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Competition in Thurston March 15

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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:

  • NO SPINNING BACKFIST
  • NO BACKFIST
  • NO TURNING BACKFIST
  • NO DROP SWEEPS
  • NO SPIN SWEEPS
  • NO FACE CONTACT FOR UNDER 16 YEARS OLD (HEADGUARD ONLY)
  • ALL KICKS ABOVE THE WAIST
  • BOOT TO BOOT SWEEPS ONLY
  • NO BELTS TO BE WORN
  • LONG TROUSERS ONLY: NO SHORTS
  • SHIRTS TO BE TUCKED IN
  • GROIN GUARDS TO BE UNDER TROUSERS
  • HEAD GUARDS TO BE WORN BY ALL
  • CORNER STAFF TO BE SEATED, NO LEANING ON THE ROPES
  • ONLY 2 CORNER STAFF
  • NO ADMITTANCE TO FIGHT AREA WITHOUT A PASS: BE READY WHEN YOU ARE CALLED TO FIGHT
  • ALL BAGS TO BE LEFT IN THE WARM UP AREA
  • SHOW GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP
  • TOUCH GLOVES WITH YOUR OPPONENT
  • RESPECT TO OTHER CORNER STAFF
  • NO WARNINGS WILL BE GIVEN
    • CORNER STAFF HAVE THE CORRECT EQUIPMENT
    • WATER IN A SUITABLE SPRAYER
    • BUCKET
    • TOWEL FOR FIGHTER & THE FLOOR FOR SPILLAGES
  • LIGHT CONTINUOUS ONLY
  • EXCESSIVE CONTACT WILL RESULT IN DEDUCTED POINTS OR DISQUALIFICATION
  • DISRESPECFUL BEHAVIOUR BY CORNER STAFF FIGHTERS OR SPECTATORS WILL RESULT IN DEDUCTION OF POINTS OR DISQUALIFICATION.
  • BLOOD RULE APPLYS

Club finances

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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.

Beginners Course Nov 2008

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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.

New Site for CARISMA

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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.

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