Every kabaddi academy in Haryana will say more or less the same things on its website. Champion coaches, best facilities, top training. So this piece will try to not do that. It is meant for parents and young players who are actually trying to work out whether BRS Kabaddi Academy in Jhajjar is the right place to spend the next few years training.
BRS, or Brigadier Ran Singh Kabaddi Academy, is a licensed Sports Training Academy in Haryana. It trains boys and girls from across the state, some from small villages, others from towns like Rohtak and Jhajjar. The academy was set up to give serious kabaddi talent a place to train properly.
The coaching
The coaching team at BRS includes former national kabaddi players along with certified coaches. Someone who has actually raided against tough defenders at the national level teaches differently from someone who has only studied the game. Players pick up on it fast.
Training covers the usual pieces, strength, endurance, agility, speed, game strategy. What gets more time than usual is the mental side. A raider deciding whether to go for one more touch or pull back to his half has maybe half a second. You cannot coach that in the moment. The only way is to run hundreds of raids in practice until the call stops being a call and becomes reflex.
Sessions get adjusted to individual players. Raiders and defenders need different things, and even inside a single group, a hand-touch specialist and a toe-touch specialist are working on separate skills. The plan reflects that.
Facilities
Regulation kabaddi courts, indoor and outdoor. A gym and conditioning zone. Physiotherapy and rehab, which most parents underestimate the value of until their child pulls a hamstring and there is nowhere to recover properly.
The boarding house has air-conditioned rooms, meals prepared for an athlete’s nutritional needs, Wi-Fi, hot water, study areas, and round-the-clock security. Players in the academy’s Free Kabaddi Training programme get the same boarding facilities.
About the girls’ program
Women’s kabaddi has been growing quickly in India, and BRS runs a full program for girls with the same coaching staff, same facilities and same tournament exposure as the boys’ side. In Haryana in particular, where opportunities for women in sports are still uneven, having a serious training set-up specifically for girls matters, and it is one of the things the academy is genuinely building a reputation on.
The tournament pathway
This is the part most parents want to know about. BRS is working towards being recognised as a PKL Pathway Academy in India. In practical terms, that means the academy is trying to build a route for players, from local tournaments in Haryana to state and junior circuits, and eventually to the Pro Kabaddi League and international competition for those who reach that level. The coaches actively push to get their players into the right competitive events at the right stage, rather than leaving it to the player’s family to figure out on their own.
Life at the academy
BRS is not run like a casual training ground. Uniform is compulsory. Players show up on time or they hear about it. Teammates and referees are respected. Parents are asked to drop the child and leave, so that training is not disrupted. That last one annoys some parents at first, but the logic is simple, the coaches cannot really do their job with people hovering around.
Beyond the physical training there is yoga, meditation, mentorship, life skills workshops, and counselling support when a player needs it. For a young athlete living away from home for the first time, this side of the academy often matters as much as the training itself.
If you are thinking about joining
The best advice, honestly, is to just visit before you commit. Meet the coaches properly, not through a promotional walk-through. Sit and watch a full training session. See the boarding rooms. If you can, talk to a couple of current players without a coach standing next to them. And ask about the players from earlier batches and where they are now. A serious academy is comfortable answering that question.
More details on the academy are on the About Us page, and the main site is at brskabaddi.in.
Haryana has the talent. The question with any academy is whether that talent gets the coaching, the ground and the honest work it needs, and on that count BRS is worth putting on your shortlist.
