CHENNAI: Whereas Janvi was ready for her ladies 61kg last wrestling bout towards Delhi’s Yashita within the Khelo India Youth Video games 2023 on the Rajarathinam Stadium right here, her coach Ajmer Malik gave her few recommendations on how one can shoot good photographs on a cell phone and promptly requested her to showcase what she learnt by clicking photographs of individuals round.
A couple of minutes later, the 16-year-old from Sonepat regrouped herself and completely dominated the bout to clinch the gold medal with technical superiority.
Shifting focus or multi-tasking isn’t new to Janvi as Malik’s Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Academy in Gohana encourages the gamers to do various things to chill out themselves. A typical day on the academy begins with blowing the Shaankh (shell) as a part of a meditation session and the gruelling coaching session at time ends with gamers grooving on to the most recent numbers performed by the in-house DJ on the coaching centre.
“It (DJ and dance) isn’t a each day affair, usually it’s three days every week, and all the youngsters eagerly await the DJ nights. That helps them chill out from the rigorous coaching session day in and time out, ” mentioned Malik, who has additionally formed the profession of Olympian Sonam Malik.
Janvi admits that all of them stay up for the dance periods however that isn’t what attracted her to the academy within the first place.
Her lack of curiosity in research made her farmer dad and mom search for an alternate profession choice for his or her solely daughter, they usually quickly discovered their technique to Malik’s academy — a one-of-a-kind institute that concurrently runs a tennis academy and a wrestling akhada.
There’s a cause for that — Malik, a two-time nationwide silver medallist wrestler, tried exhausting to form his son Ajay right into a world beater wrestler. However as destiny would have it, Ajay went on to develop into a junior nationwide tennis champion, regardless of coaching totally on the make-shift mud tennis courtroom constructed for him by his father.
The academy boasts of 9 tennis courts, and two normal wrestling mats, the place round 70 gamers (35 in tennis and 35 in wrestling) are at present coaching, and Malik says there’s a cut-throat competitors between the gamers of every self-discipline to raised one another.
So far as Janvi is anxious, Malik believes that she remains to be a piece in progress. “Janvi got here to me some three years again, and since then has been with me. She’s heading in the right direction so far as her progress is anxious, and will probably be a vibrant prospect within the days to come back.”