnel or civilians too? My goal and agenda in the last couple of years is to move my teachings more to teaching civilians. The main problem with civilians is that they fall for marketing and since all web sites today look the same it’s difficult for them to know who is who. Any former solider can become an expert or hero, but people forget that after all having a yellow belt in Karate even if you’ve been a soldier doesn’t meant that you can’t teach hand to hand. Every day I see 22 years old guys that have just left the army and have never been instructor in army and for sure not in the police calling himself expert and grand master. They thrive from the fact that many students only want a certificate and rubber stamp to set them as instructor. I always say that if you set a crown on a clown it doesn’t make him a king. This is the main reason why the market is not up to the highest standards but run by low level expectation mostly also because of the instant gratification that became a modern trend that everything needs to be achieved in few months or weeks only. People are used to getting what they want in an easy way and very fast and this is opening doors to many so called instructors who are willing to sell illusions instead of real knowledge. PMCI: Do you offer training in specialized equipment? We offer different training including stick fights, swords fight, fire arms, gun disarming , knife fighting and disarming, and from time to time also special trainings like parachuting, or boats assaults survival skills, arctic survival that some time need some gear BUT at our main and regular training all you need is cloth. Some trainings are done in the field under the sun and some inside a gym where most of the time you don’t need any gear PMCI: Do you have all the equipment available as part of your courses? Students don’t need any special gear unless it’s some special training when they get a list of equipment needed. At the regular training we offer most of the gear and pads, but for boxing for example students need to have their own gloves, mouth protectors and so on for hygiene purposes. PMCI: Once trainees have successfully completed one of your courses can they buy the equipment from you or are you able to direct them to the correct supplier? Yes we have organized a seminar called “Knife Only” where students get the knives and use it and could also keep it after the training. We organize also “Spikey” training where students get the tool as part of the course. We have a store on my web site where you can find the KAPAP book and gear and where you can also get books and DVD by Amazon. I’m not a big marketing expert person and not a big salesman but we have a store at the website in order to help students find everything they need. PMCI: Once trained, how do those successfully attending your courses go about finding employment? Most students who attend my Instructors program have already their own schools and only want to incorporate the KAPAP program into their school as another way of combative and selfdefence. Some new instructors set up new schools or rent space in order to start to teach. Most of them who join the Instructors program are already instructors who want to enrich their knowledge and get jobs as security officers or police or army personnel. PMCI: Without going into specifics, who do you, and your successful trainees, work with? I can give Fabian Garcia from Argentina as an example. He is working with the Argentinian army Police and prison guard system and has also spread KAPAP all over south America in countries like Peru, Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay. Diogo from Brazil is working with BOPE in Brazil and also with other police units. For me success is not measured by working for the police or army only. We have a great example of Sam Markey from UK who was working with handicapped people and this is very important to me to bring KAPAP close to civilians and also to civilians with disabilities so we can change their lives and make them feel strong and better prepared for life. PMCI: Where do you see KAPAP Combatives evolving in the future? I can see KAPAP Combatives more under the A.N.A.; Avi Nardia Academy. As I already said 20 years ago no one has even heard about the KAPAP but I have been working really hard ever since and I haven’t been always easy on my students who weren’t promoted that easily and I also haven’t allowed people to teach unless they went through all four levels of KAPAP. Only in some rare cases I have agreed to let some people teach with Level One only. Today there are so many people who have earned the KAPAP Level One and saw their chance to take advantage of KAPAP’s good reputation and credibility to make easy money and sell certificates to anyone who wants to pay. This is why I have decided to set the program under my name, Avi Nardia. It is the only way to stop this upcoming avalanche and continue working on my agenda the way KAPAP is meant to work and function. My goal is to include MORE civilians and kids and women into the system and to present KAPAP more as a self-defence system and less as an assault military system. I like thinking about KAPAP as an Israeli Jiujutsu. PMCI: If someone reading this article likes the sound of what you offer, what should be their next step? My goal is not to have anyone who will read this join KAPAP tomorrow! I’m looking for integrity first of all. My goal is not to have opportunist students who change their teachers every few month and so organisation and ranks... I am not looking for these guys. I’m looking for people who are ready to do research, to go to youtube to watch video clips, to take a look at a few DVDs and then contact me and come to see the training to get their own impressions. I am not looking for students who are into rumours and only want to wear T Shirt with Commando or Army or Special Forces logos. It’s a joke that many people go with an army uniform to the city mall to do their two hours training and go home. If someone wants to be a solider or commando he needs to join the army! There are no wannabees in my school and I kindly ask all of them not to waste my time as I am very busy and my goal is to spend my time on students who want to study. PMCI: Master Avi, thank you for taking the time to speak with us and give an insight to what you do. I’m certain that there is something you offer that would be pertinent to each and every one of our readers! www.avinardia.com www.kapapacademy.net www.avinardiablog.com TRAINING: KAPAP COMBATIVES pmcimagazine.com
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