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Kapap

Why did you start training in Kapap? What is the difference between Kapap and
Krav Maga?
Throughout my training in different Martial
arts I found that Kapap fit me personally better in Well Kapap was the first doctrine that was
a combative situation. I still value the traditional taught to young underground Israeli fighters where
arts because they gave me a strong foundation and the state of israel then established the system of
base, but for me personally Kapap was the art that Krav Maga came to existence and was created by
fit me best. Many of us try to compare styles and some of the instructors that were originally Kapap
systems to one another but i find that all systems instructors. Kapap is still used today in Yamam, anti
are good. Each method is a different branch from terrorist units, border patrol units, some secret ser-
the same tree just like we as a people are all from vice and other military special units. Krav Maga and
the same roots. Some of us might have different Kapap deals with both empty hands and weapons
looks, customs, cultures but at the end of the day but with Kapap you learn to work with the equip-
we are one. Kapap offered me the freedom to ex- ment on you and use the equipment as part of your
press myself through combat. I was training infor- body.
mally for many years wherever I can get it, be it in a
dojo, kwoon, or in a park. Moshe and I would train Why was Kapap so obscure until the late
frequently after he formed the International Kapap 1980’s?
association and we would train a lot. Even though
it was formally called Kapap, i just approached it as Once Krav Maga became popular, many
doing freestyle fighting. Israeli instructors were advertising an publicizing
the system around the world and teaching out of

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