Ispwich 12th July
We have been invited to a 12-5pm sparring day up in Ispwich by another MAAS club. It’s a mixed junior and adult day. You don’t have to spar all day. But could be a great day organised by Andy Thompson of the Apollo club in Ispwich.
I’m currently considering going up for the event if anyone is interested.
Steve and Andy will be attending the MAAS fight day in Surrey on the 21st June. Both will be progressing their fight careers toward title fights. Steve will also be progressing his blossoming Judging and refereeing career.
Steve will also be involved with the evening show and will possibly stepping in the ring during the evening show as a stand in if any fighters drop out on the day.
Congratulations to Nathen Pollard on winning March’s Student of the Month. There was no April Student of the month due to us only having 2 sessions. Nathen has returned to kickboxing after a break and has shown great commitment and improvements in his training. You need to watch out when training with Nathen as he can now even kick my head height.
Head coach 4th Dan Steve Lilley continues his progress towards becoming the BKBU heavy weight Semi-Contact champion. The SWKA are also in talks with Plymouth Judo club about running a Martial Arts day at Tavistock college, as a chance for people to come and try different arts and show case their skills.
Linked this we are also considering having some exhibition bouts based around one art or different arts showing their weaknesses and strengths which will be great fun. If you’d like to be a part of this let me know. There’s also talk of it being a charity event and we may have some well know National Martial Artists attend if we’re lucky.
It’s great to see some former students starting to train again more regularly and I know a few others have had personal circumstances change which are affecting their ability to train.
On Saturday 29th November Steve and Cameron both travelled to the MAAS championships at the Guildford Spectrum, as usual Steve helped with refereeing and judging at this national day event. Cameron entered the hollow square for the first time against another novice from White lotus Martial Arts in Gloucester. Cameron put on a fantastic performance looking like a natural with years of ring experience, with the way he controlled his opponent, resulting in a very comfortable and unanimous win. Head coach Steve Lilley said” Cameron’s fright was one of the best bouts on the day and one of the very best performances I’ve seen from a complete novice. The way he took contact only when he wanted it and got his opponent to place his hand where Cameron wanted his opponent to be so he could score easy points. I’m very much looking forward to see what Cameron can achieve in the ring in 2015.”
Steve also stayed for the evening show and instead of judging on the card at short notice he found himself competing on the Satellite promotions evening card. Steve hasn’t been involved in a amateur fight night event as a fighter before. 4th Dan Steve teamed up with Master Jim Cockram to take on 10th Dan Grandmaster Soke Brain Dossett, in a charity boxing match. Brian Dossett took to the ring for charity still recovering from 2 lots of major surgery in the last 8 weeks. Brain Dossett was also inducted into the International Ju Jitus Hall of Fame straight after the bout becoming one of only 9 people in the world to ever have achieved this feat.