Jim Wagner brought KAPAP to the world... gave it a push anyway I was doing some research today in my office for a book I am working on, specifically dealing with Krav Maga, and when I Googled the words Krav Maga, which translates contact combat on the Internet I noticed that Wikipedia uses an article that I, and Major Avi Nardia, wrote for Black Belt magazine in the November 2002 issue. Go down to References Number 5 and youll find the link. Most Krav Maga and KAPAP people dont know the full history of their own arts. Before 2002 Americans only knew about Darren Levines brand of Krav Maga (Krav Maga Worldwide). The martial arts community thought that was the one and only Israeli martial art system, that is until we wrote the following article, and that created a firestorm in the martial arts world. We let the world know that there were other Krav Maga systems, different than Levines, along with KAPAP, HISARDUT, and LOTOAR. I even gave a lot of credit to Darren Levine in making Krav Maga popular in the United States, but he and his people jumped all over me immediately after this article at first saying there was no such thing as KAPAP, and then later admitted that there was such a system, but it was only for stick fighting. Then there were years of legal actions taken by all kinds of Krav Maga organization against each other, and it was ugly, but today finally everyone is accepting each others right to exist. So, how did this all start? In 2001 I had been invited to Israel to train the top Israeli police and military Combatives and Defensive Tactics instructors. They wanted me there because they did not feel that any Krav Maga system, or other Israeli systems, were adequate for dealing with real knife attacks, and they wanted me to teach my Reality-Based Personal Protection Knife Survival course to them (although I had it under a different name at the time), which they thought was superior. I taught them, they loved it, and that is how I started my relationship with the Israeli police, Israeli military, and other top instructors there: Chaim Peer, Moni Aizik, Amnon Maor, and Dennis Hanover. In 2003 I was invited back to teach at the famous Wingate Institute Bahad 8 were Krav Maga was born in 1971. In 2003 I convinced Avi Nardia to go to the United States and teach KAPAP (face-to-face combat). I told him that Krav Maga was starting to get popular in the United States, and KAPAP was the Israeli military system before Krav Maga. At first he was reluctant, and was shocked that Krav Maga was popular, because in his words, it was a basic system, but then a couple months later he agreed, and the rest is history. Im glad to know that I had my part in both the Krav Maga and KAPAP history. Be A Hard Target. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 23:50:00 +0000
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