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Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces Free FREE KAPAP COMBAT CONCEPTS: MARTIAL ARTS OF THE ISRAELI SPECIAL FORCES PDF Avi Nardia,Albert Timen | 180 pages | 28 Apr 2008 | Black Belt Communications | 9780897501613 | English | Santa Clarita, CA, United States Israeli Special Forces Training | Learn Krav Maga Like The IDF The Kapap system was developed in the late s, within the Jewish Aliyah camps as part of preparatory training before their arrival in Mandatory Palestine. It was primarily considered a practical skill set that was acquired during the training period of the Palmach and Haganah fighters. The main focus was to upgrade the physical endurance, to elevate and strengthen the spirit, and to develop a defensive and offensive Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces set. It included cold weapon practical usage, boxing, judo, jujutsukarate, as well as fighting with knives and sticks. In the s, Maishel Horovitz, the leader of HaMahanot HaOlim youth movement, developed a short stick fighting method in order to deal with the British policemen who were armed with clubs. Later, his method became one of the main components of hand-to-hand combat training for all the Haganah fighters, therefore making a major contribution to the development of Kapap. According to the historian Noah Grosshowever, Horovitz did not even know that his stick-fighting system was taught to the soldiers until He is recognized internationally as a Soke — founder of the modern Kapap system. Paardekooper holds courses in mainland Europe. Chaim Pe'er to open an authorized Kapap training center. Chaim Pe'er. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Categories : Israeli martial arts. Hidden categories: Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages Articles lacking sources from January All articles lacking sources Articles containing Hebrew-language text. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read View source View history. Help Learn Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons. Palmach soldiers practicing Kapap stick-fighting. Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces | Independent Publishers Group Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extreme efficiency. From the outset, the original concept of Krav Maga was to take the most simple and practical techniques of other fighting styles originally European boxing, wrestling, and street fighting and to make them rapidly teachable to military conscripts. Krav Maga has a philosophy emphasizing aggression, [9] and simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers. There are several organizations teaching variations of Krav Maga internationally. In addition, there are two types of this martial art; one type is used in the Israeli security forces and one type is in civilian use. The name in Hebrew can be translated as "contact combat". Like most martial arts, Krav Maga Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces students to avoid physical confrontation. Attacks are aimed at the most vulnerable parts of the body, and training is not limited to techniques that avoid severe injury; some even permanently injure or cause death to the opponent. Students learn to defend against all variety of attacks and are taught to counter in the quickest and most efficient way. Ideas in Krav Maga include: [15]. Training can also cover the study and development of situational awareness to develop an understanding of one's surroundings, learning to understand the psychology of a street confrontation, and identifying potential threats before an attack occurs. It may also cover ways to deal with physical and verbal methods to avoid violence whenever possible. It also teaches mental toughness, using controlled scenarios to strengthen mental fortitude in order for students to control the impulse and not do something rash, but instead attack only when necessary and as a last resort. Some of the key focuses of techniques [22] Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces Krav Maga are—as described above—effectiveness and instinctive response under stress. To that end, Krav Maga is an eclectic system that has not sought to replace existing effective techniques, taking what is useful from available systems, for example:. Lichtenfeld became active in a Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces range of sports, including gymnastics, wrestling, and boxing. InLichtenfeld won the Slovak Youth Wrestling Championship, and in the adult championship light and middle weight divisions. During the ensuing decade, Lichtenfeld athletic activities focused mainly on wrestling, both as a contestant and a trainer. In the mids, anti-Semitic riots began to threaten the Jews of BratislavaCzechoslovakia. Lichtenfeld became the leader of a group of Jewish boxers and wrestlers who took to the streets to defend Jewish neighborhoods against the growing numbers of anti-Semitic national socialists. Lichtenfeld quickly discovered, however, that actual fighting was very different from competition fighting, and although boxing and wrestling were good sports, they were not always practical for the aggressive and brutal nature of street combat. It was then that he started to re-evaluate his ideas about fighting and started developing the skills and techniques that would eventually become Krav Maga. Having become a thorn in the side of the equally anti-Semitic local authorities, in Lichtenfeld left his home with his family and friends on the last refugee ship to escape Europe. After making his way to Mandatory PalestineLichtenfeld joined the Haganah paramilitary organization. During this period, Lichtenfeld trained several elite units of the Haganah including Palmach striking force of the Haganah and forerunner of the special units of the Israel Defense Forces and the Pal-Yamas well as groups of police officers. He served in the IDF for about 20 years, during which time he developed and refined his unique method for self-defense and hand-to-hand combat. However, self-defense was based strictly upon the scientific and dynamic principles of the human body. In judo training was added as part of the Krav Maga training, and until there were no grades in Krav Maga. Then a trainee's grades were determined largely by his knowledge in judo. In Eli AvikzarLichtenfeld's principal student and first black belt [28]began learning aikido and in left for France where he received a black belt in aikido. Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces role of Krav Maga in the army advanced greatly after Eli's appointment. More courses were given and every P. Up to this date, Eli had trained 80, male soldiers and 12, female soldiers. Further pursuing excellence as a student of martial arts, Eli went to Germany in and received a black belt in aikido from the European Federation. Lichtenfeld died in January in NetanyaIsrael. Most of the Krav Maga organizations in Israel use Imi Lichtenfeld's colored belt grading system which is based upon the Judo ranking system. It starts with white belt, and then yellow, orange, green, blue, brown and black belts. Black belt students can move up the ranks from 1st to 9th Dan. The time and requirements for advancing have some differences between the organizations. Other organizations that teach Krav Maga in and outside of Israel use similar grading systems. A patch system was developed by Eyal Yanilov in the late s. The grades are divided into three main categories; Practitioner, Graduate and Expert. Each of the categories, which are often abbreviated to their initials, has five ranks. Grades P1 through to P5 are the student levels and make up the majority of the Krav Maga community. Although there are some subtle differences, the various organizations teach the same core techniques and principles. In some organizations sparring is slow and light until the student reaches G2 level. This takes approximately four to six years because rising one level in the Practitioner and Graduate categories takes at minimum half a year of consistent training. Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces is, however, more common to observe Kapap Combat Concepts: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces trainees grading only once a year from P3 and up. Once in G2, students also do simulated "real" fighting with protective gear. Some organizations encourage sparring as soon as students start training. They train full contact with minimal gear in both stand-up and ground fighting, using semi-professional MMA rules for safety. Sparring should always be supervised and monitored carefully by a qualified instructor. Some Krav Maga organizations do not support a competition component, taking the stance that Krav Maga is not a sport. So-called "fighting" sports tend to operate under principles of using safe techniques, doing minimal harm, and consequently wearing down opponents and using other tactics supported by the "rules" of safe competition. In its role as self-defense and as a hand-to-hand combat system, Krav Maga operates under a completely different set of principles in which techniques may indeed cause significant damage and fights are to be ended as quickly as possible when the conflict cannot be avoided. Krav Maga organizations that involve competition are usually founded and named specifically to focus on using Krav Maga-based techniques specifically under a set of sporting principles. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Israeli martial art. Play media. Martial Arts of the World: En Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13 April Retrieved 3 April The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March Retrieved 1 May — via youtube. BBC News. IDF Blog. Archived from the original on 11 January Avi Nardia. Black Belt Magazine. Archived from the original on 11 May Retrieved 31 December Krav Maga Guild. Retrieved 25 May The Telegraph.
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