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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,