We would like to inform everybody that the last lesson of 2008 will be on Tuesday 23 December at Kelsey Kerridge. The first session of 2009 will be on Sunday 4 December at Kelsey Kerridge.
CARISMA, its instructors and the committee wish Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all members in the hope to see you all back for a fantastic beginning in 2009.
Looking forward to start 2009 in a different way? For those who have been delaying exercise and dieting until the New Year here is the opportunity you were waiting for. CARISMA is running a new beginners course, starting on the 20th of January to run for 4 consecutives Tuesday and Thursday classes (e.g. 20, 22, 27 and 29).
If you would like to join (or you know somebody who would like to) please do it on the 20th of January: the club is very close to its full capacity and we might not run another beginners course for a while after this date.
There is no need for booking: please just turn up at 6pm at Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall, Queen Anne terrace, Cambridge.
To celebrate the completion of another successful beginners course we are going ice skating on Thursday 27 November. We will go straight after training at around 8:30pm and we expect, at the end of it, to have a drink in a place to be agreed on the day.
Bring videos and photo cameras: there will be plenty of photography and filming to do 🙂
Please join us for a night of extra fun!
The CARISMA Chrismas dinner will be held on Sunday 7 December 2008 at the Wok and Grill Restaurant, 18 High Street, Cambridge, CB2 2LP. View Larger Map
Wok and Grill is a Chinese restaurant running a rich buffet, with the option of choosing your own ingredients and having them freshly cooked for you. You can eat as much as you like for a total price of £15.80, with drinks charged on top.
Please book your place by paying a non refundable deposit of £10 to the money collector. We must confirm with the restaurant and paying the deposit by 30 November so please hurry.
The dinner will start at 7:30pm therefore the lesson and grading session will be running between 4 and 6pm.
Last Wednesday, 11 June Cambridge University Kickboxing Society (CUKBS) completed its first year under coaching and technical co-ordination by CARISMA.
CUKBS appointed CARISMA back in June 2007 with the aim of achieving better results in competitions as well as to raise the general morale and motivation of the club itself. In total there were just a handful of people from the previous year so the whole team has been put together, nearly from scratch.
All CUKBS students are trained by certified instructors from CARISMA: this ensures that all aspects of training are taken into account by pushing and challenging the talented and most experienced people while encouraging and supporting the ones that are less experienced. CUKBS is open just to Cambridge University students and staff: all members are entitled to join CARISMA at a discounted rate if they decide to complement their training. Some of CUKBS students, once they accumulated enough training hours, were entitled to grade during the latest grading session is June.
“Although the last few lessons of the Easter term saw a lower than usual attendance due to exams theoverall results were more than satisfactory” – comments Massimo Gaetani, President and Head Coach at CARISMA – “We started the first lesson of Michaelmas term with 73 people: we knew many people were there just to check around; we managed to continue until the end of the term with around 50 people that is a great success and still, during Easter term we often had sessions with around 30 people”.
CUKBS Jun 2008