CARISMA Summer Camp 2008

14-18 August – Csokonyavisonta, Hungary

Given the great success of the previous years’ events we decided to organize another SC in the same pleasant location: the countryside of Hungary. Location for the event is a village called Csokonyavisonta in the Somogy region, in the South East area of the country, by the Croatian border. The main aim of the SC was both training and having great time during a 6 days break.

Training was organised in the morning (apart from the Thursday, when we trained in the afternoon) just after breakfast and it included techniques and drills of Kickboxing, Multicombat, Winch Chun and Self Defence. Each session lasted two to three hours and it was a great opportunity for all particpants to both learn new techniques and training methodologies, improving at the same time overall performance of known techniques. At the end of each session we organized interesting trips to various locations in the surrounding areas, such as wine tasting in Badacsony, visit to Pecs and chilling out by the pool.

Summer Camp 2008

Summer Camp 2008

For more details of what happened check this post on
www.martialwhat.com blog.

Video for the event

Please have a look at
this page
to see some pictures of the event.

Successful end of the year for CUKBS

Last Wednesday, 11 June Cambridge University Kickboxing Society (CUKBS) completed its first year under coaching and technical co-ordination by CARISMA.

CUKBS appointed CARISMA back in June 2007 with the aim of achieving better results in competitions as well as to raise the general morale and motivation of the club itself. In total there were just a handful of people from the previous year so the whole team has been put together, nearly from scratch.

All CUKBS students are trained by certified instructors from CARISMA: this ensures that all aspects of training are taken into account by pushing and challenging the talented and most experienced people while encouraging and supporting the ones that are less experienced. CUKBS is open just to Cambridge University students and staff: all members are entitled to join CARISMA at a discounted rate if they decide to complement their training. Some of CUKBS students, once they accumulated enough training hours, were entitled to grade during the latest grading session is June.

“Although the last few lessons of the Easter term saw a lower than usual attendance due to exams theoverall results were more than satisfactory” – comments Massimo Gaetani, President and Head Coach at CARISMA – “We started the first lesson of Michaelmas term with 73 people: we knew many people were there just to check around; we managed to continue until the end of the term with around 50 people that is a great success and still, during Easter term we often had sessions with around 30 people”.

CUKBS Jun 2008

CUKBS Jun 2008