Interview 1

ANDY H – CLOSE COMBAT PRACTICER INTERVIEW

Question: How did you meet Raffaelli Snackers?

Andy H: I meet for the first time in 2007 during a seminar in Florida

Question: Since when do you practice the close combat?
Andy H: Since a long time. I was a former USMC

Question: Have you done any other system before?

Andy H: In the civilians I make many martial arts but since the army only CQC/H2H Combat

Question: Why did you choose the close combat?

Andy H: I stay in this side because it is a really violent combat system and definitively dangerous

Question: What is the difference between close combat and martial arts or other combat sport?
Andy H: Very Clear difference, it is not a sport it is a system to eliminate, destroy your enemy

Question: The close combat it is a sport for you?
Andy H: No

Question: Are there women in close combat?

Andy H: I see the women in Close Combat and especially with Legionary Institute during the seminar. It is incredible because Raffaelli Snackers kick strongly the women the same of a men.

Question: Are women working with Men, where she works between her only?

Andy H: During the seminar, with a men

Question: The close combat is right for everyone?

Andy H: Not really

Question: The close combat it is violent?

Andy H: Extremely

Question: How Mr. Raffaelli Snackers working in close combat?

Andy H: Strongly with brutality. It is a fucking good instructor

Question: When you train, Mr Raffaelli Snackers is there training with you?

Andy H: When I work with Raffaelli Snackers, this guy make all what we do. It is a machine always with a smile, this guy have no heart but he have a motors inside is body

Question: Your instructor is qualified in his field?

Andy H: He is not my instructor but I go always when he make a seminar because it is a fucking good instructor

Question: There are many forums and blog or talking about Raffaelli Snackers. Concerning him, many saying it is not good to the ground work and did not have much power and speed with its size. What is your opinion?

Andy H: For all of this eat shit, going to work with him and you see

Question: Are you working also with weapons?

Andy H: During the seminar yes we work also with a firearms

Question: You made the shot with firearms?

Andy H: Yes of course, this is a stupid question

Question: Do you think that Raffaelli Snackers is a good instructor?

Andy H: Yes a fucking good. He has much logical and he is extremely determined and fast in all of is action. It takes time to explain the principles correctly about the techniques, the locks and all action in close combat. He has a lot of humility and it does not take, for super warrior. This man is simple, real and available. And believe me, he is good at what he does

Question: What is the hardest in the practice of close combat?

Andy H: Shock, beating and pain.

Question: When you hit, you really hit during your workout?

Andy H: When I make a seminar with him, Always, this guy shake you and you do the same with him.

Question: This instructor asks you to become aggressive, vicious about your enemy?

Andy H: He said that all the time, don’t forget it is not your friend it is your enemy, eliminate this enemy

Question: Do you work outdoors in close combat?

Andy H: This guy work everywhere.

Question: Do you use protection equipment when you practice the close combat?

Andy H: Never. But sometime we work with gloves.

Question: do you work the left and right sides or only one side?

Andy H: all the side.

Question: What do you think, for people who use the term close combat on the internet or in a club?
Andy H: Many people from this area do not have the knowledge to teach. My opinion is clear it takes a lot of practice and a military background to understand.

Question: What is the purpose of close combat?

Andy H: Kill or get killed. Eliminate your enemy.

Question: Raffaelli Snackers, teach you this purpose?

Andy H: Raffaelli Snackers said all the time during the training: it is not your friend eliminate this guy.

Question: If you need to warn people who want to practice the close combat, What is your advice for the people to do the real close combat?

Andy H: Keep your eyes open and above all do not be made by instructors of classical dance

Question: Finally, you take shots during your workout and you also give shots to Raffaelli Snackers during the workout?

Andy H: Yes, in all part of is body and he laughs. This guy is not normal, he suffered but it is so concentrated as all it passes over his back

Thank you to Mr. ANDY H

This interview was conducted by us (SEPTEMBER 2010)