Mumbai, August 04: Veteran karate coach and administrator Vispy Kapadia will guide a seven-member Indian team in the first Asian Martial Arts Games in Bangkok.
The seven-member team is leaving tonight for Bangkok to take part in the karate event to be held from August 6-9, Kapadia, a seventh degree Black Belt in martial arts, told reporters after being felicitated here last night.
The Asian Martial Arts Games, promoted by the Olympic Council of Asia, is being held in the Thai capital from August 1, and 44 countries will take part in nine disciplines including karate, kungfu, taekwondo and judo.
Kapadia, who is now the president of the official Maharashtra state body for karate MKA, was honoured by the state association for having won the Maharashtra state government award for coaching ‘Utkursht Kreeda Marg Darshak Puraskar’.
–PTI