Krav Maga TamilNadu - Self Defense Fitness Courses

WARNING to WOMEN! After the Guwahati molestation and Delhi gang rape, more women are enquiring about self-defense courses. This blog post is to warn those women. They could end up with martial-arts schools which will actually put them in greater danger, when they try to repel a sexual aggressor. REALITY NOT REALIZED BY MARTIAL-ART TEACHERS Many martial arts instructors DON'T understand the specific problems of women, like - 1- The average Women is SMALLER than the average Man 2- The Woman will be under extreme FEAR and STRESS during a sexual attack 3- Most Women are PUT OFF by Violence; so, learning to fight does NOT appeal to them 4- Most Women DON'T see themselves as capable of fighting a bigger & aggressive Man The martial-arts instructor should factor in this reality before making a curriculum for women. But do they? The emphatic answer is a big " NO " ! HOW WOMEN ARE MISGUIDED BY HALF-BAKED GURUS Recently I saw a video of a self-promote...

Bystander Effect - In the recent Delhi gang rape case, this appalling social habit was glaringly evident. The girl and the boy were thrown out of the bus by the rapists. They were naked and injured, lying on the road in the bone chilling 2* Celcius cold night of Delhi - for more than an hour. Many passing vehicles only slowed down but none stopped.  2 days back a woman accident victim was lying bleeding during day-time for 45 minutes on Mount Road, Chennai; no body came forward to assist her. She died on the way to the hospital. Accident victim pleading for help More such incidents in this video, convey that  callousness  is not limited to India. Public apathy is a socio-psychological phenomena all over the world. Video -  The Bystander Effect: Real incidents Kitty Genovese  Social Psychologists who studied the infamous 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese - said " That contrary to common expectations, larger numbers of bystanders decrease the likeli...

Since the Delhi gang-rape, so far 18 people have asked me -   " Will self-defence techniques actually work for an 'average girl' against a group of men.?! " My answer is -  " Those who keep asking "Will this work?!"  die without finding out whether it will." ................................................................... Learning provides you the tools. Practice makes you an expert. Pushing yourself out of the comfort-zone makes you superior. and above all.. Introspection makes you realistic That's too true of all arts.   The same hierarchy applies to learning to fight also.  So, every input in learning has an output in application ... ... which is reasonably proportionate.  Whether its Singing, Tennis, Medicine, Drama, Astronomy or KravMaga.  If you have a natural aptitude to that field, the progress will be better than your peers. Decide at which level you want to play..and put in the required effort . Yo...

Self-defense Workshops for Women - Part I I am sharing the learning from the many workshops for women on 'self-defense and personal safety', I conducted in the last 4 years. Please don’t hesitate to comment if you feel I am wrong. I also look forward to your suggestions to improve the content and presentation. What I learnt during these workshops to women - (Disclaimer - The following are my own broad observations. Of course some women are exceptions; but they are very few.) 1. In daily life, women face more problems than we men can ever visualize or comprehend . Women face persistent stares, uninitiated talks, lewd comments, unwanted touch, vulgar taps and so many unsavoury acts which we men don't experience. So, they should be keener on learning martial-arts than men. Right? No, it’s wrong. Oh! Why?  Because... Woman power !  2. Women don't see themselves beating up men Even though women acknowledge they face constant harassments, they...

The Dynamics of Police encounters  - Part III After the recent police encounter in TamilNadu, furious debates are happening in every media channel; in some of which I also participated. Instead of analysing this specific encounter and getting into shallow arguments, I want to talk on the larger aspects like -        How does the public view Police?       The ills of Indian police          How equipped / skilled are our police?               Infrastructure & Training       Why encounters happen?       What the public wants and how it can be realized? How does the public view police? Sheep dog and wolf analogy - According to Geoff Thompson , Police are the 'Sheep dog'. which protects the 'Innocent herd of Sheep".  The criminal is akin to the "Wolf" When there is no threat; the sheep hate the presence of the ...

THE ZEN OF STREET FIGHT - SOME SMART TIPS - Part II Warning - This analysis may NOT be very crisp like my other posts. But still I will highlight the key definitions in bold, so that you can have at least a net-take if you don’t have the time . Imi Lichtenfeld In Part I we started looking at issues which had to be understood before one takes up training in fighting arts.  Having stated that violence is mostly NOT an intelligent solution to confrontations, lets now try and answer  " Then why should one learn fighting, especially the most violent system of KravMaga!?" The answer is simple. "So that the good can do their work" This is the base line of KravMaga, attributed to Imi Lichtenfeld  who is considered as the founder of the combat system. This line captures the essence of KravMaga. Chennai Police learn KravMaga Why I practice Violence as a vocation Once while talking to my friend, who was living in London, she asked me "Wh...

SELF DEFENSE TIP - KRAV-MAGA CHENNAI If you like this post, Please SHARE it. Just click the appropriate icon of  "Sociable'  section on the right hand side of this page. Thank you for giving your precious time! Hope it was worth the while. :) ............................................................... SreeRam is a KravMaga self-defence instructor at Chennai, South India. He teaches Civilians, Chennai City Police and Security. SreeRam has started W.A.H.R (Women against harassment & Rape)an NGO devoted to increase personal safety awareness amongst women and equip them to handle sexual harassment at public and work places. SreeRam conducts KravMaga personal safety and self-defense workshops at corporates, especially IT/BPO companies where many women work late. He has also conducted workshops, for rural women. On 8th March 2012 ( International Women's Day) KravMaga SreeRam released a small handy booklet for women titled " 10A-s of Personal Safety for Women...