It always feels good to see our favourite heroes or heroines beat the daylights out of the bad guys, be it at the bus stop, in a dark alley, a busy highway or even at a restaurant. We even imitate their punches, kicks and smart dodges at home. But when we face a situation similar [...]

Have you ever wondered what’s the secret behind Jennifer Lopez’ slim figure, or speculated about the formula behind Kareena Kapoor’s fit body? Now you have the answer. It is the popular Israeli combat technique Krav Maga, blended with effective workouts, that is keeping these celebrities fit and trim. Not only the ladies, suave Abhay Deol [...]

What do you do when autodrivers abuse you roundly when you refuse to pay one-and-a-half? We get expert suggestions Use a book as a weapon: Krav Maga Frank J ‘Wolf’, Krav Maga practitioner: “First, don’t get scared. If you are, don’t show it because that would only encourage the harasser to get more aggressive. The [...]

Business Standard There are people who grow and change and develop themselves throughout their lives with the help of other people, books, maybe some after-work classes in pottery or krav maga.

Hindustan Times Krav-Maga Less a martial art and more a system of hand-to-hand combat devised by the Israeli defence forces, Krav Maga isn’t for the weak-willed. The system combines grappling and wrestling techniques with street fighting skills. You learn how to break the stranglehold of an attacker by going for his groin, face or knee. [...]

A group of Bangaloreans wants to make the city the Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation capital of India, finds Arati Rao. Frank J, who conducts Krav Maga classes in Richmond Town, offered a different perspective. He usually delivers a five minute talk on how to deal with bullet wounds and shrapnel gashes, and also attempts to include [...]

Keeping in Shape At Solace, a 20,000-sq-ft gym in Calcutta, members can choose from yoga, body balancing, Krav Maga and salsa.

Krav Maga It might have been developed as hand-to-hand combat for the Israeli military, but Krav Maga today has morphed into a popular group activity with team building at its core. There are different programmes for civilians and for the military. And bite this: there are defence programmes for women and children too.

Men with bellies are back. The ‘Return of the Pot Belly’ is being touted as a repulsion of the super-flat six-pack and eight-pack washboard abs. Suddenly, men with bellies are as acceptable as they were in the days when Sanjeev Kumar and Shammi Kapoor were sexy. Jackie Shroff and Govinda are currently seen happily sporting [...]

DNA Newspaper, Bangalore It’s never too late to learn a how to defend yourself — after all, the streets aren’t getting any safer You could be petite or small-built, but never underestimate what your body can actually do. And that goes even for the women. The world isn’t getting any safer and one of the best [...]

Indian Express Newspaper Sreenivas Janyala Posted online: Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 0259 hrs Hyderabad : The changing security situation in the country has made training for the IPS probationers a lot tougher. From Krav Maga, an unarmed street fight perfected by Israeli soldiers, to scuba diving for steadier nerves, to guerrilla warfare in the [...]

Times of India Newspaper “Twist and turn …straight punch” — an instructor barks out these orders in a room full of women learning to kick and punch their way out of trouble. It’s a place where young female professionals are undergoing training in Krav Maga, the lethal Israeli martial art. With an alarming rise in crime against women professionals, many firms have started offering self-defence [...]

Hindustan Times Newspaper Let’s face it — it is easy to tire of workouts. Running on the treadmill every day or following the same weight-training routine for a few months can become boring. It also ceases being challenging when your body gets used to it.

It’s raining fitness clubs in India. Every month, there is a new chain of ‘the best fitness club’ making its foray into the country. Indian fitness companies are not too far behind either. Among these ‘world-class’ clubs, one name that still stands out rather prominently is Ozone Fitness & Spa. Wait. Don’t pack your gym [...]

The Hindustan Times Newspaper New Delhi, December 14, 2009 Abhay Deol is learning Krav Maga, an Israeli form of martial arts that Akshay Kumar is well versed with. 

Dressed in fatigues of a soldier is Frank, Bangalore’s Krav Maga practitioner. Krav Maga is a system of self defence created by Israeli military and combines the various forms of martial arts. It is highly dynamic and street oriented…

The Asian Age Newspaper Shruti Badyal With crime against women continuing unabated in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, recently appealed to women to join self-defence training courses offered by the government and private agencies.

Live Mint Magazine Gender parity is desirable for individuals and countries, but ultimately likravving your life as a woman involves not just competing with the males but also cherishing those qualities which make both women and men gloriously different and therefore unique. Tomorrow, the World Economic Forum’s India Economic Summit will begin in New Delhi. [...]

Times of India HYDERABAD: Terrorism has made life unimaginably tough for the latest batch of IPS probationers what with new combat techniques being introduced into the training schedule. The latest addition for budding police officers at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) is “Krav Maga” an Israeli hand-to-hand combat technique that gives the [...]

by NISHAL LAMA | 26. October 2009 Krav Maga is a form of martial arts that is used by some of the top defence agencies around the world. Find out how Bangalore’s taking up this latest fitness fad. Krav Maga, a form of martial arts from Israel is attracting a lot of attention in the city. [...]

Abhay Deol surely knows how to make the best use of time. His differences with Sonam Kapoor on the sets of Aisha were discussed at length recently. Sources on the sets of the much-awaited film reported that the two young- actors got into a non-friendly mode as Sonam reportedly took a long time in getting her make- up done, [...]

Saranya Chakrapani CHENNAI: As racial attacks are becoming nightmarish for the families of students in Australia, Sreeam says, “The Government of India can pressurise the Australian government to put an end to these attacks, but an individual by himself has to go that extra mile to repulse such assaults. That is when my years of [...]

Krav Maga, the military hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel, is flourishing at Calcutta’s Solace gym. Conducted twice a week, the gym also organises special classes for children on Sundays where they are taught self-defence moves…

Motorists Join Self-Defence Classes — From Karate To Krav Maga — To Cope With Violence While Driving Chennai: You’ve heard of self-defence instructors modifying lessons to cater to women. Now, you’ve got martial art instructors in Chennai teaching men and women how to defend themselves against increasing incidence of road rage. And to make sure [...]

Sreeram Until January this year, martial arts were as alien to her as Martians are to humans. Now, she is a card-carrying follower of the Krav Maga system. Following my persuasion, she began to train in this combat form. But I did not expect her to take to it in such a big way. Geetha [...]

Mumbaiites are practising their lethal moves in the latest martial arts that have caught their fancy, and how! Clearly, they’ve found a handy way to deal with rising stress levels, work pressures, sexual harassment and their fitness issues with popular techniques like these… Krav Maga Push-ups, squats, kicks and stretching, after an intense 30 minutes [...]

New Delhi: With the PM hinting at fresh strikes from across the border, security concerns have once again taken centrestage. Post 26/11, the security industry was inundated with myriad demands. In what can be termed as a step further, private security guards in the country will now get trained in close combat along the lines [...]

A “Training of Trainers” for 40 trainers from Tamil Nadu Commando Force (TNCF), Special Task Force (STF) and Tamil Nadu Police Academy (TNPA) on unarmed combat, “Krav Maga” was conducted at Tamil Nadu Police Academy (23.03.09 to 27.03.09) by the New Delhi based Ultimate Tactical & Combat Pvt. Ltd. The 40 hours duration “Fighter 1″ [...]

Devesh K. Pandey NEW DELHI: The Delhi police have set up a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team as part of their renewed counter-terror measures. Created some months ago in the wake of the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai, the team has been participating in mock security drills being carried out in the city as [...]

New Delhi has India’s highest frequency of crimes against women, including rape, but the females are fighting back.’ The police say the number of attacks is declining, but there are still hundreds of cases every year. New Delhi has long been considered India’s crime capital. Over 1,000 rape and assault cases were reported there last [...]

June 12, 09 By V. Vishwanath If there is one martial arts that does not require perfect fitness, upper body strength, and ability to learn complex nitty gritties, it is Krav Maga. The Israeli based technique is useful under a sudden violent attack and stressful attack when our minds shut down. Krav maga is a [...]

Manoj Sharma New Delhi, June 27, 2009 Israeli self-defence The setting is somewhat similar at Ultimate Tactical and Combat studio in Saket. It offers Krav Maga – an Israeli form of self-defence and combat tactics – training, engaging young women, clad in black, in hand-to-hand combats. In Saket, portraits of the famed Israeli Krav Maga [...]

Vicky Kapoor, director and chief instructor of the Krav Maga India, an organisation that teaches the Israeli self-defence form, says that “anybody from five to 55 can learn the moves if they aren’t suffering from serious heart or joint problems or abnormally high blood pressure”. At the organisation’s Delhi centre, older students get a separate [...]

Chennai, June 5: When under attack, there are no rules. You can bite, scratch, poke and even aim a kick on the groin — absolutely anything to get away in one piece. These are the instructions given by experts from the Krav Maga federation to students and young professionals planning to go abroad to study [...]

March 19th, 2009 Hyderabad March 18: Employees of corporate and BPO firms are learning martial arts such as Krav Maga of Israel and Ninjutsu of Japan to deal with possible terror attacks. Security personnel of information technology companies are also picking up Krav Maga, which has become popular among police forces across the world. Increasing [...]

Deccan Chronicle Newspaper 6th, Jan, 2009 By Asit Jolly Chandigarh Recently “handicapped” by a High Court order significantly scaling down the number of security men and vehicles deployed to protect top politicians and bureaucrats, the Punjab police is now seeking to better its anti-terrorist skills by re-training its commandos in advanced martial arts and equipping [...]

With terrorists getting bolder and carrying out audacious attacks in Mumbai and Lahore, the Special Protection Group (SPG), established in 1985 after the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi, is training in Krav Maga, a martial art devised by the Israeli Army for hand-to-hand combat. New Delhi: They are representatives of the people, for the [...]

MUMBAI: In continuation with its ‘De Taali’ campaign, BIG 92.7 FM’s, Delhi Station organized a special ‘Self-Defense’ training for the women of this city on 18 March 09 at ‘World Of Wonders’, Noida. Special trainers from the prestigious ‘Krav Maga’ organistaion joined BIG FM to impart ‘self-defense’ techniques. Along with the enthusiast participants and trainers, [...]

Self-defence techniques learnt in a dojo can prove useless in a street fight. This is the first thing Vicky Kapoor tells anyone flaunting his titles in martial arts. Street fights are not governed by rules. While you tackle two attackers, three other s may suddenly show up and rain blows on you. Trained in many [...]

In the context of Woman’s Day, the article introduces KravMaga as a self defense system for women with average fitness. Also some tips on handling eve teasing and travelling alone. Kungumam has emerged as the top-selling Tamil weekly magazine.