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 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.
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.
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.
As previously annouced the Combat Kickboxing Academy has organised a Light Contact Continuous competition in Thurston (near Bury St. Edmund) for the 27 September 2009.
All members interested in participating should notify Massimo by Email, by 10 September 2009, 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.
Cost of participating to the competition is £12 to be paid in advance: visitors can pay at the door £6.
Please find enclosed the rules (directly copied from the organizer’s letter) that apply:
