Traditionally, close-quarters combat was a military or law-enforcement term used to describe armed or unarmed hand-to-hand combat. However, the importance of martial arts in CQC training has always been of tantamount importance.
Before the advent of guns, especially in Asian cultures, military and martial artists developed battle-, ring- and street-tested methods of CQC training. CQC techniques have specifically focused on efficient, powerful and deadly hand-to-hand fighting strategies. Many martial arts—such as muay boran, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and wing chun kung fu—have evolved from combining skill sets from other combative arts.
Today’s martial artists, law-enforcement officers, military and elite fighting forces incorporate simple armed and unarmed drills, situational awareness and scenario training. Current CQC training also synthesize wrestling and boxing with neo-modern martial arts such as muay Thai, sambo, and “whatever comes along and is useful.”
– April 1, 2013
When some people think about the concept of impact, they imagine a punch sending someone through a wall — but it can be something as simple as a pressure-point attack. Watch Avi Nardia explain how he teaches this quick and quiet takedown method.
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– August 29, 2012
Kapap expert Avi Nardia and Brazilian jiu-jitsu master John Machado demonstrate the intersection of kapap’s “relative position” concept, Brazilian jiu-jitsu ground movements and close-quarters combat with firearms in this exclusive Israeli martial arts video excerpt from Kapap Combat Concepts — Vol. 4: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Applications. Simply put, the kapap concept
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– May 9, 2012
In the March 2012 issue of Black Belt, Executive Editor Robert W. Young named MMA fighter Tim Kennedy the Most Dangerous Man in the World — and with good reason, given his 14-3 MMA record driven by extensive training in karate, kickboxing, wrestling and jiu-jitsu. However, as Mr. Young pointed
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– April 5, 2012
The self-defense moves you implement, once you’re in a close-quarters fight for your life (See How to Defend Yourself Against an Attacker — Part 1: Rob Pincus on the Principles of Using Firearms as Self-Defense Weapons!), can be broken down into the following three steps:
How to Defend Yourself Against an
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– April 2, 2012
Using self-defense weapons such as a gun to defend yourself, in most circumstances, isn’t all that difficult. Shooting a gun to punch holes in paper is pretty straightforward: Align the sights, superimpose them over the target and press the trigger smoothly. If the equipment is set up properly, it’s hard
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– March 29, 2012
For many years, I thought about how I could improve “the game” that Carlos Newton displayed (See Israeli Self-Defense: The Genesis of Kapap Techniques and Their Application Against Attackers — Part 1!) to make it more applicable to self-defense.
A Turning Point for Kapap Techniques
After moving to the United States,
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– March 26, 2012
There’s a saying by Rabbi Nachman of Braslav: “Don’t let who you are destroy who you can be.”
Brazilian jiu-jitsu expert John Machado always tells his students, “Don’t let your ego step onto the mat.”
Bruce Lee advised us to enjoy the way and not look only for the target.
My friend
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– January 27, 2012
Are you looking for H2HC (hand-to-hand combat) training? Well, we’ve got the military martial arts expert you’re looking for — and, to boot, he’s also an MMA fighter! We’re talking, of course, about Strikeforce fighter Tim Kennedy. This mixed martial artist is a staff sergeant in the Texas National Guard.
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– November 28, 2011
It’s not too early to start making your summer travel plans for next year! If you want your vacation to revolve around reality-based self-defense, you’ll want to sign up for the Russian Martial Art Camp 2012: Systema at Full Range.
The training camp will take place just outside Toronto, Canada, from
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– November 23, 2011
Are you into the close-quarters combat training styles of Avi Nardia, Albert Timen, Alain Cohen, Mike Lee Kanarek, Richard Ryan and the like? Are you interested in realistically depicted street-fighting scenarios and step-by-step breakdowns thereof? Then Black Belt has a new group of krav maga and kapap DVDs that might
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