Here is a short demonstration of how to perform a hook kick to the head with the front leg:
Any comment is, as usual, highly appreciated.
How to do a hook kick
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Training on Tuesday 6 October 2009
Due to Cambridge University’s Freshers Fair Kelsey Kerridge will not be available for Tue 6 October 2009. Training will be held at the Rex Freeman hall in Chesterton Community College in Gilbert Road at the same time, 6:15 to 8:00pm.
Please see the directions below and I’ll see you all there:
Check the map here
Beginners Course October 2009
CARISMA is running a new beginners course, starting on the 20 October to run for 4 consecutive Thursday and Tuesday classes (e.g. 20, 22, 27, 29).
October is usually one of the busiest months for beginners so we might not have a beginners’s course later this year. If you would like to join (or you know somebody who would like to) please do it on the 20th, it may be the last opportunity to join us in 2009.
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 Sports Hall, Queen Anne terrace, Cambridge.
New Discounted Fees
CARISMA are pleased to announce the introduction of a new range of discounted monthly fees. These reward all members for a commitment to the club of three months up to a year with discounts equivalent to almost two free months of lessons for a full-year’s subscription!
For more details, please visit the Fees page:
https://carisma.org.uk/join/fees/
Three more victories for CARISMA
Participants at Thurston September 2009
3 victories, 1 draw and just one loss is an amazing result for the 5 fighters that entered yesterday the tournament in Bury St. Edmund:
- Heley Matthews (20), a 1st Dan black belt instructor for CARISMA and coach for the Varsity Team of the Cambridge University Kickboxing Society, managed to dominate her opponents during all of the 3 rounds.
- Andrew Gilham (26), a green second belt with several years of experience and a number of successful fights and victories in his past, managed to easily dominate his opponent on both technique and ring strategy.
- Andrea Cristofaro (37), a martial artist with many years of experience that started kick boxing early last year, also managed to impose his own technical expertise onto a less technical opponent; Andrea was at his second official fight.
- Georgios Evangelinos (30), a blue belt with less than 3 years experience, managed very well his skills and energies controlling a technically less capable but more aggressive opponent, finishing his first official fight in a draw.
- Nas Salmi (39), a green belt with 15 months experience, was fighting his second tournament although he recently suffered an injury and he was surely not at his best.
Once more an obvious observation should be made: apart from very few exceptions the average technical skill from other clubs is pretty low and CARISMA’s members even when beaten because of other reasons, always demonstrate superior technique, posture, guard and repertoire.
We would like to thank all fighters for their committment and dedication in representing CARISMA in such a tournament, Robin Turner for his precious assistance and for coaching Andrea to his victory and Linda Silvestri for her help in filming the event. We are missing Andrea’s video because of technical difficulties (two fights happening at the same time and just one camera) but please have a look at the others and leave a comment:
Best Strikes from Michael Kuhr
YouTube is full of martial arts video: nonetheless the number of decent clips about good quality kickboxing is scarce. I recently found this video and I was impressed of the quality and the rich variety of the techniques used to cause the many KO you will see. Good boxing with nice, tight guard, axe kicks, hook kicks, spinning back side kicks, quite an amazing repertoire. Any comment is, as usual, appreciated:
10 good reasons to train martial arts
I wrote some time ago on my personal blog, Martial What?, a post that lists 10 reasons to train martial arts as a good alternative to other sports and physical actitivies: I thought it would be a goood idea to share it with you, CARISMA members.
Please read 10 reasons why martial arts are an effective alternative to gym, aerobics and lifting weights and let me know what you think by leaving a comment.
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.
Training on Monday – Summer 2009
What we call the “Summer Period” is now over 🙁
Training on Monday is now back to the Manor Community College as of today 7 September 2009.
Training on Sunday – Summer 2009
What we call the “Summer Period” is now over 🙁
Training on Sunday is now back to Fenners Gallery starting from this coming Sunday 6 September.
Please remember that on Sunday we’ll run, in parallel to the usual class a grading session for those who qualify.
