17 good reasons to be at Summer Camp 2009

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Copyright and courtesy of Duncan Grisby 2008

Toward the end of the first training session of the Summer Camp 2009 we started chatting during cooling down and we came out with this random list of good reasons to be here:

  1. Fun
  2. Training outside
  3. More time for cosial interaction
  4. Palinka
  5. Know other members better
  6. Training outside
  7. Swimming
  8. Better weather
  9. Goulash
  10. Training away from everyday’s distractions
  11. Holiday with a bit of training
  12. Kickboxing
  13. Socializing
  14. Lots of clever people to have interesting, sometimes geeky, conversations
  15. Thermal SPA
  16. Better bonding on a personal level with some members of the club
  17. Alternative training sessions

Best wishes to those that are back in Cambridge from the Summer Camp 2009 group: Mark, Adam, Heley, Georgios, Linda, Ronnit, Wez, Chris W., Andrea and Massimo.

Beginners Course September 2009

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

September is usually a busy month so we might not have a beginners’s course in October.  If you would like to join (or you know somebody who would like to) please do it on the 17th.

If you would like to advertise our beginners course at your company or your social club please feel free to download and print our flyer at 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.

CARISMA official video

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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.

Competition in Thurston September 27

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The Combat Kickboxing Academy has recently announced a new Light Contact Continuous competition in Thurston (near Bury St. Edmund) on 27 September 2009.

All members interested in participating should notify Massimo by Email,  as soon as possible, indicating their weight, date of birth and number of fights to date.  Each participant must be prebooked and he/she will be prematched with opponents of similar weight, ability and experience in order to maximize fairness and the quality of the competition itself.

Please find enclosed the rules (directly copied from the organizer’s letter) that apply:

  • NO SPINNING BACKFIST
  • NO BACKFIST
  • NO TURNING BACKFIST
  • NO DROP SWEEPS
  • NO SPIN SWEEPS
  • NO FACE CONTACT FOR UNDER 16 YEARS OLD (HEADGUARD ONLY)
  • ALL KICKS ABOVE THE WAIST
  • BOOT TO BOOT SWEEPS ONLY
  • NO BELTS TO BE WORN
  • LONG TROUSERS ONLY: NO SHORTS
  • SHIRTS TO BE TUCKED IN
  • GROIN GUARDS TO BE UNDER TROUSERS
  • HEAD GUARDS TO BE WORN BY ALL
  • CORNER STAFF TO BE SEATED, NO LEANING ON THE ROPES
  • ONLY 2 CORNER STAFF
  • NO ADMITTANCE TO FIGHT AREA WITHOUT A PASS: BE READY WHEN YOU ARE CALLED TO FIGHT
  • ALL BAGS TO BE LEFT IN THE WARM UP AREA
  • SHOW GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP
  • TOUCH GLOVES WITH YOUR OPPONENT
  • RESPECT TO OTHER CORNER STAFF
  • NO WARNINGS WILL BE GIVEN
    • CORNER STAFF HAVE THE CORRECT EQUIPMENT
    • WATER IN A SUITABLE SPRAYER
    • BUCKET
    • TOWEL FOR FIGHTER & THE FLOOR FOR SPILLAGES
  • LIGHT CONTINUOUS ONLY
  • EXCESSIVE CONTACT WILL RESULT IN DEDUCTED POINTS OR DISQUALIFICATION
  • DISRESPECFUL BEHAVIOUR BY CORNER STAFF FIGHTERS OR SPECTATORS WILL RESULT IN DEDUCTION OF POINTS OR DISQUALIFICATION.
  • BLOOD RULE APPLIES