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Grading September 2024

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Congratulations to everybody who did very well.

Another very successful grading session on Sunday 8 September.  1 Blue, 2 Green Second, 3 Orange Second, 5 orange and 3 yellow belts awarded to members of CARISMA and ARUKBC.
Earlier in the week we also run a separate Black Belt grading for two of our instructors, Meitar Blumenfeld and Jethro Akroyd, who spent many years do date training with us and delivered outstanding performance  in terms of technical knowledge and skill as well as fitness.
Congratulations to everyone for the great performance.

Massimo Gaetani awarded 6th Dan

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Massimo Gaetani 6th DanIt’s with great pride and pleasure that we announce our head coach and founder, Massimo Gaetani, to be awarded his 6th Dan Black Belt on the 14th on May.  Massimo received his 1st Dan in June 1989, when still training in Italy. Achieving the 6th Dan 35 years later is the result of many years of consistent and relentless dedication to training and teaching martial arts to many thousand of students during the last 25 years at CARISMA. Peter Edward, president of Kickboxing GB (formerly WAKO), awarded Massimo his 6th Dan by stating “the club is very good, all students are very good, the way the class is run is very good, everything is very good“. Massimo added: “I am honoured to receive this as a recognition of my work and efforts in practicing and teaching kickboxing and martial arts; now the counter resets and I am looking forward to my 7th Dan in 7 years”.

Grading June 2023

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Grading June 2023Another very successful grading session on Sunday 11 June.  4 green second, 3 green and 4 yellow belts awarded to members of CARISMA, ARUKBC and CUKBS. Our most senior instructor, Duncan Grisby got awarded his 3rd Dan. Congratulations to everybody who did very well.