Swindon Kickboxing

Introducing our NEW Beginners class. The beginners class is designed to introduce the basics of Kickboxing to new students and help them on their road to becoming a Black Belt. You will learn all you need to know up to your first 3 belts, so that you can train in any of our classes with confidence and fit straight into the class without having to worry that you do not know what you are doing.

Starts Wednesday 1st February 6.45-7.30

Referrals

To our current members, if you introduce a new member to this class please make sure they make us aware of this and we will give you a £20 referral award if they join up.

To new members, if you introduce someone to training and they join up, we will also give you a £20 referral award.

Six members of Swindon Martial Arts Centre entered the WUMA British Championships, fighting for the first time was Kiera Lucas in the -125cm division won her first match but narrowly lost her second by 1 point. In the same division was Spencer O'Grady, son of Jason, head coach for Swindon Martial Arts Centre. Spencer won all 4 fights scoring no less than 12 hard to get head kicks winning him the category and making him British champion. Lucas Dancey was on next in the -145cm section, Lucas was to eager to score and unfortunately got picked off in his haste to score but will learn a lot from this fight. In the adults Warren Baldwin made easy work of the Black Belt lightweight division, Steve Phelps and Bea Drake did excellent work fighting for the first time both winning there first matches but coming unstuck in the finals against more experienced people in the finals but well deserved silvers for the first comp. Katie Cox made it a double Gold by winning the Korean forms and the ladies section.

Thomas Banks was picked to compete in this years Junior WAKO European championships held in Italy, He beat hist first 2 opponents from Czech Republic and Hungary to reach the Semi Finals where he was beat in a very close match to the eventual winner from the host country Italy.

Swindon Martial Arts Centre Instructors were picked by to represent Great Britain at this years WAKO (World amateur Kickboxing organisation) world championships held in Dublin Ireland. Jason O'Grady and Andy Dunn trained hard twice a day for 2 months, up first was Jason who was actually a replacement fighter and was actually fighting in a weight category 3 above his normal weight. Former World champion Jason who put on over a stone in weight matched his opponent Primmos from Slovenia in the first 2 rounds but was 4 points down with 30 seconds to go in the third and final round, he pulled it back level but dropped a point with just 2 seconds to go finishing the dream, this will probably be Jason's last time competing internationally. Andy was drawn against an Austrian first and was always in control winning every round, next he was drawn against Kiril Petrov of Bulgaria this was to be a much tougher opponent however this was not to be, Andy held his distance perfectly and picked Kiril off with multiple high scoring head kicks. In the semi Finals Andy Faced former champ Robbie Mcmenomy of the home nation Ireland, Andy kept it tight for the first 2 rounds but Robbie used his vast experience to gain a useful lead and get the lead. Team GB also entered the Team event and took second after defeating Switzerland and USA but lost to defending Champions Hungary in the semi finals.