Jukaado Academy Of Martial Arts

The Jukaado camp is a true test of body, mind and spirit. You get tested not only on your ability to train but to manage and live with any conditions you are put in to. It is training to prepare one to survive and adapt to all that is around them.  All the students trained very well especially when you consider that it was the first camp for most of them and quite a few are still nursing or recovering from some injury or the other. None of them ever gave up and kept pushing themselves to train. Even when they were woken up at 2am after a whole day of training they were all smiling and eager to train. This is Jukaado!!!! All the students are of varying fitness levels yet they all are constantly improving and getting better at their training. You do not need to be fit to train at Jukaado. What you need is a desire to train and a willingness to push yourself. The rest is our job, we will slowly but surely make you achieve a very high level of fitness.  ...

At Jukaado we maintain the age old traditions of mutual respect, discipline and decorum. We have over the years asked many students to leave immediately from our dojo and have barred them from ever coming to train with us again if they have been found breaking the basic three requirements to train in any martial art. A person who does not have control over these three principles is not fit to be trained in martial arts. We give new comers some time to settle down and understand how a class is conducted and what is expected from them. We even give them a few warnings if we feel they are here to just cause trouble rather than train but if these warnings fall on deaf ears we stop them from training at Jukaado. Training such people could be harmful for society as there is a very good chance they will misuse the knowledge that they gain. Martial arts may it be from any country requires these three basic principles or characteristics to be followed. In the olden days if a student had b...

Every class at Jukaado brings with it new learning. We try to make training interesting as well as realistic but we guarantee you will sweat and enjoy training too. The above video was just part of the training that was done by students during a class. It is always nice to have students who are ready to give their all while training.  We may train very hard but we never do compromise on our students health and well being. Each students fitness levels and progress are closely monitored and appropriate precautions are taken to ensure no injuries from training.

                                The above picture and this post is truly living testimony of the undying human spirit in all of us. We all just need to push ourselves to cross the boundaries we falsely believe to exist.  Yesterday the 25th August 2013 we saw men and women from Jukaado between the age group of 17 - 48+ run and complete their first half marathon ever. Most of them had all sorts of injuries even before they came to Jukaado and yet am sure today all of them are itching to sign up for their next marathon. At Jukaado we train to achieve the highest levels of fitness. Though we train in Unarmed Combat martial arts we do not restrict our training and go out and do everything that can be done. It is our way of achieving wholistic fitness.   Today we can stand straight and proudly say there is nothing...

If you wish to be a warrior you need to train like one.   This is always on our minds while we train or plan a training session. Training at Jukaado is multi dimensional as in we do everything that is done and there are also quite a few things we do which scares people of our training. Things like a nonstop 24 hour training or standing in front of a line of men and women who are going to punch and kick you with full power or using an iron hammer to condition the fingers and other bones of the body etc seem too crazy for most people to understand. However the results that the students training in Jukaado get are far beyond any workout out there. They do not only get fit and toned but also get super strong physically and mentally, immune to ailments, improved concentration and confidence levels, super human like endurance and pain threshold and lots more.  The above video is of a tyre workout session at our last camp. Most of the tyres are radials of a safari or sco...

Do not try this at home or anywhere on your own. The students in the video have been training regularly and are under supervision of an instructor. Training without proper guidance from a qualified instructor can result in injuring yourself as well as your partner.  In the above video students are practicing techniques of escaping / countering from restrictive holds / chokes which they were taught just a few minutes back. Learning is continuous process and we are sure the students will keep practicing and improve further. If you observe the faces of those being choked you will see how realistic the training is at Jukaado as all are experiencing a real choke to the neck and are escaping from it.  Unarmed Combat training differs from sports martial arts mainly in the aspect that unarmed combat training is training for a realistic situation on the road while as sports martial art training revolves around competition. We do not support or endorse any form of violenc...

A class at Jukaado always starts with a good warm up and stretching exercises. We have only shot bits of our full training routine during one of our classes. Every class the training varies and so does the intensity too. Some classes may be very cardio intensive the others may be technical, some may be conditioning and bag work based other classes may be sparring or realistic self defense training. This is just a video of one of our regular classes. No editing has been done to present the video in its original form.  Do not try any of the training routines on your own. Always train under supervision of a well trained and experienced instructor.                                                                                             ...

Do not try these techniques on your own at home or any where else. Always train under the supervision of a trained and experienced instructor. The students in the video are training regularly and are under the watchful eye of an instructor. This is not a preplanned video. At Jukaado we believe in showcasing realistic training videos. The students were practicing some ground work combinations which they were shown on this specific day. The video is about the students practicing and learning the combinations. It is not a tutorial of any technique or combination.  It is preferable to be on your feet in a street fight but however you could end up on the floor too. Hence we train for both situations. The students are simulating going down from a standing position during a fight and even countering an arm bar with a triangle choke. As always all the students trained well. It is nice to have a bunch of students who really wish to train and give their best in class. ...

The above video is about the 3rd session of the day at our camp. So students have already trained for 4 -5 hours before this session of bag work. Some of the new students were trying their hand at bag work for the first time. All trained well. The session started with some warm up followed by 30 minutes of shadow boxing and then we started bag work.  It was an extra workout for Prateek and Shiv as they were helping others do the bag work. Both of them were holding the bags and making others do bag work for over 45 minutes or so before they could put on the gloves for bag work. 

We are very happy with the response we have been receiving from martial artists world wide with regards to our training. It is this positive feedback from all of them that has given us the confidence to take this step of spreading Jukaado as a martial art Internationally. There have been a few martial artists particularly, who we have never met in person but they have really been there to support and promote Jukaado in as many ways as they can. We would not like to mention their names without their consent however we are sure when they read this they will know that we are very grateful for their kind words and support.  We are in conversation with people who would like to start Jukaado in their country. If things workout Jukaado will be taught in another country besides India within a few months. We are ready and open to talks with anyone who would like to start Jukaado in their country. At the moment we are looking at these few countries to begin with - Thailand, Australia, ...

The above video is taken during class. It is not a demonstration or display of any technique. The students are learning these techniques while the video is being shot so there are bound to be some mistakes. However they seem to be grasping the techniques pretty well.  It is very nice to see them all train with realistic application of force like one would encounter on the street.  Do not try these techniques on your own. You could injure yourself or your partner. 

The students had already trained for about 20 - 22 hours on the 1st and 2nd day in total and then after just a few hours of rest and an early dinner they were ready to take on the 24 hours training challenge. It should be known that neither of us had prepared for training so long nor did we ever try it before. Last camp we did 12 hours nonstop training so this camp we planned taking on the 24 hours challenge. May be next camp it will be 36 hours. All the students have trained exceptionally well and it is truly a blessing to have all of them training at Jukaado.  We started the challenge with immersing our full bodies in cold ice water. We used 200 kgs of ice and after sitting in the ice water for 10 minutes we would come out and do the kata Sanchin then go in the ice water again. Then followed a troublesome 4.5 hour trek with logs of wood on the shoulders and lots of burpees and leg raises in intervals.  We did a lot of different exercises but it was not possible to s...

What is Jukaado Burpees Crawl? We hope to create awareness about health and fitness among the general public. With that being our intention we go to public places and do Burpees. When passers by see people exercising in places where no one usually would like a mall, near a shop etc they stop to see what is happening, some come and inquire and that is when we try to talk to them about health and fitness as well as the importance of exercising.  We have started the Jukaado Burpees Crawl since last few weeks and hope to move to different parts of the city with the view to create awareness. Moreover it is a fun workout doing Burpees at public places. To make it more fun we have started the crawl at a fresh sugar cane juice shop. We come to the shop 3 times a week after a good 1.5 hours of training at class. After doing 10 Burpees we have a glass of sugarcane juice and start the next set. Today we were 16 of us and we did 5 sets that is 50 Burpees. Since we have been com...

Before we get in to this topic I feel it is important to let the readers be aware of my background or experience in this subject and then discuss the topic at length. I do not have any prior military or defense personnel training. I have been training in authentic and traditional martial arts of various countries for the last 30 years. Authentic martial arts training is the training which used to be provided to soldiers or warriors back then training in them is very close to understanding real life attack situations. Besides my extensive martial arts background I have been closely associated with providing specialized security to a number of famous personalities like film stars, sports personalities and other V.I.P's. Have also been part of setting up secure facilities from overseeing and set up of CCTV's, secure  fencing, barricades and so on. Have selected and trained employees for QRT's ( Quick Response Teams) for companies and Hotels. A QRT is a group of employees of ...

Conditioning is a very important part of our training at Jukaado. The above video is one of the variations of conditioning that we do at class. The golden rule of any conditioning process is to start slowly with softer objects or easier methods and gradually progress to more intense training methods. Always remember - Haste Makes Waste. Do not try to copy this on your own. You could injure yourself and your partner. Such training should only be attempted if you a have a clean bill of health from your doctor and are supervised and trained by an instructor who is well versed with such training methods. 

Very often we are asked these questions by new comers to our class or just by people who wish to understand as to why or how is Jukaado different from traditional martial arts besides being a combination of a few martial arts. We have great respect for all traditional martial arts and in fact most of our training procedures are from these traditional martial arts itself. There is nothing that can be better than traditional or old school training. Before we go any further we would like to make it very clear that Jukaado, its instructors or the students in no way endorse or suggest getting in to any fight or violence. We are very peaceful people who just like to train in martial arts to challenge our bodies and improve our fitness levels. Please do not try any of our suggestions if you do not train the way we do.   At Jukaado our training revolves around Close Quarter Combat or CQC.   What is Close Quarter Combat ?  In a real life attack a fight...

The above video is about a training session using tyres to train with. Tyres are a wonderful unorthodox training equipment. There are so many varying workouts that can be planned with them. Here we have just shown  a few ways that one can train with tyres. Such workouts are very good to build functional strength, speed and endurance.  We train very hard but we train wisely and are well experienced in various training procedures. Please do not watch a video and try any training routine on your own. It could lead to severe injury. Always train under the supervision of an instructor who is qualified and experienced in any form of training. 

The above video is of one of the day training sessions from camp. At the Jukaado Camps we train for a minimum 4 sessions per day. Each session would be about 2 - 3 hours at a stretch. The day session is the 2nd session of a day full of strenuous training.

The above video is of a log cutting session of about 1 hour that we did after completing a 2 hour jog. This is how we train at Jukaado. Pushing the limits of physical and mental ability beyond the normal. We had started jogging at about 5:30am and had returned back by 7:30am. The jog was out in the wilderness with some part of it along the road, some of it along trails and a bit of hiking with sets of sit ups and burpees too. After a good jog of 2 hours to come back and start chopping logs of wood for 1 hour without drinking even a sip of water this is the way one should train. Such training will build your endurance and stamina to new phenomenal heights. It may seem harsh to those who do not train this way but once you start training at Jukaado you get used to such training routines and the body begins to enjoy such challenges. Chopping dried hard wood is not easy. It takes a lot of strength and hard work. To be able to do so after having your complete energy sapped by a good jog...

                                         The Taj Falaknuma Palace. Jukaado conducted a self defense training workshop for the women staff of Taj Falaknuma Palace Hotel. It was nice to see women ready to learn to defend themselves. They were eager to learn and some were over zealous but they were all having fun while they were learning and that is what matters.    Learning how to strike with the elbow.                                      Practicing and striking with their elbow.  They received training in the simplest ways of counter attack with using the least amount of force o...

A fight in a real life situation can swing in any direction. You could also end up on the ground and have to defend yourself. With this in mind it is equally important to train in ground work just like you would train in standing and fighting.  We do not encourage or suggest students or viewers to go out and fight, this is only for the purpose of training. One should avoid fighting at all times and only use their skill if it is a question of serious bodily harm.  The above video is a practice session of ground work at the camp. There are two different techniques being practiced. One being the arm lock and the other being a neck choke.