{"id":91262,"date":"2023-10-28T20:37:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T15:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=91262"},"modified":"2023-10-28T20:37:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T15:07:01","slug":"braving-all-odds-maharashtras-ramchandra-badak-bags-gold-in-goa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=91262","title":{"rendered":"Braving all odds, Maharashtra\u2019s Ramchandra Badak Bags Gold in Goa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Goa Khabar:<\/strong>\u00a0Maharashtra\u2019s Ramchandra Badak\u2019s parents\u2019 determination to help him pursue his love for martial arts bore fruit on Friday night when the Maharashtra player clinched the gold medal in Pencak Silat Tanding Finals at the ongoing 37th National Games in Goa.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Mumbai-born was fascinated by martial arts since childhood and his father, who works as a security guard, made sure that the financial challenges never but brakes on his journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout my parents, this would not have been possible. There were times when they really struggled to purchase the uniform required to play this sport,\u201d said Badak after winning the gold.<\/p>\n

Badak tried his hand with various martial art forms before settling on Pencak Silat back in 2012. It did not take long for him to showcase his talent and take part in his first nationals in Kurukshetra, Haryana that year, where he bagged Gold. There was no looking back from there.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI excelled in Simbalam (a form of traditional martial art in India) and won three gold medals at the School Games Federation of India events. However, once I got to know more about Pencak Silat, I gave up Simbalam and focused on the latter,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The high point in his career so far arrived at the sixth edition of Asian Pencak Silat Championships in Jammu last year, where he bagged bronze.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a huge motivation for me. In a way, it helped me to prepare for this year\u2019s National Games in Goa,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n

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Next Target is to Win World Championships Gold\u201d<\/p>\n

For Ramachandra the success in Goa is already a past and he wants to focus on the upcoming World Championships scheduled to be held in Singapore in December this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, that is the main aim right now. While I am elated with my success in Goa, there is no time to be complacent but to continue with the hard work,\u201d Ramchandra said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, I have won medals in all the national events that I took part since 2012. But it will be my maiden appearance in the World Championships, and it is a different ballgame altogether. I am ready to give my absolute best,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar:\u00a0Maharashtra\u2019s Ramchandra Badak\u2019s parents\u2019 determination to help him pursue his love for martial arts bore fruit on Friday night when the Maharashtra player clinched the gold medal in Pencak Silat Tanding Finals at the ongoing 37th National Games in Goa. The 22-year-old Mumbai-born was fascinated by martial arts since childhood and his father, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":91263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-91262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91264,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91262\/revisions\/91264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}