Beginners Course June 2010

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CARISMA is running a new beginners course, starting on the 17 June 2010 to run for 4 consecutive Thursday and Tuesday classes (e.g. 17, 22, 24, 29).

If you would like to join (or you know somebody who would like to) please do it on the 17th of June.

If you’d like to check our prices please look at this page.

Feel free of advertising our beginners course at your company or your social club: you can do so by downloading and printing our flyer from this page.

There is no need for booking for beginners: please just turn up at 6pm at Kelsey Kerridge.

CARISMA at The Martial Arts Show 2010

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CARISMA was invited to take part in two demonstrations of Kickboxing and Multicombat at the The Martial Arts Show that was held at the NEC in Birmingham on 22 and 23 May 2010.

TMAS, one of the most important exhibitions of martial arts in Europe, was a great celebration of all martial arts with many workshops, demonstration, competitions and exhibition stands.  CARISMA had the opportunity to run two demonstrations at TMAS so a group of members was selected to prepare and perform a short demonstration that could synthesize the whole essence of our training in just a few minutes and a handful of combinations.

Massimo Gaetani, president and Head Coach of CARISMA (in the this picture, on the left, with Kwoklyn Wan the organiser of TMAS) commented the event: “we are very pleased to have the privilege of being among the clubs running demonstration at TMAS and thanks to our joint effort we delivered a good show”

A big thank you to Georgios Evengelinos, Aaron Lewis, Marcia Spoelder for their time and effort to help with the success of these demonstrations.  A video of the event is being edited and it will be available soon.

CARISMA BBQ 2010

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We would like to invite every member of CARISMA and partners or one friend of choice to share with us the 11th anniversary of the club that will be celebrated on 12 June 2010 at the registered address of the club.

There will be a small charge of £10 (£5 for non drinkers: these figures are for active members, guests will be subject to £5 extra to the above figures) to partially cover the cost of food and drinks that will be fully provided.

Please register your interest in participating by speaking to us during the lesson or by commenting to this post.

Beginners Course May 2010

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CARISMA is running a new beginners course, starting on the 18 May 2010 to run for 4 consecutive Tuesday and Thursday classes (e.g. 18, 20, 25, 27).

If you would like to join (or you know somebody who would like to) please do it on the 18th of May.

If you’d like to check our prices please look at this page.

Feel free of advertising our beginners course at your company or your social club: you can do so by downloading and printing our flyer from this page.

There is no need for booking for beginners: please just turn up at 6pm at Kelsey Kerridge.

New committee members

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The EGM held last night saw the election of three new members of the committee.  Attending the EGM were: Laura V., Heley M., Mark N., James B., James W., Li Z., Andrea C., Georgios E., Robin T., Phil R., Rosie S. and Massimo.

The three new members of the committee are:

  • Heley M.
  • Laura V.
  • Andrea C.

Varsity 2010: winners!

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(l-r) font row: the winning team Chris Kelly, Chris Webb, Frank Gorringe and Alex Howard; back row: Sam Goldschneider (vice president), Heley Matthews (captain), Veronika Kantorivich (social organiser), Heidi Holmes (president) and Massimo Gaetani (coach)

Cambridge University Kickboxing Society won yesterday the 4th Kickboxing Varsity match vs. Oxford University Kickboxing Club for a final result of 3-1!

This was a much suffered event: until Thurs it was unsure whether we would have had an event at all and where.  When OUKC nearly gave up we managed to put together a last minute venue, get the referee to leave his family at a holiday location to come and ref the fights and even invited about 30 spectators…but it was all worth the effort.

When in 2007 the CUKBS committee at that time asked me to become their coach they put it in simple terms: “we want to win Varsity”; it was hard work, lots of sweat, it wasn’t just about teaching techniques (that’s easy) it was matter of changing completely the way they practice. After an encouraging 4-5 loss last year I can now finally say: “mission accomplished :-)”

More details, videos and so on will follow in the next few days.

Varsity 2010

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Due to a sudden change of program due to the lack of organisation of Oxford University Kickboxing Club this year’s Varsity fight will be held in Cambridge on Sunday 2 May (tomorrow!!!).  The fight will be held at the Fenner’s Gym, Gresham Road, starting at 2PM.  Spectators will be accepted just if prebooked.

CARISMA at The Martial Arts Show 2010

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CARISMA has been invited to take part in two demonstrations of Kickboxing and Multicombat at the The Martial Arts Show that will be held at the NEC in Birmingham on 22 and 23 May 2010.

The Festival will have a section with exhibitors presenting their own products and services as well as running a number of workshops and demonstrations from both national en international martial artists and personalities.

A small group of CARISMA member will be selected to represent the club in the 2 shows to be held on Sat 22 May.

Please express you interested in being part of it (minimum technical standard and rank required) or if you would like to visit.  Those intending to be part of the show should consider to be busy for the whole of Sat, leaving Cambridge at about 7:30am.