Sponsered Kickathon

On Sunday 16th October at Manor Sports Centre, Mansfield Woodhouse 10am till 12noon.

Weapons & Grappling Course

Sunday 25th September at Joseph Whitaker, Rainworth, 1 till 3pm only £6 Weapons provided.

World Titles

On the 22nd May Adam Beniston 4th Dan travelled to Rimini in Italy to compete in the IAKSA World Kickboxing Championships, he came away with 2 World Titles in his own weight class the 67kg and in the 86kg class, he also picked up a cluster of silver and bronze medals in other categories, and one of his young students picked up a World title in the Kids semi contact kickboxing. Well done on a fantastic achievement. This brings the ABMAA tally of World titles to 9 (from Ashfield Tigers and Cobra Freestyle).

New Certificates

We are in the process of having some new certificates made up by the nice people at  Blockfoil Nottingham, they will have Goldfoil borders, and a Red foil ABMAA logo,

With the new A3 Black Belt certificates featuring a Gold Holographic border, and a Holographic Black Logo along with the official emmbosed company stamp and seals.

We hope you all like them, and that they will help to motivate you to pass your gradings, particularly the Black Belt, which we felt should be something special,

and something to treasure for years to come.

Sample Black Belt with silver Holographic logo

Next Inter-Club

Will be on Sunday 28th August at East Coast Martial Arts Centre, in Mablethorpe, at the full time ECMA Dojo, which is very big, so lets hope it has plenty of support and is as succsesfull as the previous two comps.

Next Inter-Club

Will be on Suday 26th June at the Kirkby Festival Hall Leisure Centre, and will be hosted by the Ashfield Dragons, door open at 1.15pm for registration, competition starts at 2pm.

ABMAA Inter-Club

The Inter-Club went great, lots of exciting fights, everyone enjoyed themselves, no injuries (will nothing serious), results are now on the Results page, and Pictures have been added to the Competition Pictures page, if anyone has any pictures of the Junior -130cm and Junior -150cm points winners please email them to me at abmaa@hotmail.co.uk so I can upload them, (I was too busy refereeing the Light Continuouse at the time to take any pictures). Well Done everyone that took part, great effort and sportsmanship from everyone, made a great atmosphere.  The next Inter-club will be in late June with the Ashfield Dragons, details to follow.

ABMAA Inter-Club Competition

Aimed at Beginners, on Sunday 15th May at Joseph Whitaker, Rainworth

24 Categories

Gold – Silver – Bronze sculptured/engraved medals on ribbons

Semi Contact Points

Kids

1. -130cm Boys & Girls   2. -150cm Boys   3. -150cm Girls   4. +150cm Boys   5. +150cm Girls

Adults Novice Intermediate (8th to 4th+ Kyu)

6. Ladies Open Weight   7. Men -70kg   8. Men -80kg   9. Men +80kg

Adults Advanced (3rd Kyu Up)

10. Ladies Open Weight   11. Men -70kg   12. Men -80kg   13. Men +80kg   14. Masters Over 36 years old

Light Contact Continuous

Kids

15. -130cm Boys & Girls   16. -150cm Boys   17. -150cm Girls   18. +150cm Boys   19. +150cm Girls

Adults

20. Men -70kg      21. Men -80kg      22. Men +80kg

Forms

23. Adult Open Hand Forms   24. Kids Open Hand Forms

Entry £8 per category before 9th may or £10 per category on Day

Spectators over 16 years £3.00,   Under 16 years £2.00,   Under 5′s Free

Saturday 9th April

Anyone going from Mansfield area, we are all meeting at the Badger Box pub on Derby Road, Kirkby at 7.50am for 8am start

If you need a ride call Phil on 07707 64 22 11

Chris Boughey seminar

Well done to everyone that took part in the charity seminar, we had 45 students training, and managed to raise £350 for the Genesis Appeal for Breast Cancer, as well as having a really great training session. It was hard work at times, and everyone worked a good sweat up, but everyone really enjoyed it, and we all learned something. I have uploaded some pictures to the Gallery and will upload more soon, if anyone else has any pictures email them to me and I’ll add them, a report will be sent to the local paper on Monday.

One again THANKS to everyone.