Jukaado Academy Of Martial Arts

Many embark on the journey of martial arts but most of them leave it midway. Some say they lost interest, some feel it is not for them, some feel they can't be good enough or live up to the teachers expectations and lots more.  Martial arts is a path you should ideally walk all through your life. However many don't approach or get into it with that idea, understanding or discipline.  Martial arts training will test you, will at times make you feel like you are not improving or some may even feel they are useless. The repetition of techniques, the routine of training may make some feel stuck or lost. This is when one needs to pursue it more, not to prove anything to others around but just to be there for yourself and believe that you can do anything.  Martial arts training doesn't only test you but it also rewards you with health and fitness, with resilience, determination, confidence, discipline, humility and lots more.  Many times parents see their child...

Ideally everyone should train and know how to use weapons. It can be a wonderful force multiplier and equaliser especially for women when defending themselves against a stronger male attacker. However we do not live in an ideal world today.  With our fast paced urban lives, demanding so much from us at work, home and travel time etc is slowly building up frustration, anxiety and intolerance in many. This is visible in the increase in road rage cases and other squabbles over petty things. To this add the increased racism, hate and biases based on country, colour, race, caste and religion. Now with all this is it safe to train anyone and everyone in the art of weapons???? One needs a level and calm head before they are taught weapons. To judge if the student is aggressive or frustrated or has anger issues etc takes time. To start of new students in weapon training is not safe. I feel it is where an instructors moral responsibility comes into play. So many come and ask tha...

This is a question we get asked often. Some times people want quick fixes, some times they just want to show some belts or accomplishments in their life and lots more. But what is the ideal number of days, months or years that one should really give towards martial arts training, is something many don't even understand.  Everyone has different reasons for training. Parents usually join their children to get in some physical activity with other benefits like improved concentration, discipline etc. Grown ups may join to get fit, or for learning self defense, or to fullfill their desire to learn and lots more. Reasons can be many and so the time line will vary too.  If one is just looking at getting fit then maybe a few months or a year should be enough. But if staying fit and getting fitter is your goal then a few years or more would be great. If one is looking at training for self defense, I recommend a minimum 3 years, to get fairly good at it. But if it isn't prac...

In the world of most traditional martial arts there exists an organisational hierarchy built on the foundation of affiliations. A foundation which is weak and responsible for splitting and crumbling many organisations and indirectly affecting the martial arts itself.  Every organisation has a headquarters, let's assume it is in Japan. Now it has branches in many countries, let's assume India is one branch. So there will be a chief instructor for India, who is paying affiliation fees yearly to be associated with the organisation. Now other instructors under him will again pay affiliation fees for being given a city or state etc as their area to teach. In many organisations it's not just yearly affiliation fees but other things like registering a certain number of students on the website for a price, and lots more. All these costs then make instructors try more and new ways to earn money. Some even make it compulsory for all students to buy a whole training kit li...

The market in general in any industry or line of work will always cater to what we ask from it. Like we want bigger fruits and that ends up use of excessive fertilizers etc to grow bigger fruits. Similarly if parents or students keep wanting new belts then not all but many will bend to that demand and over time the belts will have no value in general. Belts are not a measure of how many months or years you have been training but a measure of how much you have grown. So just because you have been going to a class for a few years doesn't mean you should be a certain belt.  With our fast paced lives today, students are not able to dedicate the same amount of time that students a few generations before did. So that obviously slows down the growth, this itself is enough to actually slow down the belt grading process.  We are all different, we learn at different speeds, we have different preferences etc. Some may love cardio based drills, some may love sparing or some ma...

There is a debate that continues whether one should spar a lot more than practicing basics or drilling combinations or vice versa.  Different schools of thought or maybe just a personal preference of the instructor. But what is truly needed for a well balanced development of a student or practitioner in order to be able to successfully apply what was learnt in training into a real life self defense scenario? Let's look at what both these training practices bring to the table and understand what is truly needed.  In reality if one is attacked there will always be an element of surprise involved. Yes, we may read the pre attack signs and gestures, but the actual moment when an attack begins remains a mystery and a surprise. When we are attacked, the time it takes for us to process the attack and respond to it, is already much slower than the time taken to execute the attack. So we are virtually up against something that should not be able to be stopped. Any defense i...