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CARISMA Town vs. Gown 2012 – logistic details

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Town vs. Gown Kickboxing tournament to be held at the Manor Community College this Saturday, 18 Feb 2012.

Please check carefully this time table:

  • Fighters should be on site at 1:15pm for weighing and briefing
  • Spectators will be allowed in from 1:30pm
  • Fights will start at 2:00pm
  • There will be a 20 mins. break at 3:30pm
  • We expect the event to be finishing at 5:30pm latest

 

All tickets for presale (at £5.00 each) are available from the fighters as well as at the club.  Presale ends on Thurs 16 Feb, hurry up! Entrace at the door will cost £8.00.

Universities of Cambridge vs. Bath – December 2011

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The University of Bath kickboxing club challenged the Universities of Cambridge to a Light Contact tournament to be held in Bath on 1 December 2011.  All bouts will be pre-matched by weight, exerience and gender. The aim is to have 15 fights with a strong presence of female fighters; beginners or first time fighters will be welcome and matched accordingly.

CARISMA, the official coaching body for both universities of Cambridge, will offer its broad expertise and experienced coaches to ensure the best possible technical and fitness preparation for all participants.

All fighters from Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University interested in getting involved should contact us as soon as possible and consider a training regime of no less than three times per week from now till the event.

More information about spectators, travelling arrangements and other details will be announced here so watch this space.

Grading Dec 2010

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On Sunday 5 December 2010 we had another successful grading session.  A total of 17 members of CARISMA passed successufully their grading and were awarded a higher rank: 1 black, 1 blue second, 2 green second, 2 green, 4 orange and 6 yellow belts were awarded.

Congratulations to the individual members!

Former instructor of CARISMA win her first full contact fight

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Rebecca Strange, former member and instructor at CARISMA moved to Italy in 2007 after spending five years training and teaching with the club.

Rebecca, 32, managed to continue her training after moving to Milan and kept progressing in her skills until she was recently offered to fight in her first full bout that we won last Saturday 4 June.

Given her high standard of proficiency she was allowed to keep her original grade of 1st Kyu gained from CARISMA in 2006 and she also was offered to grade for her 1st Dan black belt that she completed over the same week end.

Rebecca was very happy for the results and she commented “I am obviously really pleased to have won my first fight here in Milan, particularly since my opponent put up a great fight. The black belt the following day was really the icing on the cake and something I have been looking forward to for a long time. However, the EU championships will be the really big test and I certainly have a lot of training to do before then!”.

Massimo Gaetani, Head Coach and founder of CARISMA added “I am very proud the complete recognition that one of our martial artist managed to receive in a different school and country: Rebecca was a promising student with lots of determination and natural talent when I first saw her in 2002 and I am delighted of her great achievements”.   Rebecca added “although I have been focussing my training more on the full-contact style recently, Massimo Gaetani and Chris Home from CARISMA take a very large part of the credit for having got me this far. No other club I’ve trained at seems to concentrate so much on the essential technical kicking skills.”

The whole of the CARISMA club will be happy to celebrate Rebecca’s achievement the very next time she’ll be visiting Cambridge that we hope will be soon.