Jukaado Academy Of Martial Arts

Today we will look at how should one go about defending oneself if punched on the road. Before we go ahead in explaining the technique shown in the video I would like to mention that there are many many ways to defend oneself from any particular attack and there are numerous counter attacks too. To be adept with self - defense one needs to train regularly under a proper Sensei. Lets go about seeing one of the ways to defend oneself from a punch. Say the attacker punches with his right hand. Take a step back with your right leg and block the punch with your left hand pushing it towards your right hand. As the attackers hand is being pushed by your left hand swing your right hand towards the elbow of the attackers punching hand. Take your right palm to the back of the attacker while you bend his hand with your left hand and move your body till you reach almost behind your attacker. Once you have reached behind your attacker and have his arm bent on his back you can apply pressure on ...

In today's ever increasing sedentary lifestyle compounded with high intake of junk food and soft drinks the battle against fat is common for all. Many work out for hours to maintain themselves others try all sort of diets and finally just give up. Is it so hard to loose weight? How should we go about shifting from FAT to FIT without harming our body in any way? How to train? How to select a trainer? Loosing or gaining weight is very simple. When our intake of food is more than our workout or daily activity we gain weight where as when our workout or daily activity is more than our food intake then we tend to loose weight. It is so simple yet most people and trainers with half baked knowledge complicate things. When I say less intake of food I don't and never do recommend going on any sort of diets that put certain foods or food groups out of your menu for weeks or months. Never do this as subconsciously the body starts craving for those foods and the day you feel happy with t...

We will be looking at the self - defense technique against a slashing knife attack. The most important thing to remember when one is being attacked by any weapon especially sharp edged weapons like a knife is to take appropriate distance from the attacker and block and hold the hand wielding the weapon till the attacker has been disarmed. Say you are walking down a street and the attacker suddenly pushes you and removes a knife with which he tries to slash you. As you get pushed take a few  more steps back to get sufficient distance as well as time to react to the slashing action of the knife. The attacker will surely come towards you slashing the knife. As he slashes with the knife say from his right hand, push the knife wielding hand with your right hand and then grab the hand at the wrist with your left hand. As you get hold of the hand with the knife strike with your right palm straight to the shoulder of the arm holding the knife, this will loosen the grip on the weapon. th...