Warangal Police Set Guinness Record For Conducting Biggest Self Defence Class 

Hyderabad: Warangal police have set a new world record by conducting largest self-defence class at a single venue where 21,276 college girls and working women took part. The event was held at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and lasted 52 minutes.

The earlier record with 2,212 participants had been set at a Krav Maga lesson organised by the South American Krav Maga Federation at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 29, 2010. Krav Maga is a self-defense system developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The new record was announced after verification by representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records.

With participation of 21,276 girl students and working women, it entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 'largest self-defence class at a single venue category', the commissioner said.

"The idea was to create awareness among girl students and women about the self-defence techniques. We imparted training of 15 self-defence techniques to enable them tackle situations like chain snatching, bag snatching, how to defend oneself from eve-teasers even though the girl does not know anything about martial arts," Sudheer Babu said.