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Demonstration at MAF-UK 2009

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CARISMA members at MAF-UK 2009CARISMA was recently invited to run demonstrations of Kickboxing and Multicombat at the Martial Arts Festival UK that was held in Leicester on 4 and 5 April 2009.

A  group of CARISMA members was selected to represent the club in the 3 half hour shows running on Sat 4 April.

CARISMA members at MAF-Uk 2009: the funny/martial version...A big thank you to James Bush, Heley Matthews, Robin Turner, Georgios Evengelinos James Weatherall and Zeb Pietras for their time and effort to help with the success of these demonstrations.

Please leave comments at the bottom, after having seen the video:

Competition in Thurston Mar 2009

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9 fighters, between CARISMA, CUKBS and ARUKBC, 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:

Andrea Cristofaro(*): second
Andrew Gillham: winner
Carlos Virvez(*): second
Heidi Holmes: winner
Ian Chau: second
James Waddell: winner
Nas Salmi(*): second
Robin Turner: second
Sam Goldsheider: second

(*) people at their first kickboxing competition

CARISMA fighters showed once more 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.

Please have a look at the videos:

Andrea Cristofaro

Andrew Gilham

Carlos Virvez

Heidi Holmes

Ian Chau

James Waddell

Nas Salmi

Robin Turner

Sam GoldScheider

Varsity 2009 Videos #2

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Please have a look at these two videos out of the Varsity 2009 kickboxing fights against Oxford University:
Heidi Holmes (on the right wearing vest and trousers with red stripe) v Alison Evans. Heidi fights well throghout the match although Alison has a height and reach advantage that allows her to win:

Rupert Goodway (on the right wearing black head guard) v Naoya Koda. Rupert here demonstrates superior technique and a nice repertoire of strikes managing to score many times with kicks to the head, including several axe kicks: