EXPERIENCE KB ROY
KARATE CLASSES

January 15, 1999

Record Number of Students Enrolled

Karate is one of the most popular self-defense systems for women in the world.

Attending karate class means you’ll be learning for 12 hours over two to three days. In the first part of the course you talk about techniques, both physical and verbal, that will help you defend yourself against an attacker.

The instructor will teach you how to avoid dangerous situations that might land you in trouble. Then they teach the basics of self-defense, what kind of postures to use and even cover using personal belongings as weapons.

In the second part of the course you learn the basic moves that you’ll be using to defend yourself. This is where you actually learn how to hit an attacker and get out of different holds. In the next part of the course you’ll actually apply that knowledge.

During the third part of the course the instructor dons a full-body protective suit and you actually get to try out some of your new moves on them. You can practice shouting at them to get away, hitting them and getting out of holds.

Benefits of learning karate ..

• Improve your physical and mental health

• Build self-esteem and strengthen your self-confidence

• Improve your academic performance by raising your level of energy, focus and concentration

• Learn and master self-defense techniques

• Make friends in the oldest karate club in Mumbai

Improvement of physical health

The obvious benefit from learning karate is the improvement of physical health. The student learns to exercise regularly several times a week, which is one of the most useful lifetime habits. This results in balancing blood pressure and circulation, lowering the cholesterol level, and reducing the number of visits to the doctor and all medical expenses. Moreover the student gets flexible muscles and joints, which increases the chances for surviving car accidents with fewer injuries when compared to a person who does not train karate.

Improvement of mental health

A little less obvious benefit from learning karate is the improvement of mental health. Imagine yourself on a beautiful beach with palm trees, or breathing the fresh mountain air while enjoying the beauty of a mountain lake. Without any psychological stress you simply feel light and your muscles relaxed – at that moment you feel the freedom to sense the beautiful things in life. Everybody has this state of mind firmly coded and permanently stored in his or her memory. After two hours of exhaustive karate workout the student feels totally spent; all muscles and the entire body get relaxed, which in turn brings back from the memory the firmly coded stress-free state of mind. This is one of the greatest gifts of Nature – a mechanism of recycling psychological stress through exercising. Whenever the student is pushed by the sensei to the limit, he uses 100% of his mental concentration just to keep going. The real benefit comes from realizing that when you commit 100% of your concentration you get results more efficiently and faster which sets you free to take on the next task at hand, to achieve more.

Building self-esteem and strengthening self-confidence

Building self-esteem and confidence is based on the fact that the students sets a goal, puts his mind on it, does whatever it takes, achieves the goal and at the end gets promoted to the next belt. In a nutshell that is the formula for success in life. The student sets a goal to become a black belt. A journey of thousand miles can be walked through step by step.The sensei splits the long-term goal into number of short-term goals – the color belts. Once the goal is set, the mind calls for behavioral changes – it shifts the attention, initiates action, and applies persistently effort in organized and disciplined manner. Progress in karate is measured with the belt ranking system. After each belt test the student receives feedback from the examiners – he learns about his strong and his week points, and receives carefully selected directions for further growth as a martial artist. Each belt is an award for a completed short-term goal that frees the mind and opens the horizon for the completion of the next goal. That is the moment when the student realizes that he managed to succeed despite the difficult odds and almost overwhelming circumstances, which in turn is the psychological food for growing confidence and self-esteem. That is the moment when the student grows more confident with his self-defense skills, when his self-esteem elevates to the awareness that:

• Goals give purpose and direction in life,

• Achievement of goals is the measure for success in life,

• Almost any goal can be achieved with a good plan, strong discipline and proper actions,

• Constructive feedback or a well-deserved award is the mechanism that brings a feeling of satisfaction and reinforces the patterns that bring success.

Learning and mastering self-defense techniques 

The psychological wealth of mastering self defense techniques is in knowing that you have whatever it takes to defend yourself whenever it is necessary, which brings a feeling of confidence and piece of mind.