Kapap Mexico

Instintos en Kapap

2011-05-25T15:04:00.000-05:00

El mito de ser civilizados, ha hecho que cada vez le hagamos menos caso a nuestros instintos, cada vez dependemos más de la tecnología y olvidamos las bases de lo que somos.
Los instintos nos ayudan a preservarnos como especie, el instinto de supervivencia y la adaptabilidad hicieron del ser humano la especie dominante sobre la Tierra.
El ignorar los instintos, nos predispone como víctimas, va en contra de la naturaleza y eso es percibido por quienes pretenden hacernos daño.
El entrenamiento que ofrece Kapap, nos permite mantener ese instinto despierto y nos muestra la importancia de éste en nuestra vida diaria.
El instinto de supervivencia nos permite evitar situaciones potencialmente peligrosas y nos permite reaccionar cuando el peligro se presenta.
Kapap regula esa previsiòn y prevención, mostrando una perspectiva diferente del mundo. Asì mismo nos da el conocimiento y elementos necesarios para salir lo mejor librados posible de una situación adversa.

Kapap México en Pro de una Defensa Personal Responsable.

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Defensa Personal en Kapap México

2011-05-20T13:57:00.000-05:00

En la defensa personal existen muchas equivocaciones conceptuales, siendo la primera el hecho de pensar que es un arte marcial.
Las artes marciales son la base, el fundamento, pero la defensa personal abarca una mentalidad diferente, se trata de sobrevivir un ataque en el cual nos encontramos en desventaja.
Muchas veces se utiliza el concepto de "luchar por mi vida o la suya", esto es cierto en la guerra, pero en la calle, en la realidad que vivimos en nuestro País, el concepto debe ser que ambos luchamos por MI vida. El oponente lucha por quitármela y yo lucho en desventaja, por conservarla.
En los entrenamientos, mucha gente, en especial las mujeres, no dan el esfuerzo debido porque todo el tiempo están pensando en lo mal que se sentirían de lastimar a su oponente. Esto es por el concepto de que es mi vida o la de él. Pero si logramos cambiar la percepción del entrenamiento a que la mentalidad sea de que oponente y víctima luchan por la misma vida, entonces los resultados en el entrenamiento cambiarán grandemente a favor de nuestros alumnos.

La defensa personal es un estado mental.

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Falta de disciplina o irresponsabilidad

2011-05-06T14:11:00.000-05:00

Muchas veces nos encontramos en una posición difícil, ya sea porque un alumno comienza a faltar más de lo habitual o porque un instructor empieza a fallar en sus tareas. Como dueños de un negocio dedicado a la defensa personal y/o artes marciales, el encontrar el justo medio entre el qué debo hacer y el qué quiero hacer al respecto.

Existen muchos factores que puede estar desencadenando este comportamiento, en ambos casos la persona que está incumpliendo debería acercarse y dar una explicación lógica a su proceder.

Pero en qué momento se debe tomar una solución más agresiva y dar de baja al faltista?

Por desgracia nos enfrentamos a una idiosincrasia en donde no solamente la gente no tiene la humildad y educación de acercarse y dar una explicación, sino que tiene la arrogancia de ofenderse cuando uno tiene que hacerlo para obtener una explicación.

Una vez más el ego y la falta de educación, combinación letal, pueden dañar a la academia, escuela, dojo, etc.; no sólo económicamente, sino en su reputación y prestigio.

Hacen falta años de trabajo para construir y sólo unos minutos para destruir.

Es de suma importancia el inculcar a las nuevas generaciones valores de calidad humana que permitan una convivencia armoniosa.

El ego y la arrogancia no pueden ni deben tener cabida en el medio de la defensa personal y las artes marciales. Como instructores debemos enseñar estos principios a nuestros alumnos, son fundamentos de toda disciplina marcial; pero como hacerlo si el instructor es el primero en fallar. Debemos predicar con el ejemplo.

En Kapap México, procuramos estos principios a nuestro alumnado, mostrando tenacidad, disciplina y carácter en nuestros entrenamientos de Kapap. Nunca debemos olvidar el hecho de que siempre habrá alguien más fuerte o mejor preparado, al cual nos enfrentemos. No debemos subestimar a nadie, no debemos subestimarnos a nosotros mismos.

Una persona disciplinada y responsable siempre podrá caminar con la frente en alto, siempre será apreciada por sus valores, siempre será bienvenida en nuestra Comunidad de Kapap México.

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El Ego en nuestro entrenamiento

2010-11-08T16:30:00.003-06:00

Muchas veces el ego es un factor en nuestros entrenamientos, siendo un elemento nocivo que no nos permite evolucionar. El ego se convierte en un freno para nuestras capacidades y en un factor de discrepancia con nuestros entrenadores y compañeros.

Por desgracia muchas veces el ego se aprende o se alienta por parte de nuestro entrenador, mismo que quiere probar todo el tiempo que es superior a cualquier alumno o que puede conquistar a cualquier alumna.

En el entrenamiento debe haber solamente humildad, no hay peleador lo suficientemente bueno que no pueda aprender, ni hay principiante del cual no se pueda aprender. Al aceptar que no somos perfectos o que no somos poseedores de la verdad absoluta podremos resaltar como persona y/o peleadores.

Existen artes marciales en las cuales su naturaleza o su medio permiten que se crezca el ego, pero en la defensa personal éste no tiene cabida, el ego solamente hará que nos maten. La mentalidad de la defensa personal debe ser la de sobrevivir, salir lo mejor librado posible de una situación adversa. Existe tal diversidad de factores externos en una situación real, incluyendo la suerte, que nadie puede pretender tener el control absoluto y presumir de tener la técnica mágica que salvará el momento.

La defensa personal es un proceso de educación continua que requiere de un gran número de repeticiones, de un gran número de horas de entrenamiento, con oponentes que presenten una resistencia real, solamente así podremos contar con las habilidades necesarias para tratar de sobrevivir, pero sin la pretensión de que saldremos limpios.

En Kapap México buscamos que los estudiantes adopten esta mentalidad en su entrenamiento, buscando una defensa personal responsable.

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Por que razones entrenar?

2010-05-13T23:03:00.000-05:00

Al escoger un arte marcial o una disciplina, debemos tener bien claro el objetivo que queremos alcanzar. Este objetivo puede ser un cinturón, una forma de vida, un trofeo, conocimiento y capacitación.
Este objetivo nos permitirá realizar una decisión educada acerca de la disciplina que debemos o podemos seleccionar.
La defensa personal, como la enseñamos en Kapap México (www.kapap-mexico.com), así como Kapap Academy (www.kapap-academy.com), prepara al estudiante a enfrentarse a situaciones de peligro ante un oponente que se resiste. Esta particularidad permite desarrollar reacciones instintivas que facilitarán el poder combatir una agresión de la vida real.
El facilitar al estudiante actuar con base en sus instintos y desarrollar su memoria neuromuscular, incrementará las posibilidades de éxito de salir lo mejor librado posible de una situación adversa.
Debemos recordar que en la calle no existe el riesgo cero, ni las técnicas infalibles, el que ofrezca eso, está ofreciendo castillos en las nubes. La diferencia entre sobrevivir o no, está fuertemente relacionado con las ganas particulares de cada quien de vivir. Es por eso que debemos entrenar cuerpo y mente, para poder evaluar cada situación de manera acorde y en caso de ser necesario, pelear por nuestra vida.

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Seminarios de Kapap en México. Abril 2010

2010-04-27T13:33:00.000-05:00

Con gran éxito concluimos la serie de seminarios que se llevaron a cabo en las instalaciones de Kapap México.
Estos fueron impartidos por Kapap Academy, cuyo presidente, Albert Timen, así como Jon Kleineman, retaron nuestra percepción acerca de la defensa personal.
Se contó con una nutrida participación de alumnos de diferentes disciplinas que buscan ampliar sus conocimientos en la materia.
El seminario de prevención del secuestro nos mostró una cara diferente de la prevención. Muchos de nosotros esperábamos una serie de técnicas que nos permitieran salir de situaciones comprometedoras, sin embargo aprendimos que la mentalidad de prevención y el deseo por sobrevivir es lo que realmente marca la diferencia.
Adicionalmente los instructores de Kapap México recibimos capacitación enfocada únicamente a la mejora de la metodología de enseñanza, para que de este modo podamos hacer su experiencia en Kapap México mejor y más productiva,

Deseamos poder contar con la participación de todos Ustedes en próximos eventos, incrementando así la cultura de prevención y defensa personal en nuestro País.

Les recordamos que Kapap México se encuntra ubicado en Eje 10 Sur No. 27, a una cuadra del Metro Coplico.
Para mayores informes, comunicarse con Gustavo Lara al 2475-7119 o al correo gus.lara@kapap-mexico.com

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En Pro de una defensa personal responsable

Seminario Prevención del Secuestro

2010-03-15T16:43:00.002-06:00

Seminarios Kapap

2010-03-15T16:41:00.003-06:00

Defensa personal

2009-08-29T20:26:00.004-05:00

Defensa Personal
En Kapap-México creemos en el lema “En Pro de una defensa personal responsable”. Empecemos con definir qué es defensa personal.
Existen muchas incógnitas alrededor de este concepto, muchas inducidas por la TV o las películas, pudiendo ser que el concepto preformado sea erróneo. La defensa personal consiste en salir lo mejor librado posible de una situación adversa.
Para salir lo mejor librado posible, no necesariamente debemos confrontar la situación de manera violenta. Lo más prudente será siempre usar nuestro cerebro y el sentido común, por desgracia éste es el menos común de los sentidos.
Si partimos de la idea de que todo conflicto se divide en tres partes, podremos entenderlo mejor.

Conflicto: 1. Preconflicto, 2. Conflicto y 3. Postconflicto

En la primera etapa o preconflicto, debemos mantener nuestros sentidos alerta, evitar situaciones peligrosas innecesarias, tomar medidas de seguridad básicas y evitar actuar como una presa en potencia.
Si actuamos de manera correcta en esta etapa, podremos evitar la mayoría de las situaciones adversas que podrían desencadenar en un conflicto como tal.
En la segunda etapa o conflicto, debemos poder mantener la cabeza fría a pesar del peligro inminente al cual nos estamos enfrentando, para esto sirven las horas y sudor en el entrenamiento.
Aún en esta etapa, la confrontación física no es absolutamente necesaria. En el momento de un asalto, lo mejor es cooperar con el delincuente, no tiene caso dar la vida por un reloj, si éste no va a dar la vida por nosotros.
Muchas veces la violencia escala durante esta etapa, Posiblemente el aprovechar una ventana de oportunidad y huir sea la mejor opción, otras veces será el llorar y mostrarse extremadamente abrumado por la situación.
En el caso en el que nuestra integridad física o la de nuestros seres queridos se vea amenazada, deberemos actuar con determinación y confianza. La violencia rara vez es la solución, pero si llega a serlo, es la única solución.
Si se presenta el momento de actuar, debemos poder confiar en el entrenamiento recibido, debemos poder confiar en nuestra capacidad física y en la mental.
Es en este momento que debemos aplicar principios como el de confusión y el de movimiento continuo, para tratar de asegurar la victoria.
Cabe hacer mención que la violencia con la que actuemos, deberá ser proporcional a la que estemos recibiendo, no puede haber defensa personal cuando esta fórmula no esté presente.
La tercera etapa o postconflicto, es el momento en el cual debemos enfrentarnos a las consecuencias de lo ocurrido en el conflicto, debemos considerar la parte médica, legal, moral y ética, siendo las dos últimas un proceso completamente personal. La parte legal de un conflicto siempre es difícil, muchas veces la legislación vigente aplicable se queda muy corta en materia de legítima defensa.
Una vez que entendemos estos conceptos, debemos utilizarlos en nuestro proceso de toma de decisión al escoger el arte marcial o técnica de combate que deseamos aprender. Debemos tener muy claro el para qué queremos aprenderla, realmente buscamos aprender defensa personal o nos inclinamos más por la parte deportiva o inclusive por la mística e historia que encierran algunas artes tradicionales.
La toma de decisión debe ser siempre informada y honesta, de esta manera obtendremos de nuestro entrenamiento el mayor beneficio posible. No hay arte o técnica buena o mala si se toma la decisión por las razones correctas.

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Nueva escuela

2009-01-23T19:06:00.003-06:00

A partir del 2 de febrero, contamos con nuevas instalaciones en eje 10 Sur No.27 a unos pasos del metro Copilco.

Tendremos además de Kapap, disciplinas como Muay Thai, Kick Boxing, BJJ, Sambo, Cuchillo, etc.

Kapap será impartido para hombres y mujeres, civiles y fuerzas policiacas, con el mayor respeto y discresión, en estricto apego a los lineamientos de Kapap Academy.

Habrá seminarios y cursos con personalidades del medio.

Bienvenidos los grupos y habrá paquetes de descuentos en las inscripciones.

Consúltenos en kapap.lara@gmail.com, al 2475-7119 o al 044 55 54543511

Kapap Nivel 2

2008-10-11T20:25:00.005-05:00

Se ha iniciado una nueva etapa en la Kapap Academy, se ha concluido con éxxito el entrenamiento y lanzamiento de la primera generación de instructores Nivel 2, avalados por Kapap Academy y sus fundadores Avi Nardia y Albert Timen.

El entrenamiento fue duro, pero como siempre, con la máxima seguridad posible para evitar una lesión o un accidente. Fue realizado en un periodo de diez días donde se abarcó una ambiciosa agenda de trabajo.

Entre más profundizamos en Kapap, más nos percatamos de su riqueza, así como de su dinámica. Es una técnica en constante evolución y adaprtación, tomando los puntos de mayor eficiencia de otras técnicas y artes, aplicándolas a una filosofía y conceptos.

Se tuvo la oportunidad de entrenar en combate cuerpo a cuerpo, de pie y en el piso, así como palos filipinos, PR-24, cuchillo (ataque y defensa), OC spray (Sabre Products), armas de fuego (point shooting), nociones de balística, desarmes y diversas actividades físicas destinadas no sólo al acondicionamiento físico, sino a la integración del equipo como una Unidad.

Del mismo modo, pudimos percibir uno de los puntos positivos más graificantes de la hermandad de Kapap Academy. El entrenamiento fue enriquecido por los conocimientos de diversos instructores tales como Paul, Jason Bob Job, jim, John, Uri, Mario, José; todos profesionales,, todos dispuestos a compartir sus conocimeintos y experiencias para acrecentar el nivel de Kapap Academy. La ausencia de egos a lo largo del entrenamiento fue reconfortante, confirmando una de las máximas de Kapap "Siempre estudiante, algunas veces maestro."

El entrenamiento dejó muchas cosas buenas, en lo personal y en lo profesional, cuento con una buena cantidad de hermanos Kapap, me dejó una gran valoración y una serie de oportunidades de crecimiento. Agradezco profundamente a Avi y Albert por la confianza y por su incondicional amistad. Agradezco el apoyo que me brindaron mis compañeros para completar exitosamente el entrenamiento. Hemos dado un paso más y me siento muy satisfecho.

Combate

2008-08-30T21:23:00.008-05:00

Cuando se entrena uno en defensa personal, debe tener en cuenta los tres aspectos del combate.

Existe el pre-combate, el combate y el post-combate.

En el pre-combate uno debe estar muy atento, debe hacer el análisis de peligros y la mitigación de riesgos. Este es el punto ideal donde resolver el conflicto. Uno no debe exponerse a pnerse en situaciones difíciles de manera innecesaria.

En el combate se deben utilizar todos los recursos con los que se cuenta. Recuerde que la violencia rara vez es la solución, pero cuando lo es, es la única solución.
Debe existir proporcionalidad entre la agresión recibida y la emitida, no podemos matar a alguien sólo porque nos empujó en el antro.
Hay que recordar que existe el factor "legítima defensa", línea muy delgada en nuestra legislación vigente aplicable.

En el post-combate debemos vivir las consecuencias de las dos fases anteriores. Existen repercusiones legales, morales, éticas, etc. Debemos poder vivir con nostros mismos después de haber lastimado, herido o matado a alguien.

Las tres fases son importantes, no podemos vivir un combate, sin un post-combate. El entrenamiento debe ser enfocado a desarrollar la capacidad de resolver los conflictos en el pre-combate y saber qué hacer en caso de entablar un combate. El post-combate no se enseña en una escuela o en un dojo, son cuestiones legales de cada país o región, pero las más importantes son las internas.

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Participación Kapap Academy USA

2008-08-15T00:17:00.001-05:00

Artículo de Kapap

2008-07-03T16:23:00.002-05:00

Por favor lean este artículo escrito por Avi Nardia

http://www.realfighting.com/content.php?id=103

Kapap Authors Take On Jungle Survival

2008-03-18T20:12:00.000-06:00

Kapap Authors Take On Jungle Survival

Kapap instructors and former Israeli Defense Force soldiers Avi Nardia and Albert Timen will put their skills to the test in the jungles of South America. Nardia and Timen are traveling to Guyana to do field research for a survival course they’re launching in April 2009. The authors of Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces plan to offer martial artists the chance to try their combat skills against the forces of nature.

“We do basic survival in the States for our students like first aid, an introduction to the outdoors, how to find north without a compass,” Nardia says. “[But the jungle is completely different] because you don’t have the sun, and this makes it much harder.”

The jungle survival course is for martial artists who really want to challenge their abilities in an unpredictable environment, Nardia says. Of course, safety is a concern for their preliminary program, and that’s why Nardia and Timen plan to spend 2008 researching and preparing the logistics for such a trip.

Nardia says, “[Kapap instructors] always try to study new things [and jungle survival] is a new skill. It’s not a joke.”—Sarah Dzida

Nadie tiene la vida comprada

2008-02-08T19:12:00.000-06:00

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Nadie tiene la vida comprada

KAPAP-Krav Panim El Panim The Analization of the Israeli Martial arts

2008-01-18T17:48:00.000-06:00

To understand Israeli Martial arts you need to understand the history of how it began and continues to exist and to see the goals acheived and what has been acomplished

You cannot sit in Los Angles and teach some celebraties Ïsraeli martial arts and¨claim to be the official system of the Israeli army if you have never served a day in the Israeli army. You would know nothing about it.

Israeli martial arts comes from ancient history and started around the late 1940s. This was due to the fact that during this time the Jewish people were under attack and they had to fight back, not so much for culture or a life style, they had to fight to survive.That is why it is wrong to put a belt system and bow to the anyone. You start to lose the idea of the Israeli martial arts which is more concept before it is a martial art.

There are many famous people who contributed to Israeli martial art history. One of the most famous is Solomon Aruch from which the movie ¨Triumph of the Spirit ¨was made about his true life story. Slomon Aruch had to fight on daily basis at the Nazi concentration camps to survive and the Nazis would arrange boxing matches and he would have to fight for his life. Their was also Hana Senseh. She was a woman paratrooper who also fought against the Nazi`s. In addition, their was Oli Giveon, he was the commander of the Revengers Unit that fought the Nazi`s and was later responsible for hunting down the Nazi war criminals. There are even many legendery fighter`s alive today such as Mehir Har Tzion and countless others.

This is the real history of the Israeli martial art and CQB training. It has been a long road for the Israeli martial arts and CQB and no one person should be allowed to take ownership of it and try to trademark it for profit. The Israeli martial arts and CQB has no one owner or creater !!!

As you start to study the Israeli martial art and CQB you need to understand the Israeli culture and to know as who is Eli Cohen and why it is a today a fight to get his body to Israel. You need to know who were the 11 Israeli athletes to be murdered at the Olympic games in 1972 ( see the movie "One Day in September" ). You should also know that the first victim of September 11 was Israeli, his name was Daniel Levin. He was the first to fight in the airplane with the terrorist and was mentioned in the September 11 report.

This is the history of the real Israeli martial arts and you need to understand that this is the way to the spirtit of fearlessness and determination from which the fighting spirit and the back bone of the Israeli martial arts and CQB training derive. So, if you want to learn this Israeli martial art it must be from this same spirit and heart that enables you to survive the fight. Don't learn Israeli martial arts because you have seen some actor in the movies or on T.V. and please don't fall for all the marketing scams, they know nothing about the real Israeli martial art.

The Development of Israeli KAPAP/CQB

Unfortunately, Israel is the most experienced nation in the world when it comes to terrorism and that is why it has developed one of the most valued CQB training systems in the world - the Israeli martial art of KAPAP/CQB, which has been written in special ink called blood. The knowledge gained in developing the martial art of KAPAP/CQB came from not only the experience of successful operations against terrorist attacks, but many times it came by making tragic mistakes. It was after these mistakes occurred that better techniques were developed to avoid making the same tragic mistakes again. For this reason, the Israeli martial art of KAPAP/CQB is about evaluation and evolution. Even today, the weapons of warfare and self-defence have evolved from earlier techniques and strategies. For example, a few hundred years ago the bow and arrow was a combat tool, while today we have guns - the bow and arrow of modern times and of modern martial arts. Just as the arrow was once the edged weapon projected towards a target, it is now the bullet that is the edged weapon. Instead of the bow as the force behind the delivering of the arrow, gunpowder now takes on the same role to deliver the bullet. That is why today, in the evolution of Israeli martial arts such as Kapap, we see guns being used as an integral part of the training, especially when it comes to gun disarming.Gun retention which should be taught as one unit together. Not only is it important to know how to disarm a gun, but you must also know how to retain it, and if necessary, use it. We see Guns and firearms as martial art !

Israeli CQB training, as well as KAPAP, owes its development to many different individuals. Though most of their names are missing from any list you will find, they have all contributed to the art and that is why no one individual can claim sole ownership of having developed it. As with any martial art, it is important to understand the origin of Israeli martial arts and to recognize the culture from which it began. For Israeli’s, the roots of Israeli CQB came from anti-Semitism and the Nazi’s desire to kill the Jews. It is the same feeling that some radical Muslim groups have today against Jews. It is from this climate of hatred that has given Israeli’s their fighting spirit and to fight back in order to survive. This is what Israeli martial arts is all about - to do whatever it takes to survive the fight. For Israeli’s, the reality is that when you’re in a fight for your life it’s not important how good you look delivering a spinning kick if there is a chance the technique will kill you. And why will it kill you? Simply because the spinning back kick is useless and the person you were fighting against used ugly, but practical, techniques to live another day.

Israeli KAPAP and Traditional Martial Arts

KAPAP was the first CQB training introduced in Israel and was based on stick fighting, knives, guns, and hand-to-hand and even stone throwing in the old days. The idea is to fight with what you have available in your hand. For instance, when people argue about what gun is the best gun to have or what knife is the best knife to have the answer is obvious – the best gun or knife, or any weapon for that matter, is the one you have in your hand when you need it. This is also the main idea behind Israeli KAPAP/CQB. It was not developed to create a new Ryu and lots of ¨new¨10th Dan grandmasters so that Israel could have a place in the international arena of martial arts. That is why there are no uniforms or belts or ranks or even bowing to an opponent when sparring or training. All are considered useless because they serve no purpose in an encounter involving a real, life-threatening situation. An example of what occurs during a real encounter occurred last year with a martial artist who was shot to death during a fight in parking lot. Although he was a kickboxing champion he lost his life to his assailant who shot him after he tried to grab the assailant’s gun. Certainly, if it were a fight in the ring the martial artist probably would have won the fight. However, the fight was for his life and not for prize money. This is not to say that every encounter will end successfully, but how you respond to a situation will depend on whether or not you have the ability to effectively defend yourself or the mentality to accept the fact that it is okay to run away from a situation in order to stay alive.

As mentioned earlier, Israeli KAPAP is based on evaluation and evolution, which must be done for every technique in order to examine if it accomplishes what it is designed to accomplish. In KAPAP, techniques are also evaluated to determine whether any soldier or police officer can do it and, for civilians, whether they can be done by the weakest man or woman. The techniques must also be easy to teach. If the individual or group has a very limited time to train, easier and simpler techniques can be implemented to accommodate these training needs. However, if there is time to train, better and more specific techniques are also taught. Another important consideration for teaching KAPAP is liability. When teaching military personnel, you teach soldiers to stay in the killing zone and continue the assault on the enemy. For a civilian, just the opposite applies. If after disarming a knife an individual decides to stay in the fight and attempts to kill the attacker there is a good chance that individual will be spending time in jail. Also, when teaching police officers, there are other things to consider since just about every law enforcement agency has a defensive tactics program that must not only be politically correct, but must also meet any legal and medical requirements before being implemented. So, although KAPAP is specific in its application it is still flexible enough to be used in any arena to meet liability concerns.

Today, CQB is a modern martial art while traditional martial arts are considered older styles. It is when these two are combined, the old with the new, that they can then be effective. In essence, modern martial arts can't live without the traditional martial arts nor can the traditional martial arts live without the modern martial arts. The bottom line is, when some one is going to kick you your life is not at risk, only your ego. However, when someone pulls a knife or points a gun at you, you need to know how, when and if you should act. If someone says, “Give me your money” the best defence is to give him your money. If the encounter becomes more life threatening then you must also defend yourself. The question is - do you have the tools to know what to do and how to do it? The Israeli martial art of KAPAP is the self-defence system that can provide you with these tools when your life, not your ego, is on the line.

Introduction to Close Quarters Battle (CQB)

CQB can be described as combat taking place within buildings, cars, hallways, stairwells, rooms, enclosures, and other constricted spaces. Although CQB training first started with military and law enforcement personnel, it is now being taught to security unit personnel and civilians. CQB is important to security forces because the techniques associated with CQB serve as the foundation for recapture tactics. As a result, security units and their personnel must have the ability to respond to a “worst case scenario” by recapturing the asset that it is protecting.

CQB can involve - individually or collectively, hand-to-hand combat, weapons, and more. As a result, we need to be proficient with every move. For instance, with hand-to-hand combat we cannot assume that the enemy will freeze up when we engage him. We need to think that he will counter our moves so we need to consider this and be ready for it in the fight – whether it is with a firearm or with a knife. That is why in Kapap we include these elements as a part of the hand-to-hand combat program.

Violent Confrontation

This term is used to describe a meeting of two or more combatants (even if one or more is passive) where there is the potential for or actual use of extreme destructive force. This type of confrontation usually occurs at close range in a short amount of time.

The SOP 9 Study

This study was conducted in New York and examined every shot fired in the line of duty by law enforcement officials during the course of one year. Out of a total of 2,047 shots fired that year only 217 actually hit their intended targets and only 10 percent of these shots hit vital organs. During interviews with the officers involved in these shootings the majority of them commented that they never even acquired their front sights when they engaged their target. Additionally, these officers also experienced some or all of the following:The confrontations took place at the range of ten feet or less with duration of less than four seconds. During this time, fewer than five rounds were fired.

* The typical response was from the holster.

* A sudden feeling of shock and surprise overwhelmed the officers.

The end result of this study showed that the police officers were NOT trained properly enough to handle these of life and death situations. Now, can you imagine what it would be like for a civilian who has even less training than these officers? That is why, for civilians, realistic training is needed and should be conducted by experienced firearms instructors.

Things to consider:

Psychological Aspects: Under severe stress, the normal mental processes become extremely difficult and the mind resorts to its most basic processes.

The following are examples of psychological effects you may experience during a combat situation or any other high stress situation:

1. Tunnel vision: Under extreme stress your attention will primarily be focused on the greatest threat and, as a result, you will have a temporary loss of peripheral vision.

2. Auditory Exclusion: As with tunnel vision, you will focus on the greatest threat and will have the inability to hear for a period of time. For instance, you will probably not hear anyone shouting at you.

3. Electro Dermal Stimulation: A reaction of the skin that makes the hair stand up on the arms and the back of neck.

4. Time/Space Compression: There will be a slow down in the perceived passage of time and a shift in perceived spatial relationship in times of high stress. This is caused by the inability to judge speed and distance and accurately balance the two. Also, you may experience a slowing down of time. In other words, everybody will seem to move in slow motion.

5. Mental Track: In most high stress situations, to include life and death situations, a person’s ability to keep track of the details of the situation taking place around him becomes nearly impossible. In most police shootings, a police officer being debriefed after an engagement does not usually remember how many rounds that he fired. This can happen even in training. Therefore, as a shooter, you must learn to beware of the number of rounds you fired so the weapon does not run completely dry in the middle of a firefight. This concept of awareness not only applies to a shooting situation, but also applies to hand-to-hand combat and edged weapons.

Physiological Aspects: Regardless of how much training an individual has certain studies, along with the SOP 9 study; show that during a combat situation, one or more physical changes take place in an individual’s body. That is why proper training is necessary to help minimize certain aspects.

The following are examples of physiological effects you may experience during a combat situation or any other high stress situation:

1. Pulse and Breathing: In any excitable situation, pulse and breathing will always be affected. Your heart rate increases and your breathing becomes rapid and shallow.

2. Adrenaline: This is nothing more than a hormone that stimulates involuntary nerve action. The amount of stress you are placed under will depend on the amount of adrenaline released into the system. When adrenaline is released into the body, it stimulates the muscles. This causes them to tighten. Depending on the individual and the situation, this is more than adequate to affect an individual’s shooting position or fighting position.

3. Coordination and Reflexes: Under any type of stress hand and eye coordination degrade severely, especially the coordination of the hand and fingers.

The Chemical Cocktail

The reactions just discussed are the result of the body’s survival response to a potentially lethal situation. When suddenly placed in a life-threatening situation, the body will dump the below listed chemicals into the bloodstream and mix with sodium. This “chemical cocktail” creates an imbalance characterized by general muscle tightening and loss of fine motor skills. This chemical cocktail includes:

1. Epinephrine: An adrenal hormone that stimulates automatic nerve action (fight).

2. Nor – Epinephrine: A hormone that is formed naturally in the body’s nerve endings during times of fear (flight).

3. Cortazol: A crystalline hormone released to the body’s nerve endings during times of fear (fight).

The body’s reaction: The body’s response to this imbalance by releasing potassium to counteract the effects of the sodium. However, this process takes time and slows our ability to react. As a result, we must always seek to minimize the impact that this chemical cocktail has on us in order to improve our reaction times. We can do this by training to maintain the proper “mindset”.

Mindset is a term used to describe an individual’s state of mental readiness to act or react to a stimulus in our environment that ensures survival. This proper combat mindset is neither learned nor can it be taught, it must be developed from within. The tools you need for proper combat mindset can only be exposed in a schoolhouse environment to help you to develop yourself.

The Breakdown of the Mind:

Conscious Mind: The conscious mind is the thinking part of the mind. It takes seconds to make decisions when using this part of the brain. In any type of combat situation the conscious mind’s decision making process is too slow to keep you alive. The conscious mind is a hindrance causing you to have to react to every situation instead of acting.

Sub-Conscious Mind: Reacts to situations. This part of the mind works in quarter seconds, which is much faster than the conscious mind. It has to be trained in order for it to work properly.

When training, the skills being learned need not only to be simple, but sound and effective. The sub-conscious mind is only developed through proper repetition (muscle memory) in training.

You must strive for perfection each and every repetition.

If you train poorly, or if the training is too complicated or too detailed, when the sub-conscious mind takes over it will not be able to respond properly to the situation. What occurs is the conscious mind identifies the situation, realizes it cannot handle it, and then turns it over to the sub-conscious mind to react. That is why we say that in any type of combat situation a person must rely on his training in order to survive.

The Optimum Combat Mindset:

Optimum combat mindset is the state of mind where you have prepared yourself mentally (both consciously and sub consciously), physically, emotionally, tactically, and technically to endure the rigors of combat for prolonged periods of time and under extremely adverse conditions, and still remain effective.

Developing a Combat Mindset:

Like the body the mind needs to be conditioned to respond or function properly in combat. When faced with a combat situation you want your mind to be free of distractions so that all of your focus is on the mission at hand – such as getting out of a situation and if it’s at the killing zone, killing the enemy and surviving the encounter). You need to be mentally prepared for death and injury and you need to go into the fight prepared for the worst. For instance, if you find yourself in a knife fight you should expect to get cut or if you go into a shooting you should expect to get shot.

Remember, response time is a critical factor in surviving a violent confrontation in a CQB environment. Do not waste time analyzing and second-guessing in an attempt to make the best possible decision. The time that is saved in the thought process will in turn save your life as you fight to end the fight.

One of the most Important things to remember is do not forget the One plus rule – if you get into a fight hand to hand think he could have a knife ,if he has a knife he could have another one or a gun

All the time keep alert and one step ahead!

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Kapap-Krav Panim El Panim The next step in Israeli martial arts

Krav Panim El Panim por Albert Timen

2008-01-16T21:46:00.000-06:00

Construyendo un guerrero mejor, Kapap, la mente es el arma.

Cuando se entrena un arte marcial con un programa orientado a la defensa personal, es necesario trabajar 3 aspectos distintos:

La fortaleza mental
El carácter
La habilidad física

Todo ello ayuda a crear un guerrero bien entrenado, disciplinado, honorable y con gran motivación. este tipo de guerreros han permitido el desarrollo del Kapap, protegen a la sociedad y son un ejemplo para ésta.

El Kapap no es un sistema marcial basado en el deporte, es un sistema de lucha para la guerra y para resolver conflictos reales que basa su estudio en el uso de la pistola, el rifle y la bayoneta, el cuchillo y cualquier objeto utilizado como arma improvisada o de oportunidad.

El entrenamiento concluye con un estudio muy estricto del combate sin armas (cuerpo a cuerpo). Un entrenamiento que además puede ampliarse con el de otras culturas guerreras, entre las que se incluyen los espartanos, los zulúes y los apaches. El objetivo es crear guerreros honorables, ganadores y mejores civiles.

El Kapap no sólo enseña las habilidades necesarias para ganar sino también la mentalidad para encontrar el camino correcto.

El primer bloque de entrenamiento de Kapap otorga al practicante la conciencia de pertenecer a este sistema, proporcionándole toda la información necesaria para afrontar con éxito la aventura
de sobrevivir en la dura realidad de hoy. Una vez finalizado, ha de construir y mejorar su propio conocimiento. El Kapap permite seguir entrenando y aprendiendo a cualquier edad hasta alcanzar el cuarto nivel de entrenamiento. Todos sus practicantes pueden dedicar toda su carrera a adquirir nuavas y avanzadas habilidades, así como a aprender a mejorar y controlarlas.

Los instructores de Kapap no ostentan ningún rango o cinturón alguno. Simplemente se espera de ellos que muestren su liderazgo y habilidades a través de su ejemplo y conducta personal. Cada instructor de Kapap gana un "cinturón" enseñando y transmitiendo sus conocimientos y experiencia, no sólo a sus alumnos sino también a sus compañeros. Un cinturón no hace al instructor, sino su capacidad de búsqueda constante para ser mejor.

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2008-01-16T21:40:00.001-06:00

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Verguenza Cínica

2008-01-16T20:36:00.000-06:00

Después de realizar un análisis sobre diferentes balaceras perpetradas en escuelas de Estados Unidos, investigadores del Instituto Shyness de la Universidad de Indiana afirman que los jóvenes que las llevan a cabo pueden sufrir de verguenza cínica, una forma extrema que afecta más a los varones y que puede conducir a un comportamiento violento.

Los psicólogos Bernardo Carducci y Kristin Terry Nethery estudiaron ocho casos individuales de matanzas en escuelas entre 1995 y 2004.

El análisis de los casos fue de acuerdo con los indicadores personales y sociales de verguenza cínica, tales como: falta de empatía, poca tolerancia a la frustración, explosiones de enojo, rechazo social de sus compañeros, malas relaciones familiares y acceso a armas.

Los resultados indican que los individuos involucrados en siete de balaceras de la última década, presentaban claramente, características de verguenza cínica.

2006-08-11T08:07:00.000-05:00

Realfighting Newsletter #75 – May 10, 2006

One of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in a long time is the one I’ve reprinted below from policeone.com. It addresses many of the misconceptions about a knife attack, specifically the “Tueller Drill.” I’m not certain who the author is, but you can find more articles like these at www.forcescience.org.

Edged Weapon Defense: Is or was the 21-foot Rule Valid?

For more than 20 years now, a concept called the 21-Foot Rule has been a core component in training officers to defend themselves against edged weapons. Originating from research by Salt Lake City trainer Dennis Tueller "rule" states that in the time it takes the average officer to recognize a threat, draw his sidearm and fire 2 rounds at center mass, an average subject charging at the officer with a knife or other cutting or stabbing weapon can cover a distance of 21 feet.

The implication, therefore, is that when dealing with an edged-weapon wielder at anything less than 21 feet an officer had better have his gun out and ready to shoot before the offender starts rushing him or else he risks being set upon and injured or killed before he can draw his sidearm and effectively defeat the attack.

Recently a Force Science News member, a deputy sheriff from Texas, suggested that it's time for a fresh look at the underlying principles of edged-weapon defense, to see if they are "upheld by fresh research." He observed that "the knife culture is growing, not shrinking," with many people, including the homeless, "carrying significant blades on the street." He noted that compared to scientific findings, "anecdotal evidence is not good enough when an officer is in court defending against a wrongful death claim because he felt he had to shoot some[body] with a knife at 0-dark:30 a.m."As a prelude to more extensive studies of edged-weapon-related issues, the Force Science Research Center at Minnesota State University-Mankato has responded by reexamining the 21-Foot Rule, arguably the most widely taught and commonly remembered element of edged-weapon defense.

After testing the Rule against FSRC''s landmark findings on action-reaction times and conferring with selected members of its National and Technical Advisory Boards, the Center has reached these conclusions, according to Executive Director Dr. Bill Lewinski:
1. Because of a prevalent misinterpretation, the 21-Foot Rule has been dangerously corrupted.
2. When properly understood, the 21-Foot Rule is still valid in certain limited circumstances.
3. For many officers and situations, a 21-foot reactionary gap is not sufficient.
4. The weapon that officers often think they can depend on to defeat knife attacks can't be relied upon to protect them in many cases.
5. Training in edged-weapon defense should by no means be abandoned.

In this installment of our 2-part series, we'll examine the first two points.

1. MISINTERPRETATION
"Unfortunately, some officers and apparently some trainers as well have ''streamlined'' the 21-Foot Rule in a way that gravely distorts its meaning and exposes them to highly undesirable legal consequences," Lewinski says. Namely, they have come to believe that the Rule means that a subject brandishing an edged weapon when positioned at any distance less than 21 feet from an officer can justifiably be shot.For example, an article on the 21-Foot Rule in a highly respected LE magazine states in its opening sentence that "a suspect armed with an edged weapon and within twenty-one feet of a police officer presents a deadly threat." The "common knowledge" that "deadly force against him is justified" has long been "accepted in police and court circles," the article continues.Statements like that, Lewinski says, "have led officers to believe that no matter what position they're in, even with their gun on target and their finger on the trigger, they are in extreme danger at 21 feet. They believe they don't have a chance of surviving unless they preempt the suspect by shooting.
However widespread that contaminated interpretation may be, it is NOT accurate. A suspect with a knife within 21 feet of an officer is POTENTIALLY a deadly threat. He does warrant getting your gun out and ready. But he cannot be considered an actual threat justifying deadly force until he takes the first overt action in furtherance of intention--like starting to rush or lunge toward the officer with intent to do harm. Even then there may be factors besides distance that influence a force decision. So long as a subject is stationary or moving around but not advancing or giving any indication he's about to charge, it clearly is not legally justified to use lethal force against him. Officers who do shoot in those circumstances may find themselves subject to disciplinary action, civil suits or even criminal charges.
Lewinski believes the misconception of the 21-Foot Rule has become so common that some academies and in-service training programs now are reluctant to include the Rule as part of their edged-weapon defense instruction for fear of non-righteous shootings resulting. When you talk about the 21-Foot Rule, you have to understand what it really means when fully articulated correctly in order to judge its value as a law enforcement concept," Lewinski says. "And it does not mean ''less than 21 feet automatically equals shoot.

2. VALIDITY
In real-world encounters, many variables affect time, which is the key component of the 21-Foot Rule. What is the training skill and stress level of the officer? How fast and agile is he? How alert is he to preliminary cues to aggressive movement? How agile and fast is the suspect? Is he drunk and stumbling, or a young guy in a ninja outfit ready to rock and roll? How adept is the officer at drawing his holstered weapon? What kind of holster does he have? What’s the terrain? If it's outdoors, is the ground bumpy or pocked with holes? Is the suspect running on concrete, or on grass, or through snow and across ice? Is the officer uphill and the suspect downhill, or vice versa? If it's indoors, is the officer at the foot of stairs and the suspect above him, or vice versa? Are there obstacles between them? And so on.
These factors and others can impact the validity of the 21-Foot Rule because they affect an attacking suspect’s speed in reaching the officer, and the officer’s speed in reacting to the threatening charge.The 21-Foot Rule was formulated by timing subjects beginning their headlong run from a dead stop on a flat surface offering good traction and officers standing stationary on the same plane, sidearm holstered and snapped in. The FSRC has extensively measured action and reaction times under these same conditions. Among other things, the Center has documented the time it takes officers to make 20 different actions that are common in deadly force encounters.

Here are some of the relevant findings that the FSRC applied in reevaluating the 21-Foot Rule:

- Once he perceives a signal to do so, the AVERAGE officer requires 1.5 seconds to draw from a snapped Level II holster and fire one unsighted round at center mass. Add 1/4 of a second for firing a second round, and another 1/10 of a second for obtaining a flash sight picture for the average officer.

- The fastest officer tested required 1.31 seconds to draw from a Level II holster and get off his first unsighted round. The slowest officer tested required 2.25 seconds.

- For the average officer to draw and fire an unsighted round from a snapped Level III holster, which is becoming increasingly popular in LE because of its extra security features, takes 1.7 seconds.

- Meanwhile, the AVERAGE suspect with an edged weapon raised in the traditional "ice-pick" position can go from a dead stop to level, unobstructed surface offering good traction in 1.5-1.7 seconds.

- The "fastest, most skillful, most powerful" subject FSRC tested "easily" covered that distance in 1.27 seconds. Intense rage, high agitation and/or the influence of stimulants may even shorten that time, Lewinski observes.- Even the slowest subject "lumbered" through this distance in just 2.5 seconds.

Bottom line: Within a 21-foot perimeter, most officers dealing with most edged-weapon suspects are at a decided - perhaps fatal - disadvantage if the suspect launches a sudden charge intent on harming them. "Certainly it is not safe to have your gun in your holster at this distance," Lewinski says, and firing in hopes of stopping an activated attack within this range may well be justified.
But many unpredictable variables that are inevitable in the field prevent a precise, all-encompassing truism from being fashioned from controlled "laboratory" research."If you shoot an edged-weapon offender before he is actually on you or at least within reaching distance, you need to anticipate being challenged on your decision by people both in and out of law enforcement who do not understand the sobering facts of action and reaction times," says FSRC National Advisory Board member Bill Everett, an attorney, use-of-force trainer and former cop. "Someone is bound to say, ''Hey, this guy was 10 feet away when he dropped and died. Why did you have to shoot him when he was so far away from you?''
"Be able to articulate why you felt yourself or other innocent party to be in imminent or immediate life-threatening jeopardy and why the threat would have been substantially accentuated if you had delayed, Everett advises. You need to specifically mention the first motion that indicated the subject was about to attack and was beyond your ability to influence verbally.
And remember: No single rule can arbitrarily be used to determine when a particular level of force is lawful. The 21-Foot Rule has value as a rough guideline, illustrating the reactionary curve, but it is by no means an absolute.The Supreme Court’s landmark use-of-force decision, in Graham v. Connor, established a ''reasonableness standard," Everett reminds. You’ll be judged ultimately according to what a reasonable officer would have done. All of the facts and circumstances that make up the dynamics between you and the subject will be evaluated."Of course, some important facts may be subtle and now widely known or understood. That's where FSRC''s unique findings on lethal-force dynamics fit in. Explains Lewinski: "The FSRC''s research will add to your ability to articulate and explain the facts and circumstances and how they influenced your decision to use force."

3. MORE DISTANCE
In reality, the 21-Foot Rule--by itself--may not provide officers with an adequate margin of protection, says Dr. Bill Lewinski, FSRC's executive director. "It's easily possible for suspects in some circumstances to launch a successful fatal attack from a distance greater than 21 feet.

Among other police instructors, John Delgado, retired training officer for the Miami-Dade (FL) PD, has extended the 21-Foot Rule to 30 feet. "Twenty-one feet doesn't really give many officers time to get their gun out and fire accurately," he says. Higher-security holsters complicate the situation, for one thing. Some manufacturers recommend 3,000 pulls to develop proficiency with a holster. Most cops don't do that, so it takes them longer to get their gun out than what's ideal.

Also shooting proficiency tends to deteriorate under stress. Their initial rounds may not even hit. Beyond that, there's the well-established fact that a suspect often can keep going from momentum, adrenalin, chemicals and sheer determination, even after being shot. Experience informs us that people who are shot with a handgun do not fall down instantly nor does the energy of a handgun round stop their forward movement, states Chris Lawrence, team leader of DT training at the Ontario (Canada) Police College and an FSRC Technical Advisory Board member.

Says Lewinski: "Certain arterial or spinal hits may drop an attacker instantly. But otherwise a wounded but committed suspect may have the capacity to continue on to the officer's location and complete his deadly intentions." That's one reason why tactical distractions, which we'll discuss in a moment, should play an important role in defeating an edged-weapon attack, even when you are able to shoot to defend yourself.

When working with bare-minimum margins, any delay in an officer responding to a deadly threat can equate to injury or death, reinforces attorney and use-of-force trainer Bill Everett, an FSRC National Advisory Board member. So the officer must key his or her reaction to the first overt act indicating that a lethal attack is coming.
More distance and time give the officer not only more tactical options but also more opportunity to confirm the attacker's lethal intention before selecting a deadly force response.

4. MISPLACED CONFIDENCE
Relying on OC or a Taser for defeating a charging suspect is probably a serious mistake. Gary Klugiewicz, a leading edged-weapon instructor and a member of FSRC's National Advisory Board, points out that firing out Taser barbs may be an effective option in dealing with a threatening but STATIONARY subject. But depending on this force choice to stop a charging suspect could be disastrous.

With fast, on-rushing movement, there's a real chance of not hitting the subject effectively and of not having sufficient time" for the electrical charge--or for a blast of OC--to take effect before he is on you, Klugiewicz says.

Lewinski agrees, adding: A rapid charge at an officer is a common characteristic of someone high on chemicals or severely emotionally disturbed. More research is needed, but it appears that when a Taser isn't effective it is most often with these types of suspects.

Smug remarks about offenders foolishly "bringing a knife to a gunfight" betray dangerous thinking about the ultimate force option, too. Some officers are cockily confident they'll defeat any sharp-edged threat because they carry a superior weapon: their service sidearm. This belief may be subtly reinforced by fixating on distances of 21 or 30 feet, as if this is the typical reaction space you'll have in an edged-weapon encounter.

The truth is that where edged-weapon attacks are concerned, close-up confrontations are actually the norm," points out Sgt. Craig Stapp, a firearms trainer with the Tempe (AZ) P.D. and a member of FSRC's Technical Advisory Board. A suspect who knows how to effectively deploy a knife can be extremely dangerous in these circumstances. Even those who are not highly trained can be deadly, given the close proximity of the contact, the injury knives are capable of, and the time it takes officers to process and react to an assault.

At close distances, standing still and drawing are usually not the best tactics to employ and may not even be possible. At a distance of 10 feet, a subject is less than half a second away from making the first cut on an officer, Lewinski's research shows. Therefore, rather than relying on a holstered gun, officers must be trained in hands-on techniques to deflect or delay the use of the knife, to control it and/or to remove it from the attacker's grasp, or to buy time to get their gun out. These methods have to be simple enough to be learned by the average officer.

Stapp strongly believes that training in edged-weapon defense should prepare an officer to deal psychologically with getting cut or stabbed, a realistic probability with lag time, close encounters and desperate control attempts. Officers need to be trained to continue to fight, Stapp says. They will not have time to stop and assess how severe the wound is. You don't want them in the mind-set, 'I've been cut, I'm going to die.' They must remain focused on stopping the attack, taking out the guy who is the threat to them."

Checking yourself over for injury after the offender is subdued is important, too, Klugiewicz says. "Some survivors of edged-weapon attacks report that they were not aware of being cut or stabbed when the injury occurred. They thought they had just been punched and didn't realize what really happened until later."

5. TRAINING
Assuming it is presented accurately and in context with the many variables that shape knife encounters, the 21-Foot Rule can be a valuable training aid, Lewinski says. As a role-playing exercise, it provides a dramatic and memorable demonstration of how fast an offender can close distance, and it can motivate officers to improve their performance skills. Experiment with it and you may conclude, like Delgado, that 21 feet is not enough of a safety margin for your troops.

You might also use 21-Foot Rule exercises to test tactical methods for imposing lag time on offenders in order to buy more reaction time for officers. These could range from using or creating obstacles (standing behind a tree or shoving a chair between you and the offender) to moving yourself strategically. You're probably familiar with the Tactical L, for example, in which an officer moves laterally to a charging offender's line of attack. With the right timing, this surprises and slows the attacker as he processes the movement and scrambles to redirect his assault, and gives the officer opportunity to draw and get on target.

Lewinski favors a variation called the Tactical J. Here, instead of moving 90 degrees off line, the officer moves obliquely forward at a 45-degree angle to the oncoming offender. This tends to be more confusing to the suspect and requires more of a radical change on his part to come after you, Lewinski says. But the timing has to be such that the suspect is fully committed to his charge and can't readily adjust to what you've done. That takes lots of practice with a wide variety of training partners.

If nothing else, training with the 21-Foot Rule will help officers better estimate just how far 21 feet is. Without a good deal of practice, most can't accurately gauge that distance, Lewinski says, and thus tend to sabotage appropriate defensive reactions.
Don't forget, though, that most edged-weapon attacks are up close and personal.

That means training must include effective empty-hand-control techniques, close quarters shooting drills and weapon retention. We need to develop the ability to draw our sidearm, get on target and GET HITS extremely fast, while moving as a diversionary measure if possible, says Stapp. Close-range shooting--under 10 feet--will most effectively be accomplished when an officer has developed the ability to get on target 'by feel,' without using his sights.

Lewinski also recommends drills to imprint rapid reholstering techniques. Reholstering may become necessary if there's a sudden change in threat level--say the offender throws his weapon down and is no longer presenting an imminent threat justifying deadly force--and the officer needs both hands free to deal with him.

There's little doubt that the knife culture and related attacks on officers are dangerously flourishing. Edged-weapon assaults are a staple of the news reports of police incidents from across the U.S. and Canada on the website of FSRC's strategic partner, PoliceOne.com. Recently an officer in New York City was slashed in the face during a fight that broke out. On a man-with-a-gun call, in Ohio, a state trooper fatally shot a berserk motorist who charged him with a hatchet. And another offender, who called 911 in Pennsylvania to report he was having a heart attack, ended up shot 13 times and killed after commands and OC failed to stop him from lunging at a trooper with a chain saw. In Calgary (Canada) a blood-soaked man waved a bloody butcher knife over his head and charged at constables who responded to a domestic dispute. A suspected rapist attacked a Chicago detective with a screwdriver after luring him into an interrogation room by asking for a cigarette. In the reception area of a California prison, an inmate serving time for trying to kill a cop stabbed a correctional officer to death with a shank. In Idaho, an out-of-control teenager punched holes in the walls of his house with a 15-inch bayonet, then turned on a responding officer with the blade and sliced his uniform before the cop shot him.

Given today's environment, rather than draw back on edged-weapon training, officers and agencies should be expanding it, Lewinski declares. Edged-weapon attacks are serious and should be taken seriously by trainers, officers and administrators alike. Finding out what works best in the way of realistic tactical defenses and then training those tactics as broadly as possible has never been more needed.

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2006-08-11T07:54:00.000-05:00

Cómo comenzó todo

2006-08-11T07:37:00.000-05:00

Antes, yo soñaba con poder pelear como Steven Seagal o Jean Claude Van Damme, como cualquier adolescente, creía que todo radicaba en un secreto mágico, en el beso del dragón.

Con el tiempo uno va adquiriendo nuevas responsabilidades, aquellos sueños dejan de estar presentes, pero permanecen latentes.

Aquella mañana de diciembre todo iba a cambiar, hay eventos que te recuerdan que eres una diminuta pieza en este mundo y que la vida no es color de rosa, eventos que te marcan de por vida.

Ese día recibía la noticia de que habían secuestrado a una de mis primas.

No recuerdo bien que sentí en ese preciso momento, a lo mejor debía no sentir y seguir adelante para apoyar a mi familia.

Fue una semana de mucha angustia, de mucha tenacidad mental y sentimental para no derrumbarme aún cuando la recuperamos completamente sana, lo más sano que uno puede estar después de una experiencia de ese tipo.

Logré controlarme y no llorar enfrente de mi familia, creo que fui el único que no lo hizo, al menos no en público.

Uno puede pensar acerca de una enorme variedad de sentimientos que pudieron haber encontrado albergue en mi corazón, pero hubo uno que ha persistido hasta la fecha y es el de impotencia.

Este me ha seguido y hasta cierto punto, me ha atormentado. Juré no volver a sentirlo, que haría algo al respecto, que aprendería esas artes mágicas que soñé en mi juventud para protegerme a mi y a mi familia.

Era una buena idea, pero basada en todas las razones equivocadas, empezando por los preceptos de defensa personal.

En mi búsqueda, basada en la forma más empírica, ensayo y error, no encontraba nada que me llenara, nada que me diera las respuestas a las incógnitas que rodaban por mi mente.

Después de tres costillas luxadas y un esternón fisurado de un primo que se unió a mi búsqueda y un codo con tendinitis propio, encontré el Krav Maga.

El Krav Maga, técnica israelí de combate que significa lucha cuerpo a cuerpo, fue el primer indicio de que podía encontrar mi respuesta, pero que estaba muy lejos de ser el beso del dragón.

Entre más entrenaba y mi conocimiento crecía, más me daba cuenta de que no hay fórmulas mágicas, que no hay nada escrito en la defensa personal y que todo es basado en sentido común. Que uno no puede tener el control del cómo o el por qué de las cosas, pero si puede uno tratar de evitar las situaciones adversas y evaluarlas cuando uno está inmerso en una de ellas para salir lo mejor librado de ella. El instinto más básico es el más importante, supervivencia.

Como pasa, más frecuente de lo que uno quisiera, alguien tomó este concepto y lo prostituyó, esta persona falta de ética y sin respeto alguno por sus antepasados, hizo del Krav Maga, un concepto nuevo de aerobics en Beverly Hills.

Acabó con un concepto, convirtiéndolo en una mala técnica.

Curiosamente, esta situación hizo que prosiguiera con mi búsqueda por algo mejor, esto me llevó ante muchos charlatanes, ante muchos callejones sin salida.

A lo largo de este camino, me encontré con el Kapap, técnica ensañada a las fuerzas especiales del ejército israelí, me encontré con el Mayor Avi Nardia y con Albert Timen (no pongo su cargo, por temor a faltarle al respeto). Ambos miembros de la élite militar de Israel.

Tuve la fortuna de hospedarlos en mi casa y asistir al primer seminario de Kapap impartido en América Latina.

Esta experiencia única me enseñó más cosas de las que alguna vez esperé aprender.

No omito decir lo extenuante que fue el seminario tanto física como mentalmente, pero el aprendizaje va más allá. Es increíble cuanto se puede aprender de la vida con gente que ha luchado por ella y la ha defendido a toda costa por más de dos décadas.

El Kapap es un proceso de aprendizaje continuo, no por nada el lema es “Siempre un estudiante, algunas veces profesor”, es una manera de ver la vida. Es defensa personal en muchos planos diferentes de la vida.

A partir de que decidí aprender este nuevo concepto de vida, el sentimiento de vacío e impotencia que habita en mi corazón y en mi mente ha menguado considerablemente. He encontrado que no existe el beso del dragón, que la vida es el recurso más importante que tenemos y como tal debemos valuarla y preservarla, la calidad siempre debe ser prioridad sobre la cantidad.

He aprendido mucho y aunque ahora se que nunca voy a poder evitar eventos tan desagradables en mi vida o en la de cualquier otro, también se el riesgo se puede minimizar.

Mi camino de aprendizaje apenas comienza, pero se que al final podré obtener la paz mental que anhelo a través de la aceptación, tolerancia y evaluación de riesgos, también se que de necesitarlo, podré usar mi cuerpo para defender aquello que valoro y que valga la pena defender.

A great letter to read on

2006-05-23T23:08:00.000-05:00

A GREAT LETTER TO READ AND SEND ON

Charlotte Kates is the pro-terrorist law student at Rutgers Univ. who organized the pro-Palestinian conference and defends suicide bombers... THIS ONE IS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT, AND WORTH READING AND SENDING ON.

The following letter was written to the President of Rutgers State University by an Israeli citizen after reading Kates' published comments on the Israeli/Palestinian situation !!

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Dear Ms. Kates, I think you are a remarkable woman. You are neither an Arab nor a Jew, you do not study the Middle East, or any associated subject and, correct me if I am wr ong, you have never visited this region. Therefore I am somewhat astounded at your expertise and your comments on Israel being an "Apartheid" state.
I have lived in Israel for many years and I would be delighted to take you on a little virtual tour of our country.
Let me first give you a couple of minor points. Israel occupies 0.1% of the landmass of the Middle East and it is the only Jewish state, not only in this region, surrounded as we are by 22 Arab states, but in the world. Let us begin your virtual tour!!
You have already been through immigration at Tel Aviv Airport with your boyfriend, whom we shall call Ken. You will have filled out a visitors form. This form will not ask you, as it will in many of the countries that surround us, what is your religion, and it will certainly not ask you, as they do in Saudi Arabia, for a "certificate of religion".
The day is Sunday! You will want to attend a church service. No problem in the Apartheid State of Israel. We tolerate and freely allow worship for all religions. This is more than can be said for nearly all of the surrounding 22 Arab nations. In fact many of them would not even have a single church, let alone a synagogue.
After a lovely service you and Ken would head for a leisurely lunch, maybe at one of the lovely beachfront restaurants in Tel Aviv.
You would most likely have returned to your hotel and put on a very casual outfit, as fitting the very hot Israeli summers.
This could be a pair of shorts and a tight-fitting skimpy t-shirt. No problem in the Apartheid state of Israel.
In Israel we allow freedom of dress, especially for women, who are not made to wear bulky long robes, a veil to cover their face, and, wouldn't it be a pity if you had to cover that lovely coiffed hairdo, as you would probably have to in most of the surrounding 22 Arab states .
During lunch Ken could gaze lovingly into your heavily painted eyes, complete with a good application of black mascara. He would be free to lean across and kiss your lips, finely painted with lip liner, 2 shades of burgundy lipstick and gloss.
People would probably think you were in love, especially as Ken has proudly displayed a good wine on the table.
Public displays of affection and consuming alcohol in the Apartheid state of Israel is nothing unusual and its not even scorned upon.
That's more than can be said for most of the surrounding 22 Arab states, where your glossy lipswould be considered whorish and alcohol is forbidden.
But Ken, being a little flirtatious, pinched one of the young waitresses while you went to reapply your lipstick.
It was harmless and, luckily for the young girl in the Apartheid State of Israel, her father and 6 brothers will not take her to the family pool in the evening and drown her, as they would in some of the surrounding 22 Arab states.
After lunch you and Ken drive around. You are even allowed to drive. It is not forbidden in Israel. You stumble across a kindergarten. The children are running around and enjoying themselves.
They are not made to sit for hours reciting by rote pages from religious books.
Their games are in the sand pit or on the swings. They are not infested with hate or told the only honor to their lives will be in death.
In the Apartheid state of Israel we rejoice in life and living. We do not promote murder and violence by brainwashing our children with hatred, as they do in many of the surrounding 22 Arab states.
By the end of the day you and Ken come across a political rally. Many thousands have turned up.
In the Apartheid State of Israel all the citizens, men, women, Jew, Arab and Christian are free to vote. We are allowed to openly criticize the government and our media, including the T. V. and newspapers offer, without prejudice, a choice of opinions.
Every person has the right to openly agree with or condemn the government.
This can certainly not be said for most of the surrounding 22 Arab states, ruled as they are by oppressive dictators, where any dissent is met with dire consequences.
Of course, most of the 22 surrounding Arab countries can't offer you a good old-fashioned homicide bombing as a tourist attraction.
This can only happen in the apartheid state of Israel, surrounded as we are, by so many hostile countries determined, as you are, to wipe us off the face of the earth.
Where else can you get on a crowded bus, often packed with children and come face to face with some poor, plighted Palestinian ghoul who thinks life isn't very jolly, having been fed and brainwashed by evil organizations like Hamas, to believe that the only way forward is to murder innocent people? This dehumanized creature will have been fed on a 24/7 diet of lies and hate incitement, he will have been coaxed with the reward of 72 vestal virgins waiting for him in Paradise.
His demonic mother will be dancing in the street waving her $10,000 check.
While Israelis are scraping their dead children off the sidewalks, the Palestinians will be lighting fireworks and dancing in the street, to honor this mass murderer as a hero, often to their children who are being systematically nurtured to be the next generation of mass murderers.
The Apartheid state of Israel?
Forgive me Ms. Kates but you seem somewhat confused as to the meaning of the word. It usually refers to segregation.
It's funny isn't it that a large section of the Jews who live in this apartheid state had to flee for their lives from nearly all of the surrounding 22 Arab states.
These countries not only have no tolerance for Jews, they refer to anyone who is not a Moslem as an Infidel and an enemy.
I find it somewhat curious that you find nothing "apartheid" about these countries.
Maybe you should do a project on how many churches there are in Saudi Arabia. Let me help you - there are none. It would not be tolerated.
I am proud to live in this Apartheid State.
In 55 years we have become one of the most technologically advanced nations on this planet, with many innovations that h ave made Israel a true leader in many fields.
It is tragic that we have to live in a region that feels threatened by our achievements.
Israel is not an apartheid state and it is appalling that a so-called intelligent and thinking person like you can go around finding feeble excuses for mass murder.
Ms. Kates there is no justification, in any society, for getting on a crowded bus, often packed with children, detonating an explosive belt, often packed with nails and shrapnel, and destroying innocent lives.
This is not a freedom fighter, or a person seeking justice, but a chronically and irreversibly evil human being.
I can only assume that one day in the near future Ms. Kates, you will chip off that heavy layer of make up and discover your conscience.

Kapap-Mexico

2006-04-18T23:53:00.002-05:00

Kapap = Krav Panim el Panim (Lucha cara a cara).

Kapap-Mexico es la representación de Kapap Academy en Latinoamerica.

A traves del correcto entrenamiento se pueden adquirir los conocimientos que te ayudaran a tener las herramientas para poder evaluar y salir lo mejor librado de una situacion adversa.

El Kapap es el arte marcial israeli instruida a las fuerzas especiales del ejercito de Israel.

Kapap es un concepto que no puede ser enmarcado o encuadrado en técnicas o katas.

El Kapap para civiles es una tecnica de defensa personal, por lo cual no puede ser ensuciada por cinturones o grados, no es un objeto que pueda ser reclamado como propiedad exclusiva de una persona, pertenece al pueblo de Israel y son ellos quienes deciden compartirlo con el resto del mundo. Todo esto conservando su esencia y naturaleza.

El Kapap puede ser aprendido por casi cualquier persona, lo más importante es la actitud, la arrogancia y el ego no permiten que este concepto sea asimilado.

Por su naturaleza agresiva y contundente se recomienda que se inicie no antes de los 15 años de edad.

NO se requieren habilidades especiales o físicos privilegiados, se requiere una apertura del espiritu para poder absorber los conocimientos y adaptarlos a las condiciones fisicas individuales, aprovechando las cualidades y minimizando los defectos.

Este arte marcial no se enseña en cada esquina o gimnasio, solamente gente autorizada por personal avalado por el ejercito de Israel con la expresa certificacion escrita.

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