This last weekend I traveled to Boston to teach a seminar at one of my FIGHT Authorized Centers. The subject of the seminar was multiple attackers , both empty hand and with weapons, and 3rd party disarms. It is in this nature of materials that a lot of our principals in our regular one-on-one FIGHT curriculum start making more sense to our students. Some tactics are implemented into the regular FIGHT curriculum that my partner Randy Proto and myself put together to be able to support more complex scenarios such as multiple attackers and 3rd party disarms in the later stages of training in HaganaH.

That specific integration was very important to me when developing the HaganaH system, in many other systems tactics do not “mesh” together so to speak….and different subjects in training follow complete different principles from one another. Without that integration practitioners will have to scan not only through a lot of techniques under pressure , but also they will have to scan through principles as well!  While I was teaching the seminar this last weekend a few times my FIGHT Instructors kept saying ” Wow, now I see why we do this….” .    A lot of my FIGHT Instructors will only get the dept of our system after spending a good amount of time in our system, both training and teaching. I always say in Instructor FIGHT Certifications : ” I won’t know how good a FIGHT Instructor really is until at least 3 to 5 years from now”

As long as an Instructor teaches HaganaH in modules only, without the deep understanding of the integration between those modules….he is teaching FIGHT with the addition of the modules such as ITK, Ground Survival, ICS etc….   only when an Instructor teaches HaganaH in true integration in both Principles and Techniques, then and only then, is he/she teaching HaganaH!