Krav Maga TamilNadu - Self Defense Fitness Courses

In case you see 2 or more of these symptoms in yourself, you are victim of fitness!       1.        Relentless pursuit of looking good       2.        Training like a professional champion       3.        Following every fitness fad       4.        Believing all that you read, hear or see       5.        Impractical & unsustainable diet       6.        You believe ‘More Pain is More Gain’       7.        You  want to reverse the clock       8.        You are a boring mono-maniac       9.        You prefer gym than time with spouse, kids and friends   ...

I see all these martial artists and fitness geeks going OOOH and AAAHH about PAIN, SWEAT and PUSHING ONE-SELF.  I will explain why it’s a put-off to anyone whose IQ is above 80, and stays there in spite of a testosterone surge. Most Instructors wont tell you this. Because its bad for business. Do I hear “You are an Oldy. Just shut up and move aside ”?! Even gym instructors who spend hours watching YouTube and munching bland boiled eggs think I am crazy to do all this at my age. I have been doing physical things (Weight-lifting, Rowing, Karate, long Bike rides, KravMaga) for 40 years now. But reducing these passions to a physical level is like declaring your love to a girl with vulgar hip-thrusts, in front of her face. "See how much I love you?!"  How to “Pace your Passion” Many days I teach for more than 8 hours. I realised the value of taking it like a marathon runner. Pacing steadily, conserving body and mind, and bringing them together in a focussed ...

Which is effective in a fight - Gross motor skills or Fine Motor skills ?  This is an argument going on for ages, amongst martial arts instructors. Much has been said on both sides. Now I am adding my own thoughts to this argument, with the benefit of having practiced Karate and KravMaga and the hind-sight acquired after having taught KravMaga to civilians and police. Actually experts say  there are 3 levels of motor skills - Fine, Complex and Gross . Here is my simple description which explains the 3 motor skills in the context of fighting (click for readable view) . To make it even simpler – 1. Practice = swimming on dry land  2. Sparring = swimming in a shallow swimming pool 3. Actual fight = trying to survive in rough waves, blindfolded! See how  complex skills fail in an actual crisis, even for trained police men! "So, I need NOT learn fine movements?!" Let me clarify that I am NOT against teaching Fine motor skills. The mor...

Recently, in Brazil, UFC Featherweight champs Maiqul Falcao and his training partner Kaue Mena was beaten up by a gang outside a gas station. Kaue Mena is now in critical condition at a hospital. The video clearly shows Falcao hitting a girl unprovoked, which brings to the scene a gang of local youth. The gang vastly outnumbers these 2 UFC fighters and they proceed to make mincemeat of the fighters, with rods and merciless kicks to the head. So these heroes of the ring become pathetic zeroes on the street. What's the net take? What are the signs that differentiate a victim of his own Ego, Ignorance and Stupidity? What makes a guy a stupid street fighter? Asking to be hit ?! 1) Tendency to initiate brawls Some people have a negative cloud hovering over their heads always. They keep on goading others by being rude, provoking and abusive. They get away with it when they are in dominant positions, inside their home or office cabin. But once outside the safety of t...

In my recent blog I criticized the technique of a guy  in Chennai,  who claims he is a martial arts teacher . He also wrote a rejoinder, which without mentioning the art by name, criticized every aspect of KravMaga. This guy was also intelligent enough to make his prejudiced bile sound like a dispassionate comparison of martial arts.  But ... ... Why is it NOT intelligent to compare different martial arts? This half-baked guru's comparison of different methods itself is misleading, like comparing  apples  and  oranges , to use a cliché. What he missed to understand was the fact that every method is different, because they evolved in different environments, and for different objectives. When analyzing any particular fighting art one has to look at the anthropological, sociological and sometimes even the political aspects of the environment in which that art evolved.  Another major differentiator in a method of fighting is, for what j...