Prajnya, in association with the
Chennai chapter of International Krav Maga Federation (India), will
be conducting a personal safety workshop for women on December 9. The
workshop will be conducted by S.SreeRam, a KravMaga self-defence
instructor at Chennai, South India. To learn more about attending the workshop: http://www.prajnya.in/16d12selfdefence.htm
SreeRam
teaches Civilians, Chennai City Police and Security. He started
W.A.H.R (Women against harassment & Rape) an NGO devoted to
increase personal safety awareness amongst women and to 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. To find out more, log on to
www.kravmagaindia.in
We talked to
SreeRam to get his thoughts on Krav Maga, heroes in movies and
more...
Do heroes only exist in tamil movies or can
ordinary people learn to self-defend themselves
Actually 'Heroism" as a concept is very confusing for the common
man. It makes them practice violence based on some out-dated values
and self-righteous ego. Like how Romance is unrealistically portrayed
in main-stream cinema, so is Violence. :)
I
often remind my students that "Violence
is a very stupid way of addressing an issue."
Then why should one learn KravMaga - which is rated as one of the
most violent combat system (the traditional martial artists see
KravMaga as "dirty fighting') ?!The GOOD should
learn to assert themselves; otherwise they have to be resigned to be
dominated by the BAD.
That's why Imi Lichtenfeld, the father of KravMaga combat system gave
the baseline "So that the good can do their work"
Ordinary
people can learn self-defense. They have a right to protect
themselves, their assets and their dependents.I will teach them once
I am sure they are GOOD! ;) How fit do you have to be to learn Krav Maga?
Fitness
is NOT a pre-requisite to learn to defend the self.. If one is fit,
it makes the job of self-defense easier, that's all. In fact I would
go further and state, "The
unfit people have to be taught self-defense on priority; since they
are the soft targets for criminals."
What are the tangible and
psychological benefits of learning self-defense?
Well, a few years back i was touching 90 kg and my hip size was 42.
After I took up KravMaga, I have been consistently been around 67kg
and my hip size is a tolerable 34 inches. And I don't go to gym and
definitely will not win any award for being disciplined! :P
Fitness is an
integral part of KravMaga training, since we focus on improving 4
aspects -
- CARDIO-VASCULAR EFFECIENCY - Stamina in common parlance
- FLEXIBILITY - achieved by simple stretching exercise
- POWER - which is basically 'mass in motion' - not to be confused with plain Strength
and
the most important fitness attribute- MENTAL FITNESS i.e the ability
to handle stress; which
has 2 dimension -
Our own Stress due to Frustration, Sense of inability and Fatigue
and the Stress created by others - Fear, Anger, Competitive ego
Our own Stress due to Frustration, Sense of inability and Fatigue
and the Stress created by others - Fear, Anger, Competitive ego
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