CARISMA demo at Olympiad 2009 week end

CARISMA took part to a sport demonstration organised by Cambridge City Council at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge.  Six of us prepared and performed a half an hour demonstration that shows some aspects of our training: regimental training, pair training, different styles of sparring and Multicombat for street fighting.

The resulting demonstration was good although the light and the position of the camera affected the quality of the foootage we managed to capture. I am pleased with the overall result:

I would like to thank personally and on behalf of the whole club for the effort and hard work that all members put in this project that are: Georgios, Heley, James, Robin, Rosie and myself. A special thank you for Caroline who assisted us there and was presenting and commenting our show.

CARISMA official video

CARISMA recently commissioned the production of a short clip that represents the essence of its training and spirit. BCTODAY, a professional agency specialized in video production based in Turin (Italy) was selected for this job given the professional experience I had with them during one of my previous jobs.

The result is stunning and I am very pleased of it.  Any comment to this post will be highly appreciated.

Many thanks from me personally and on behalf of the whole club for the effort and hard work all members put in this project.  Special thanks to Piero Masi (cameraman) and Stefano Giovannini (director of photography who actually did the filming following Piero’s suggestions) who flew to Cambridge for a day, spent many hours in Adembrooks hospital as Piero’s suffered of a kidney colic in the middle of the night and still managed to deliver some amazing work. Also a big thank to Emanuele Mercadante for the great editing work.

10 Years Celebration

CARISMA 10th Anniversary

CARISMA 10th Anniversary

I would like to thank personally the over 30 people that took part to the celebration of the 10th anniversary of CARISMA on Sat 20 June.

Starting at 3PM the party went on till late evening with a few guests that resisted all the way to the early Sunday morning 🙂

Some pictures of the events are availabile at this page and others will be added at a later stage under the tag BBQ.

A short clip with some of the relevant moments of the events is here:

And finally, as a tradition from previous years I’ll add for those interested in statistics what 24 actived eater and drinkers managed to consume on that day:

  • 2 Kg of Lamb
  • 3 Kg of chicken,
  • 7 Kg of beef
  • 1 Kg of Salmon
  • 4 Kg of fruit
  • 3 Kg of bread
  • undisclosed amounts of olives, dips and other nibbles
  • 2 cakes
  • 6 litres of coke
  • 2 litres of chardonnay
  • 2 litres of merlot-cabernet savignon
  • 6.75 litres of cava
  • 37 litres of beer
  • over 1 litre of palinka
  • some water and coffee