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TRAINING KAPAP
COMBATIVES
A number of us that contribute to PMCI are actively involved in tactical training and the product
development that goes hand in hand with this. We speak to others involved in the industry worldwide
on a regular basis and this month we’re turning our attention to self-defence and martial arts
training again as we speak to Master Avi Nardia from KAPAP Combatives.
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MCI: Avi, in your own words tell me what
led you to set up the KAPAP Combatives?
I’m an obsessive student! That quality of
mine has become a big part of my life and
made it dwell around the idea “Always
a student, sometimes a teacher“. It’s a
stepping stone for my students to learn
as I introduce them to the numerous ideas
and teachers and subject them to study
and exploration.
As I left the Israeli Army after experiencing
the war zone and serving on the land of
Lebanon pushing PLO and Syrian army drug cartels out in June
1982 as part of my Mandatory service I left to study Martial Arts
in the Far East. That journey has taken almost 8 years and as I
returned to Israel I started teaching anything I have learned and
knew at that time. I haven’t tried to find what was not good
in an existing systems or how they differ but more what I can
study and earn from studying and how to develop and increase
my knowledge.
KAPAP consists of everything that Avi Nardia has studied
and learned BUT as I got involved in teaching the IDF and
creating a new program for Military Krav Maga under the
supervision of Lt Colonel Avi Harus to upgrade the Krav Maga
system unfortunately he passed away and at that time the
army got more into politics.