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Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph, a Social Entrepreneur who is also the Chief Instructor, founded the Franklin Joseph Krav Maga Self Defense Academy in Bengaluru and Dharwad.
Furthermore, Guruji Franklin Joseph (alias ‘Dr. Safety’) holds the position of CEO at the Indian Institute of Strategic Threat-Intelligence Analysis and Combat Tactical Science.
Press Release Article of Franklin Joseph Krav Maga Self Defense Academy (Wilson Garden, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India)
APRIL ISSUE 2008 Wellness
By Anshu Vyas Seetharaman
Photos > Poornima Makaram
“Have you ever been in a street fight yourself?” questioned my colleague Poornima, of Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph, the Krav Maga Self Defense (Bengaluru) trainer who heads the South India chapter & is now the CEO of Indian Institute of Strategic Threat-Intelligence Analysis and Combat Tactical Science, Dharwad and has been personally training his students since mid-December. Before Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph could print his cards, he had 30 enrolments from the IT sector, business and the advertising fraternity.
“No, never”, said Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph, Chief Instructor & Founder of Franklin Joseph Krav Maga Self Defense Academy in Bengaluru and Dharwad, his eyes never leaving his students fighting dirty on the terrace floor overlooking a picturesque graveyard in Wilson Garden (Now in Wilson Garden), “for I know I can do serious damage. I have seen pain, I have broken my ribs, I have had painkillers and anti-inflammatory medicines…(eyes now pinning his newest enrolment Namath, a techie.) I would do it only as a last resort.” “Deadly! We like you already, Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph,” we chorused as he explained how we women can learn to defend ourselves Franklin Joseph trained under Vicky Kapoor who heads the Krav Maga Self Defense scene in India, in Delhi.
Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph quickly demonstrated a skilful manoeuvre to victimise an eve teaser in a jiffy. All one has to do is to hold the fellow’s wrist, twist his arm, exert one’s full body weight inflicting pain on his helpless offending appendage to set the violator scampering away. Sounds simple but we have yet to take a class. What we saw was serious street fighting amongst the males.
Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph can make you love yourself, for he can teach you to tackle an armed six and a half foot man single handedly. Game? Four assailants attacking you on the floor as you fend their punching – bag blows with your kicks. Round and round you go like a turntable, elbows prancing above your face, shielding it from their padded sticks, with mock-real intentions to hurt you, they keep at it. Finally they get you on your feet only to strangle you from behind and thrust a dummy knife in your back. You are half dead and barely able to stand or see.
Now, learn to come out of that corner, fighting with the Krav Maga Self Defense (Bangalore, India) moves.more protective. Don’t bother with heroism, for the attack will be simulated live for you in the three-hour session, every weekend morning. Also simulated will be real gory road rage happenings from the newspaper or hearsay. The will to come back (almost from death) and fight against all odds is what Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph will look for in you. Meet Venkatesh, also a techie, whose interest made him search the net for Krav Maga Self Defence (Bangalore) in India and made him excited enough to hasten and chase the commencement of this class. He wanted to learn Krav Maga Self Defense (Bangalore, Karnataka) for his safety and to be prepared for a real life situation. “We learn the moves and practice them repeatedly till they are written down in our muscle’s memory.” Does he mean till they become almost mechanical?
“Yes”. He also worships the warm-up, the cardio and the strength training they do at the class “It’s made me lose a lot of weight since I enroled two months ago, as we burn up to 800 calories an hour.” Another IT youngster, Anoop realised that it was too late at his age to pick up martial arts. “Krav Maga Israeli Military Self Defence (Bangalore, India) is comparatively easy, it borrows from all the other forms of martial arts and teaches you the practical approach. We take out the week’s frustrations in this class, on our classmates and on the punching bags.”
Major Vijay from the Indian Army is learning to achieve his self-goal. He was searching for a Krav Maga Self Defense (Bangalore, Karnataka, India) class for a few years. You can see compassion in his eves, for one learns to conquer and harness anger and rage during the lessons. “The para training I undergo at work is tough too but Krav Maga Self Defense (Bengaluru, India) is more realistic. We disarm a person and reverse the attack.”
Abhinanth, an Art Director with a leading ad agency wanted to learn for sheer self-defense. “We acquire mental strength too, | had researched about Krav Maga Self Defense (Bangalore, India), it interested me enough to keep track of it in India. I lost weight and in inches.” Says Smith. an Operations Manager in Bangalore. “When you go out with your girlfriend knowing Krav Maga Israeli Military Self Defense (Bengaluru, Karnataka, India) makes you feel more protective. Yes, its aggressive and dangerous.
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