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Sunday, August 10, 2008

India is one of the worst sufferer of terrorism, but things will go worse if common man is not prepared and vigilant enough to fight back and sensitive enough to pressurise the system to take strong steps. While doing a research on ‘terrorism and the role of civil society’, I came across Mr. Vicky Kapoor. He and his team of dedicated instructors teaches Krav Maga, an Israeli self defense system to civilians across the country. Krav Maga India has also trained units of Indian Army, paramilitary and special forces. Vicky Kapoor is the first Indian to bring Krav Maga to India.

Q. How is Krav Maga different from other self defense systems or martial arts.
Ans. Martial arts like Karate and Taekwondo are sports where as Krav Maga was initially designed for Israeli Defense Forces. Krav Maga is battle tested, street smart, based on simplest body reflexes and ever evolving system meant for life threatening situations where no rules apply.

Q. What is the goal of Krav Maga India.
Ans. We believe in spreading the message of self defense, self realisation, self confidence and patriotism. This is a new India, a young India, Indians today are assertive and confident, we need to channelise this unbridled energy through discipline into a constructive force, a force to reckon with. Every Indian should not only be able to defend him but his fellow citizens too.

Q. Don’t you believe that anti-social elements may misuse Krav Maga.
Ans. We take utmost precaution to ensure that any anti-socials cannot misuse our system, we ask the participants to provide all the proofs of their good conduct in society. Beside this we teach Civilian Krav Maga to the civilians, Civilian Krav Maga is a self defense system designed for civilians, Military Krav Maga is for security forces only and we keep it out of civilian domain to prevent any abuse. We also have customised Krav Maga system for Law Enforcement and personal protection agencies.

Q. What was your experience of training various units of security forces.
Ans. They quickly assimilated Military Krav Maga because of its simplicity, the fact that it is used by various special forces around the world in worst of the conditions and find it handy and useful.

Q. Today when Terrorism and extremism has become a house hold name, what steps should be taken by the Government include the civilians in the process of check mating the subversive elements.
Ans. The government should make military training and military service compulsory for all Indian irrespective of caste, religion and class. Even one year service can be an eye opener for all the Indian, they will witness what our soldiers face so that we breathe in freedom. It will discipline the masses and inculcate the spirit of patriotism. Krav Maga India team is ready to lend its support to fight against extremism and terrorism.

For more information on Krav Maga or Vicky Kapoor, visit www.kravmagaindia.in

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