Martial Arts Techniques DEADLY MISTAKES IN GUN DISARMING!
Gun disarming is one of the most important skills you want to obtain when training in a martial art that claims to be about self-defense. Now that reality based martial arts have become extremely popular, many so called reality based instructors have started to show knife/gun disarming techniques without realizing that they contain deadly mistakes that can get their students killed!
I asked my friend and teacher Avi Nardia to talk about the subject of gun disarming. Avi Nardia is a former intelligence team member and CQB instructor of the Yamam, Israel's premier counter-terror (takeover) unit, equivalent to the U.S. Delta Force and F.B.I Hostage Rescue Team (Matkal and Yamam are the only Israeli special force units; all others are assistance units). Avi Nardia’s Israeli CQB system, also known as Kapap, has been recognized by Jim Wagner, founder of Reality Based Martial Arts, as the first Israeli Reality Based system. Avi is one of the top instructors of CQB Defensive Tactics in the Israeli Army and Police, and I think the only Israeli martial arts instructor in the world who was an official instructor of the Israeli Army, Police and Special Forces.
In his 24 years of experience, he earned the rank of major in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), and trained armed forces all over the world, including SWAT, SRT, SERT teams, special forces, corrections officers, Army and Marine units and counter terror units. To this day, he is a CQB trainer in the IDF Reserves, as well as a Reserve Police Sniper.
As we met he smiled, took off his shoes and began to tell me about Israeli CQB and martial arts. He started with his basic principles: Any weapon – one mind Always a student, sometimes a teacher Better to remain a student of reality than a master of illusion Knives never run out of ammo or jam, that’s why edged weapon are the most dangerous
The Israeli CQB Art of Kapap has been written in special ink, called blood. The knowledge came from experience, many times by making tragic mistakes, then studying the results to understand what needs to be done the next time. Unfortunately, Israel is the most experienced nation in the world when it comes to Terror, and that is why it has developed one of the most valued CQB training systems in the world.
CQB is about evaluation and evolution. A few hundred years ago, archery was a combat tool, while today it has evolved into a traditional martial art (i.e. Kyudo, Zen and the Way of Archery). An arrow is an edged weapon, which is projected to a target, using a bow, allowing the fighter to attack his enemy from a distance. A bullet, while not exactly an edged weapon, is projected to the target, by means of gunpowder, allowing the fighter to attack his enemy from a distance. Guns are the archery of modern times and we see them as an integral part of modern Israeli martial arts. And let’s not forget that when you disarm a gun you must know how to retain it and use it later.
Israeli CQB training owes its development to many names. Though most are missing from any list you will find (and never declared them self as “Masters “), all have donated to the art, and no individual can claim sole ownership. To understand more, research names such as Hanna Senesh, Solomon Aruch (as shown in the film Triumph of the Spirit), Meir Har Tzion, 11 Olympic Athletes massacred in Munich, Daniel Pearl and Ron Arad. If you don’t understand the roots and culture you won’t get it.
In Kapap we don`t bow and don`t give belts, since this is the way of Japanese martial arts and culture, not Israeli. Actually, according to Jewish (and also Muslim) culture, we are not allowed to bow unless it is to God, whereas in Japanese culture bowing
