We would like to invite every member of CARISMA to the annual General meeting to be held on the 14 July 2009. Agenda and location will be made available at a later date.
Please try your best to be there as we value your opinion as a member and as a possible candidate to relevant position in the committee.
We would like to invite every member of CARISMA and partners or one friend of choice to share with us the 10th anniversary of the club that will be celebrated on 20 June 2009 at the registered address of the club.
There will be a small charge of £10 (£5 for non drinkers: these figures are for 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.
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
CARISMA is running a new beginners course, starting on the 21 April to run for 4 consecutives Tueday and Thursday classes (e.g. 21, 23, 28, 30).
If you would like to join (or you know somebody who would like to) please do it on the 21st: the club is very close to its full capacity and we might not run another beginners course for a while after this date.
There is no need for booking: please just turn up at 6pm at Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall, Queen Anne terrace, Cambridge.
Please have a look at this video about James Waddell’s fights at the recent University Championship 2009 in Canterbury – Kent. The first half shows the semifinal against Peter Stoval (from CUKBS as well) where he wins. The second pert of the video video is the final where he gets his national title:
CARISMA has been invited to take part in two demonstrations of Kickboxing and Multicombat at the Martial Arts Festival UK that will be held in Leicester on 4 and 5 April 2009.
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 martial artists all around the country and personalities such as Alan Gibson, Gok Wan, Silvio Simac, Chris Crudelli and many others.
A small group of CARISMA member will be selected to represent the club in the 2 half hour shows to be held on Sat 4 April. 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 8am.
For those competing on Sunday 15 March and their spectators we are meeting at 8:45 at 222 Histon Road, Cambridge ready to go for 9:00am. Please be on time.
If you decide to make your way there independently you must ensure to be by 9:45am at:
Thurston Community College
Norton Road – Thurston – IP31 3PB
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Please have a look at these two videos about Heidi Holmes’ fights at the recent University Championship 2009 in Canterbury – Kent. The first video shows the 3 bouts where she wins brilliantly (first two for technical KO). The second video is the final where she gets her title:
Any comment is appreciated, as usual.
Some times at the end of those intensive lesson when everybody is pushed to the limit some of my students come to me and congratulate or thank me for how good the lesson was. Curiously this happens more often when I happen to run a “low tech” lesson with simple and immediate techniques that simply require intense and fast workout.
Kickboxing can be a hard and sweaty job: repeating many times sequences of punches and kicks at a fast pace can surely be a physically demanding task. At the same time those who feel that a good lesson should be just the one that makes you sweat profusely I suggest to go for a run, do a round of circuit training.
My main goal as a coach is surely to prepare students in most aspects of performing martial arts, including teaching and improving techniques, combinations, balance, foot work, guard, strikes, defence and so on. When sparring there are also aspects like release tension and being relaxed while having another person in front that is there to punch and kick you. In certain cases an individual gets stuck in a situation where a certain kick or punch doesn’t work or it is not as efficient as it could be. These are the times when the expert teacher or coach can really help to get things working.
To some extent when I enter more complicated areas of training, explain or practice a difficult set of combinations it seems that a smaller number of students find it useful: is it perhaps because the others don’t really grasp the full essence of the lesson?
Another very successful grading for CARISMA: 7 yellow belts, 1 orange, 1 orange second, 1 green second, 3 blue and 2 brown belts were awarded. The overall grading tests showed great committment and preparation from all participants.
Well done to everyone for the consistent effort put in it!
Grading Mar 2009
