Brian Hepp has been studying KAPAP under Albert Timen for approximately 4 years. He has successfully completed multiple KAPAP Academy seminars and is a Licensed Level 2 KAPAP Academy Instructor, a Sabre Law Enforcement Aerosol Projectors Instructor, a PPCT Certified Instructor, and an NRA Certified Instructor. In addition to group instruction, he specializes in personalized private training for individuals, families, and high net-worth individuals. He is a graduate of Colorado State University with a bachelor of Liberal Arts and has also completed Team Top Gun and Enlightened Leadership courses. He is an entrepreneur who owns multiple successful Colorado-based businesses.

Certifications:

• KAPAP Academy Level Two Certified Instructor
• PPCT Defensive Tactics Instructor
• PPCT Inmate Control Instructor
• PPCT Pressure Point Control System Instructor
• PPCT Impact Weapon/Collapsable Baton Instructor
• PPCT Weapon Retention and Disarming System Instructor
• Level 2 Israeli Combat Point Shooting (ICPS)
• Security Equipment Corporation (SEC)
• SEC OC (Pepper Spray) CAP Instructor
• SEC OC (Pepper Spray) CAP CSAP Instructor
• NRA Instructor
• NRA Range Safety Officer

Albert Timen is a former Elite Counter Intelligence undercover unit member for the IDF as well as a LOTAR and CQB instructor for various Police S.W.A.T. schools. Albert is one of only a few security operatives in the world to arrest a “live” Suicide Bomber! The bomber still had his explosive belt strapped on and was caught in the act of committing a bombing. In his 18 years of operational experience, Albert has trained Special Units in tactics and cross trained with the best operational units in the world.

Military, Law Enforcement and Governmental Experience

• Certified Lotar Instructor by the Counter Terrorsim School of the IDF
• Certified Hagana Atzmit / Defensive Tactics Instructor by the Israeli Police
• Certified EMT in the Israeli Army (IDF)
• Certified International Instructor under Lt. Colonel Chaim Peer, head of the International Kapap Federation
• Certified Shooting Instructor by the NRA and the Israeli Government
• Certified Range Safety Officer by the NRA

Jon Kleineman has traveled the world doing exhaustive and extensive research in the world of both traditional Martial Arts and real world combatives. He has collected this information with blood, sweat tears, and many broken bones. He currently runs his training center, “Evolution” in Cliffside Park, NJ. Training civilians, law enforcement, and military personnel in all aspects of personal combat, his training center serves as both a gym and a laboratory. Through live scenario based training, Jon and his students develop better and more efficient ways deal with real life conflict under stressful conditions. When not teaching, he is training in boxing, Muay Thai, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under some of the finest trainers in the New York City area. Still active in the fight game, literally every waking minute is dedicated to training or teaching. He is one of the few trainers who can say they live and breathe what they do.

Certifications:

• 4th Degree Black Belt, Korea Hapkido Federation
• Jin Jung Kwan, Hapkido Master Certificate
• 4th Dan, Korea Sin Moo Hapkido Association
• 1997 World Hapkido Games Gold Medalist - The second American ever to win full contact competition in Kwang-Ju Korea
• Black Belt, Judo
• Phase I Instructor, Progressive Fighting Systems
• Certified Knife Instructor, Congress of American Knife Fighters
• Certified Instructor, Filipino Archipelago Combatives
• Certified Instructor, Dos Manos
• Certified Staff Instructor, KAPAP/LOTAR
• Certified PDR Instructor, Blauer Tactical
• Certified Associate Instructor, United Federation of Russian Sambo
• Certified Instructor, Haganah
• Certified Fitness Trainer, International Sports Science Association (ISSA)
• Certified Yogi Shiromani