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Beginners Course January 2010

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CARISMA is running a new beginners course, starting on the 19 January 2010 to run for 4 consecutive Thursday and Tuesday classes (e.g. 19, 21, 26, 28).

The club is at the moment very close to its saturation point and January is usually one of the busiest months for beginners: that means  that the following beginners’ course may be in March or later.  If you would like to join (or you know somebody who would like to) please do it on the 19th of January.

If you’d like to check our prices please look at this page.

Feel free of advertising our beginners course at your company or your social club: you can do so by downloading and printing our flyer from this page.

There is no need for booking for beginners: please just turn up at 6pm at Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall, Queen Anne terrace, Cambridge.

Drinks on Thur 12 Nov 2009

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Considering the great success of the latest beginners course we are going for a drink on Thurs 12 Nov at 8:30, after training.  We hope to be welcoming the beginners well as having the usual chat among regular members.

We are meeting at The Snug on East road (ex Vine): please come along and let us know if you are joining us.
Street View Here: google’s picture is out of date and still shows “The Vine”

Beginners Course October 2009

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CARISMA is running a new beginners course, starting on the 20 October to run for 4 consecutive Thursday and Tuesday classes (e.g. 20, 22, 27, 29).

October is usually one of the busiest months for beginners so we might not have a beginners’s course later this year.  If you would like to join (or you know somebody who would like to) please do it on the 20th, it may be the last opportunity to join us in 2009.

Feel free of advertising our beginners course at your company or your social club: you can do so by downloading and printing our flyer from this page.

There is no need for booking for beginners: please just turn up at 6pm at Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall, Queen Anne terrace, Cambridge.

Three more victories for CARISMA

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(L to R) Robin, Georgios, Andrew, Heley, Andrea, Nas, Linda and Massimo

Participants at Thurston September 2009

3 victories, 1 draw and just one loss is an amazing result for the 5 fighters that entered yesterday the tournament in Bury St. Edmund:

  • Heley Matthews (20), a 1st Dan black belt instructor for CARISMA and coach for the Varsity Team of the Cambridge University Kickboxing Society, managed to dominate her opponents during all of the 3 rounds.
  • Andrew Gilham (26), a green second belt with several years of experience and a number of successful fights and victories in his past, managed to easily dominate his opponent on both technique and ring strategy.
  • Andrea Cristofaro (37), a martial artist with many years of experience that started kick boxing early last year, also managed to impose his own technical expertise onto a less technical opponent; Andrea was at his second official fight.
  • Georgios Evangelinos (30), a blue belt with less than 3 years experience,  managed very well his skills and energies controlling a technically less capable but more aggressive opponent, finishing his first official fight in a draw.
  • Nas Salmi (39), a green belt with 15 months experience, was fighting his second tournament although he recently suffered an injury and he was surely not at his best.

Once more an obvious observation should be made: apart from very few exceptions the average technical skill from other clubs is pretty low and CARISMA’s members even when beaten because of other reasons, always demonstrate superior technique, posture, guard and repertoire.

We would like to thank all fighters for their committment and dedication in representing CARISMA in such a tournament, Robin Turner for his precious assistance and for coaching Andrea to his victory and Linda Silvestri for her help in filming the event.   We are missing Andrea’s video because of technical difficulties (two fights happening at the same time and just one camera) but please have a look at the others and leave a comment: