Jukaado Academy Of Martial Arts

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...