HaganaH Fight
I have enclosed a description of the fight system that I will be training in which includes these Modules: FIGHT, ITK (Israeli Tactical Knife), ICS (Israeli Combat Shooting), Ground Combat, Combat Wrestling, Black Fin Muay Thai/Kickboxing, and Combat Fitness. In order to test each area I must be proficient in each area.
F.I.G.H.T. is designed for worst case scenarios, when escaping from the situation may not be a viable option. All tactics are Haganah and therefore combat proven. In every situation where you can’t escape, you learn three options: restrain, incapacitate or terminate the attacker. You decide what is legally and morally justified and necessary based upon the circumstances, not the type of attack. This is a key concept. Many programs only teach degrees of force based on the attack coming in. A pin to a wall by a drunk at a friend’s house doesn’t equate to a pin to a wall by a stranger in your own home in the middle of the night with other intruders heading toward a family member. The attacks are the same – the end tactic needs to be different.
Haganah’s F.I.G.H.T. Program is taught to civilians, law enforcement and other professionals across the country. Individuals from doctors to chefs to police defensive tactics instructors train in F.I.G.H.T., all together. F.I.G.H.T. is taught at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where terrorists are detained.
ITK – Israeli Tactical Knife
The ITK Program is restricted to law enforcement, military and approved civilians. This program teaches use of the knife as a defensive tool and as an offensive weapon (for military). It brings Mike Lee Kanarek’s extensive expertise in use of edged weapons to the classroom setting.
ITK covers all facets of using a knife against an assailant who is also armed with a knife from effective deployment strategies to using reverse grip tactics to draw the attacker into an effective counterattack.
Knife-fighting training is an excellent way to develop a keen understanding of how a knife is used in an attack. It is also a great way to develop a sense of the flow of an assault with a knife, improve footwork for all programs, and improve recognition of knife motion and patterns.
All of this not only serves to turn students into effective knife fighters, but also importantly helps students greatly enhance their ability to “read” the existence and direction of travel of a knife being used against them. This is a critical ability to possess and to develop for the empty hand versus knife tactics taught in the F.I.G.H.T. program.
ICS – Israeli Combat Shooting (Defensive Handgun)
If you want to learn how to effectively use a handgun to defend yourself, or if you are law enforcement seeking to enhance your skill with combat proven methods of shooting accurately under stress, this program is for you. Whether you have extensive experience with firearms, or none at all, this program will give you a reliable set of skills should you need to use one.
Even if you never intend to own a handgun and are opposed to them in general, as a responsible adult who is studying self defense tactics, you should take the short Introductory course (ICS 1000) so you know what to do if you are confronted by one and disarm the attacker.
Israeli Combat Shooting (ICS) was developed throughout countless combat engagements by Israel’s most Elite Special Forces and Special Ops Counter-Terrorism units during the last few decades of modern combat conflict in the Middle-East. Our shooting methodologies have been truly battle-tested and have been proven extremely effective time after time.
Our unique no nonsense combative approach has one major guiding principle and that is: to hit and neutralize the opponent as fast as possible thereby eliminating the threat at the earliest stage possible.
Our training methods specialize in preparing students for real life threatening situations, so our graduates at higher level courses will be both functional and effective in their shooting skills when it counts the most – under pressure.
Building muscle memory (programming your body to shoot accurately instinctively) and proper mindset is heavily stressed from the beginning stages of our courses and stress shooting is introduced gradually into the training drills in order for you to be able to bridge training concepts to the reality of the actual pressure associated with real world events.
Courses are conducted in three progressive levels to ensure your complete education and skill development: ICS-1000, ICS-2000 and ICS-3000. Each course is approximately 4 hours long. Each course entails approximately 1 hour of dry practice and education, and live fire of 250 to 300 rounds of ammunition in a variety of situations.
Students who complete all three levels typically can draw a holstered gun, engage 3 targets under stress at varying angles and distances, reload their weapon and engage 2 additional targets with hits on all 5 targets using only 8 shots, in 8 seconds or less.