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 ...

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 training courses to their female employees.

Krav Maga Practioner Sree Ram Often I have come across this sarcastic query, "Do martial arts really work in a street fight! Is it worth training at all!?" That may be asking like why maintain a fire brigade since it is idle most of the time. Any physical activity is beneficial in some manner.

The Hindustan Times Newspaper New Delhi, December 14, 2009 [caption id="attachment_2564" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Abay Deol learning Krav Maga"][/caption]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...

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 ...

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 ...

Krav Maga Practioner: Gaurav Mhatre Age: 22 years. Participating in a brawl with a few tough only to have myself humbled, lately, did more than enough to motivate me on building up at least some kind skills in self defense. Prior to that incident I had always ignored my physical vulnerability. And ...

Krav maga Practitioner: Dinesh Kambli Age: 30 yrs I first heard about Krav Maga from Ajit sir and Paul Devassy. I would like to thank them and the Mumbai Krav Maga team to have given me ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Krav Maga Practioner : Mr. Gaurav Shorey 14th May 2009 - Day 1 It was the journey we had awaited for the past several months, after hearing stories from Mr. Vicky Kapoor our beloved teacher (Sensei : Mentor/Teacher in Japanese) about his experiences in the land of the origin of Krav Maga, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Telegraph, Kolkata Self Defense classes to stay safe. It’s 10.30pm. You have just come out from a late show at the multiplex and you have no husband, brother or boyfriend as a chaperone. As you walk through the parking lot, you are a little nervous to see the group of boys lounging near your car... A few self-defence skills couldn’t hurt anyone in this day and age. Enter, Krav Maga. A Hebrew word that means “contact combat”, the martial art is the latest fad to hit town.

Hindustan Times Newspaper Soubhik Mitra, Hindustan Times Mumbai, January 28, 2009 Through the week, Satish Nair helps software developers make user-friendly programmes for the bank he works with. On the weekend, the 33-year-old business analyst learns how to duck from a flying grenade and defend himself from hoodlums as part of his Krav Maga lessons, which teach the Israeli hand-to-hand combat art.

The Sunday Indian :: Website On the night of November 26, when terrorists stormed the Taj, in a room on one of the floors, there was one of India Inc’s bright young beacons lying on the floor, alive, but terrified, confused and unsure. Next to him on the floor lay others, some bleeding, others perhaps weeping… A wall away, they could hear the crack of assault rifles, the cries of victims as they crashed lifeless in corridors and rooms and the deafening sound of explosions.

Business Today Magazine Before you read on, a word of caution—this article contains fist-fighting, groin-kicking, arm-twisting and shoving. It might sound like an action sequence from a Quentin Tarantino flick, but it’s not—it’s a regular class of Krav Maga. And it’s rough stuff. A world away from jazzercise. “Krav Maga (Hebrew for ‘contact combat’) is a battle-tested Israeli system of self-defence,” says Vicky Kapoor, Regional Director, Krav Maga, India.

MyCityBuddy.com Website [caption id="attachment_2555" align="alignright" width="283" caption="mycitylogo"][/caption] That pretty much sums up what one knows about this new martial art form. But it seems to be the latest buzz, everybody wants to do it, everyone else is opening up a Krav Maga Center to train all those others who want to do it. There are reams of articles written about it and miles of TV programming on propagating it….But what is it?? Maybe the question to ask is how it helps you!

Vicky Kapoor : Training in Martial Arts is a life time of study, it depends what you are looking for. To do a system that is as complete as Krav-Maga (self-defense & combat) requires a life time of guidance.

Designation : (Director and Chief Instructor), IKMF-India Training qualifications: More than 34 years of experience in hand-to-hand combat training, Military Close Quarter Combat Tactics and specialist Law Enforcement tactics. Certified by IKMF, Israel, he became India's First Law Enforcement Instructor, SWAT Instructor, Civilian Instructor and Military Instructor. Managing Director of Ultimate ...

JagranCityPlus Newspaper If you learn Krav Maga, an Israeli system of self-defense, you can defend yourself, regardless of the size of the attacker. A hand-to-hand combat system, Krav Maga is used by armies in over 25 countries around the globe. A school has sprung in Richmond Town to teach this combat system. This type of martial art converts you into a fighter, no matter whether you are girl or a boy. Krav Maga can be of great help if you are at the verge of attack, rape or robbery.

Times of India Newspaper They Are Taking Self-Defence Lessons To Fight Attackers Sinchana B A Bangalore: The number of aggressive crimes against women in the city is on the rise, a case in point being the spate of home-alone murders. Along with strict policing and home security, self defence has also become necessary. With this view, several institutes in the city have begun self-defence classes specially tailored to suit the safety needs of women. These programmes focus on making women more alert and aware of their surroundings and impending danger. According to victims of attacks and self-defence trainers, the most common mistake that women make is to think, ‘it cannot happen to me’.

Business Standards Q&A: Vicky Kapoor, Director, International Krav Maga Federation Aabhas Sharma / New Delhi April 19, 2008 Krav Maga, a martial arts form, has recently caught the fancy of fitness freaks - from Omar Abdullah to Shweta Nanda. Aabhas Sharma asks instructor Vicky Kapoor to demystify it. How different is Krav ...

India Today Magazine Shruti Vashist April 9, 2008 In a world where professionals stay glued to their computer screens, have haphazard work timings and even more irregular food habits, a fitness regimen is mandatory, not just for physical health, but for mental well-being too. Let’s face it, though. ...

Tehelka Magazine April 2nd, 2008 The Israeli Defence Forces have a gift for the world. Sanjeev Bery takes a closer look at the spread of Krav Maga martial arts in India Israeli's Arms sales may capture the headlines, but they aren’t the nation’s only export to India. In south Delhi’s upscale Saket neighborhood, a small but growing number of residents are learning Krav Maga, the hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli Defence Forces. A big man with a gruff demeanor, Vicky Kapoor is the one responsible for bringing Krav Maga to India. He describes the martial art in clipped phrases: “Combat fighting — a system which is quick — easily retained.” Kapoor himself came to Krav Maga after decades of experience in karate, judo, and other martial arts. “What I saw was that Krav Maga is the most practical self-defence system,” he says.

Krav Maga Practitioner : Anoop Ramakrishnan March 11th, 2008 Learning KM has been one of the major decisions that I have taken in life and I can safely say that, it has been the best decision of all. One may ask, is a military based martial art relevant to a common man?? The answer is a big YES. How?? I shall tell you that. With a lot of untoward incidents happening all around us, the issue of safety has become paramount. Everyday we come across a few incidents that have resulted in loss to property or even worse, loss to life. A lot of those could have been avoided/minimized, with the knowledge of self-defense. That is where KM comes in handy, in real scenarios (more than any other martial art).

February 27th, 2008 It’s been a while since the wifey and I have started something new for our weekends, it’s called ‘Krav Maga’… the official explanation in Hebrew is contact combat. An effective, easy-to-learn, battle tested Israeli system of Self Defense & combat tactics trained in realistic scenarios with 'no rules' & muscle memory based instinctive techniques to eliminate or escape from the threat.

LiveMint Newspaper, Bangalore February 23rd, 2008 Why would an anti-Nazi combat technique be relevant to our times? The answer, in the Garden City, is Krav Maga. Make no mistake. Traditional martial arts techniques don’t prepare you for the real world. Krav maga—the Israeli hand-to-hand combat technique made famous by Hollywood actors Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie and, more recently, by Matt Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)—does. When you see Damon battle armed and unarmed attackers with lightning-fast hand movements, you see the most advanced form of krav maga in action.Now, we Bangaloreans can aspire to be Jason Bourne too.

Express India February 12, 2008 There are no second chances in real life. Concentrate on your moves,” Avi Moyal barks out as one of the students, practising in the mirrored basement of the Krav Maga centre at Saket, misses a chop. It’s part ...

Bangalore Mirror Newspaper KRAV MAGA It is an eclectic self-defence and military handto- hand combat system developed in Israel. Today, it’s become one of the most energising forms of martial arts and, therefore, fitness. Originally developed to neutralise real life situations during war time, this form has transformed into something that teaches ...

Express India January 07, 08 The International Krav Maga Federation of India (IKMF) has a Delhi chapter, headquartered in Saket. They teach the traditional Israeli form of self defense, developed by their armed forces. Recently, the IKMF has introduced a three-month capsule course called Self-Defense for ...

Bangalore Mirror Newspaper January 6th, 2008 Sunday, January 6th, 2008 Shaken by the Mumbai incident, women in the city have taken up self-defense training So, the Mumbai molestation incident is grabbing headlines across the nation. But women in Bangalore are not just ranting about how sex-starved Indian men are. They are not ready to ...