The Combat Kickboxing Academy has recently announced a new Light Contact Continuous competition in Thurston (near Bury St. Edmund) for the 15 March 2009.
Please check details and rules on this post. Will you please let Massimo know, by Friday 20 February, your intention in participating and pay the fee of £12.00 Please notify your full name, age, weight and experience in competitions.
Spectators pay £6 if a friend or relative in interested in watching.
Following the committee meetings at the end of last year, discussing CARISMA’s finances, the committee voted to introduce grading fees from the new year. The cost per grading will increase with grade, with the breakdown of costs as follows:
• The first three gradings (white to yellow, yellow to orange, and orange to orange 2nd belt) will be priced at £10
• The next three (orange 2nd to green, green to green 2nd, and green 2nd to blue belt) will cost £20
• The last three (blue to blue 2nd, blue 2nd to brown, and brown to black belt) will cost £30
If someone takes a double grading (for example, going straight from yellow to orange second, or orange to green belt), they would only pay a single fee relative to the final grade attained (so, £10 in the first example and £20 in the second). Most other martial arts clubs charge similar or higher fees, and CARISMA remains an extremely
competitively priced club. The grading fees will apply from the next grading (March 2009).
Just a reminder of this month’s fee increase – this is £2 per month across the board.
If you pay by standing order, please make sure you have amended the amount paid to Carisma each month; if you haven’t done it in time for the February fees, please give the outstanding £2 to Massimo at the next lesson.
If you pay by chash or cheque, you can use this as an opportunity to change to the more convenient (and cheaper!) standing order option.
There won’t be a sparring session tonight as the manor community college is closed due to snow: will you please notify anybody you know to avoid extra disruption.
The Combat Kickboxing Academy has recently announced a new Light Contact Continuous competition in Thurston (near Bury St. Edmund) for the 15 March 2009.
All members interested in participating should notify Massimo by Email, as soon as possible, indicating their weight, date of birth and number of fights to date. Each participant must be prebooked and he/she will be prematched with opponents of similar weight, ability and experience in order to maximize fairness and the quality of the competition itself.
Please find enclosed the rules (directly copied from the organizer’s letter) that apply:
For all those that are super keen to get back into training and starting early with their New Year’s Resolution the first lesson of the year will be on Sunday, 4 January 2009.
The committee has been reviewing the club’s finances recently, and Carisma is overall doing very well. We are growing, slowly but steadily, and each beginners’ course brings new regular members. The existing members have been progressing well by regularly grading to higher belts and we have now 5 black belts, 2 brown, several blue and an interesting number of other medium and beginners ranks.
Our main cost centres, Kelsey Kerridge and Manor Community College, increase their rental fees on an annual basis and since October we increased the training schedule by extending our Monday lesson by an hour. In order to face these raising costs, we are pushed to increase our monthly fees by £2, starting from February 1st 2009:
We would like to invite everybody who pays by standing order to adjust their payment, starting from February, and to ensure that the payment is made on the first day of the month so it reaches us within a few days.
We thank all of our members for the continuous effort and support given to the club that keeps growing stronger, year after year.
The next beginners course will start on 18 November 2008 to run for 4 consecutive Tuesday and Thursday lessons (e.g. 18, 20, 25, 27).
As we are currently very close to a saturation point the above date could be the last beginners course we run for a while: if you are interested in joining please make sure to do so on that date.
There is no need for booking, just turn up on the day and please make sure to be there at 6pm.
CARISMA is launching today its new site/blog, based on WordPress. The new site replaces its predecessor that holds over nine years of news, events and pictures from various events that the club has organized.
The new technology used allows members of the public to browse information in a variety of ways and to leave comments to any of the posts: “the main point” – explains Massimo Gaetani, president of CARISMA and project manager of the development – “is to establish conversations with our audience, in line with Web 2.0”. He also added: “the club committee liked the new design since the first draft and the various tools available under WordPress allow us to keep the site up to date and in continuous evolution”.
The new site is organized by keeping the essential number of static pages for non changing content and streaming all news, events and other articles by grouping them in categories and tagging them: this way any user can seach information by date, category or tag.
Many thanks to Andrea Cristofaro for the graphic design and Luca Leonardi for technical assistance with WordPress, php and CSS.
Please leave your comments!!!
11 fighters, between CARISMA and CUKBS, participated in a Light Contact Competition organized by Pete Dunnet and the Combat Academy Kickboxing in Thurston (near Bury St. Edmund, Suffolk).
The overall results are extremely encouraging:
Chris Webb: winner
Luca Senatore: second (due to a penalty, excess contact)
Robin Turner: second
Aaron Lewis: second
Ollie Osunkunle (*): winner (opponent had to stop)
Rupert Goodway: second
Andrew Gillham: winner
Richard Kirkland (*): draw (one penalty)
Rosie Snajdr (*): draw
Josh Genkins (*): second
Chris Wilson (*): second
(*) indicates first time at a competition
CARISMA as usual displayed good technique, respect for the rules and professionalism. A number of coaches and masters from various clubs complimented Massimo Gaetani, head coach for CARISMA, about these qualities.
CARISMA fighters showed to have a distinct style, good technique and all those qualities that a martial artist should have by definition: even those at their first experience entered competently the tournament and stood their ground with good performance.
Follow the available videos of the fights:
