ABOUT US
Grandmaster Bikram S. Thapa was born on 30th March, 1973. He started his martial art journey when he was 14. Due to his dedication towards martial arts, he has been in various styles like Choi Kwang Do, Karate, Taekwon Do, Kung Fu, Kick-boxing, etc. under various masters. He is a big fan of Bruce Lee and Jackie chan. He grew up watching his movies. Bruce Lee has been a great inspiration for him. He found Choi Kwang Do as the best martial art in context of his technique. His perception about martial art got changed when he met Grandmaster Kwang Jo Choi. Grandmaster Choi is 9th degree black belt in Choi Kwang Do. He is the founder and president of Choi Kwang Do too. His flexibility, agility, performance influenced him. According to his opinion, martial art is not just for fighting but it is the way of living life. It is for improving your health, practical self defence not only with fighting but also by calming your opponent. He became very much motivational. During his learning period, from 1984 to 1991, he has been in other traditional martial arts. He is first degree black belt in Karate, Taekwon Do and 1st rank in Kung Fu. He is the only person in India who got 6th degree black belt in Choi Kwang Do by Grandmaster Kwang Jo Choi. He started practicing and teaching Choi Kwang Do since 1991. He has been Chief Instructor- Choi Kwang Do Martial Art India since 25th June, 2004. International Examiner – Choi Kwang Do Martial Art India since 25th June,2004. President – Haryana Choi Kwang Do Martial Art since 2005. Ambassador of Choi Kwang Do Martial Art of India since 29th August, 2006. Chairman/Managing Director- Choi Kwang Do Martial Art School of Education since 2007. General Secretary – Choi Kwang Do Federation of India (CFI). President – Choi Kwang Do Association of Chandigarh since 2012.
He has spreaded his roots across all over India. It was only his effort due to which Choi Kwang Do got inclusion in the calendar of School Games Federation of India in 2009. Choi Kwang Do has been successful in more than 20 states of India. He has trained more than 50000 girls in Govt. Schools of various districts of Haryana under SSA program and Govt. Colleges of Haryana. He has worked with Chandigarh Education Department by imparting training in govt. schools & colleges. He has been associated with Chandigarh Police, Punjab University, Corporate sectors (Infosys, Agilyst, Orion school of Security and Intelligence Management, Tata Business Support Service Ltd.). He is also figured in India Book of Records.
After a long span of career in martial arts, he was in the process of thinking to improvise the level of training of martial arts. Martial art has been originated from India only. Every country promotes its culture, language, etc. India is enriched with great holy culture and even foreigners also started adopting it. He took an initiative for the development of the culture. Yoga is a key to improve one’s fitness. It shows imprint of our culture. Now-a-days, it is being taught across all over the country. In keeping the view, he put Yoga Asanas in warm-up and cool-down exercises. He has put approx. 14 asanas in warm-up. Cool down exercises have been divided into two parts. First part contains 13 asanas and second part contains 27 asanas.
To improvise the level of technique, he developed more advanced techniques which he was lacking in Choi Kwang Do. The techniques are more practical for improving self defense skills and memorization of children. The techniques have been systematic according to the belt rank. He developed “Shastrang” as a new form of martial art. The concept is modern but by taking our culture along with. So, it is Indian modern martial art. The basic commands are in Sanskrit.
He was blessed with a constructive opinion of promoting martial art at every nook and corner of the country. He is on the mission to improve the standard of martial art. His motivational theories about martial art refresh the young blood those who fall in bad company and become drug addicted. His lectures molt everybody to put the life on right track.