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Charity Fight Night

On Saturday the 27th June Steve travelled up to Illminster to take part in a charity fight night. The fight night was in aid of supporting hospitals neo-natal units on the South West and was a great chance for Steve to Network with other local clubs.

Steve helped judge the fights thought-out the night, which I haven’t heard how much we managed to raise. Steve also fought on the show in a points bout. Where their is no continuous fighting, going down 15-10 to specialist and expert points fighter Mark Fry from Exeter. It was a first bout for Steve as it was the first time he took part in a bout taking place in a fighting cage rather than a boxing ring or on matt’s.

21st June MAAS fight day and Satellite Promotion fight show

On Sunday 21st June, head Coach Steve Lilley 4th Dan, Andy Melville and his brother Rob Melville commuted up to Surrey to the Tolworth Recreation Centre for another MAAS fight day. Steve Lilley spent time refereeing and judging when not supporting Andy with Rob’s help in his semi-contact fight during the day. Andy put in a great performance narrowly losing to his competitor.

Head coach Steve stayed to help with Satellite Promotions evening show. Steve is one of the regular judges for their 3 evening shows run by form Kickboxing, K1 and MMA national fighter Steve Dossett and Tony Newman from Te-At-Su Back Street Dojo, both based up in Surrey.

Steve competed in a charity bout where he used short escreama sticks against Harvey Dossett armed with Nunchaku. Before later during the evening standing in at 10 minutes for a fighter who was called away as a result of a family emergency. Steve took on one of Steve Dossett’s Hersham fighters Mark Warren, for his first experience in the ring.

Were now looking forward to the next MAAS fight day and Satellite Promotions fight show in November at the Guilford Spectrum.

Afternoon training event and grading 16th August

Steve is in Talks with Mike Rowling, from South West Kickboxing about the return of the 2 clubs meeting up for a joint training and grading day. More details are to follow but here’s a little back ground into the clubs events.

Both 4th Dan Steve Lilley and 2nd Dan Mike Rowling both trained together under 9th Dan Master Gary Harrison, for a number of years before leaving his organisation and both the South West Kickboxing Academy and Martial Arts and South West Kickboxing were formed in the years from 2008. Both clubs have met and run joint sessions in the past in Tavistock, but this year the plan is to get back into hosting a joint session and this time visiting the home of South West Kickboxing Bridport way.

Steve is really excited about going up to visit South West Kickboxing and looking forward to seeing what Mike has built. We have been talking for a few years about making it a more regular session and alternating venues, which is something we will be discussing going forwards.

More details to follow.

May Student of the Month

May Student of the Month

Congratulations to Josh Pollard on winning March’s Student of the Month.

 

Josh is new to Kickboxing and only been training a few weeks. Josh’s commitment to training and trying to learn and pick up the art has impressed head coach Steve a lot. Where hoping Josh progresses on to achieve great things like his older brother Nathan.

Sparring Day in Ispwich

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.

21st June MAAS Fight day

 

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.

March Student of the Month

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.

Steve Lilley’s BKBU Progress

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.