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Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph a Social Entrepreneur founded and serves as Chief Instructor of the Franklin Joseph Krav Maga Self Defense Academy in Bengaluru and Dharwad.
‘Dr. Safety’ a.k.a. Guruji Franklin Joseph is also the CEO of 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)
Leena Mudbidri – December, 21st, 2008
Krav Maga Self Defence was first presented in New Delhi five years ago, and it teaches Israelis are skilled in self-defense against armed home invasions, car thefts, muggings, and street attacks.
More than seventy-five persons have registered for the course since it was established in Bangalore, Karnataka last year.
The first of its kind in India, the anti-terror training capsule was created by Vicky Kapoor, director and head instructor of International Krav Maga Federation, India, located in New Delhi.
Bangalore: “Grenade!” shouted Guruji Franklin Joseph, Specialist & CEO of Indian Institute of Strategic Threat-Intelligence Analysis and Combat Tactical Science, Dharwad, and the group of techies, together with a homemaker and a restaurateur, raced to the ground to take shelter, rolling over to protect their bodies from the approaching explosion. Fortunately, last week’s demonstration of hostage takeover survival techniques and anti-terror training in the city was merely a simulated drill using a tennis ball for a grenade.
These Bangaloreans are becoming ready to handle actual crises by mastering the Israeli military art of Krav Maga Self Defense (Bengaluru) in Wilson Garden now in Wilson Garden. “We cannot engage in hand-to-hand combat with armed terrorists as citizens. “The least we can do is use some formal training to save our skin and learn to survive with presence of mind,” says Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph, Chief Instructor of the Franklin Joseph Krav Maga Self Defense Academy in Bengaluru and Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
“For example, if you are in a restaurant and an armed terrorist walks in and starts shooting randomly, your probability of survival are more if you throw yourself to the ground and roll away from the centre of the incident, instead of running and exposing your body to the gunman,” according to him. In the event that you are held hostage, the hostage-takeover survival module teaches you how to act appropriately and, yes, even communicate with your attacker.
Ashish Puri, product manager at Cisco Systems, says, “If I’m ever in such a situation, I know how to come out of it because my reflexes are faster, my level of alertness is higher, and the techniques I’ve learnt are practical.” Being ready is something that restaurateur and current Krav Maga Self Defense (Bengaluru) trainee Omer Basith believes in. “Who would have imagined that terrorists might attack us directly? It is now our responsibility as citizens to understand how to handle the situation.”
Safety Specialist Guruji Franklin Joseph, Chief Instructor & Founder of Franklin Joseph Krav Maga Self Defense Academy Bengaluru advises, “But better leave the real fighting to the experts!” anyway. This group’s mascot, a crow with an aerial view of the rooftop training, is unique to it. ‘Crow Maga’ is the name they give him.
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