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WUMA European Cup : The Kelly's Get Gold!

Windrush at European Cup 2008Michael Kelly and Kelly Drewett both took on 2008 European titles on 11th May. Michael Kelly won the -85kg Novice Mens Semi Contact section in the second competition he has ever done, and Kelly Drewett won the -75kg Advanced Womens Semi-Contact and -75kg Advanced Womens Light Continous.

Lisa Haine came second in -65kg Advanced Womens Semi-Contact and second in -75kg Advanced Womens Light Continous. Darryl Jeffrey and Greg White both got seconds, Symon Willoughby got two thirds, and Stephen Wilkins one third. Click here for results table

Black Belt Grading : Results Announced!

WELL DONE to the four that attended the weekend seminar and black belt grading at the beginning of March. All of them did really, really well: and all of them passed! Neil Haine took his first dan, Louise Palmer took her second dan, Scott Kilburn and David Waller took their third dan.
Photos of the pain they went through will be online soon.

LISA TAKES ALL : Orange City International Championships, Greece

Lisa Haine won the womens advanced section at the Orange International Champtionships 2008, with 3 impressive fights and a battle of two two-minute rounds in the final to determine the winner. LISA RULES!!!

Lisa Haine, Louise Palmer and Kelly Drewett also came first in the womens teams, winning €300 between them.

Stevie Wilkins performed fantastically and got second in his advanced childrens section and the childrens team fight, and Chris Hoyles was pipped to the post and came second in his section.

WELL DONE EVERYONE!

We had a great weekend, thank you to George for the fabulous hospitality!! Thanks to Paignton Taekwondo for their constant entertainment, and to Ian, Jo and John.

Photographs in the gallery shortly.

14th Orange City, Argos, Greece : MARCH 16th-17th 2008

Windrush Kickboxing are flying out to Greece on the 14th March, to fight in the Shaolin Kung-Fu Association of Greece
14th Orange City, International Championships. Chris Hoyles, Jo Warwick, David Waller, Lisa Haine, Steven Wilkins, Heidi Wells, Louise Palmer and Kelly Drewett are all fighting in Argos 16th-17th March 2008.

CAT'S 2008 SWIMATHON FOR CANCER RESEARCH

Make sure you sponsor Catherine Nunn to swim 5 kilometres for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Click here to sponsor her online

Please sponsor Cat for Swimathon 2008 and help Marie Curie Cancer Care to make a difference to the lives of thousands of terminally ill people by providing free care from Marie Curie Nurses. cAT will be swimming 5km in the early hours of April 18th, so dig deep for this worthy cause!!

TUESDAY CLASS ANNOUNCED

Scott Kilburn will be taking a class on Tuesdays for everyone that wants more fitness and more spa-ing. The class will be held at Springfield School 7pm - 8.30pm, starting on the 8th January.

Thursdays have changed to 7.00 - 8.30pm.

All adult classes are now £5.00 per session. Childrens stay the same at £3.00 per session.

RESULTS OF THE NOVEMBER GRADING

Junior Black Belt - Stevie Wilkins

Brown Belt - Symon Willoughby

Purple Belt - Pete Preston

Blue Belt - Catherine Nunn, Richard Howe, Samuel Cross

Green Belt - Catherine Nunn

Orange Belt - Roland Bowles, Victoria Bulman, James Graham, Jordan Comley, Lewis Freshwater

Yellow Belt - Erwin Davis, Louise Edwards, Leah-Marie Long, Antony Davis

White Belt - Charlie Warren, Carrie Foggett, Molly Fletcher, Edward Henthorn, Josh Vickers, Lewis Glennie, Jack Coaley, Dan Reed, Michael Kelly

WELL DONE ALL!

CHRIS IS STILL A WINNER!

The WUMA European Championship on Sunday 11th November was a brilliant day (if not very long), with loads of fighters from all over Europe attending.

We had really good results - Chris Hoyles and Kelly Drewett took wins and are both WUMA European Champion 2007 title holders, whilst Lisa Haine, Robert Howse and Joe Warwick all narrowly missed getting titles; both making the finals and getting second in their weight categories. Photos will be online shortly.

WINDRUSH KB FACEBOOK GROUP :-)

Make sure you keep up to date with Windrush KB Club Events by joining our facebook group ... click here to find it.

BIKMA OPEN BRITISH SEMI CONTACT KICKBOXING BRITISH TITLE FIGHTS

Sunday October 28th

Fighters: Chris Hoyles, Robert Howse, Greg White, Darryl Jeffrey, Roland Bowles, Steven Wilkins

Write up: We set off with high spirits, with a couple of new fighters, in the expectation that we would be fighting light continuous in the ring. When we arrived we were initially not disappointed - the competition was well organised, with fair rules, good paramedics, we were told exactly when we were going to fight and given chance to warm up. But once in the ring the ref was in a different place than us. Most of us lost fairly, but all of us were totally battered and came out the other end of an uncontrolled, almost full-contact fight, that didn't seem to be under the control at all by the referee - with far too many KO's for "light continuous". We are gonna go back, as we enjoyed the competition, but with a different attitude! Thank you to Frank Bowen. Check out the photographs in the photo gallery

Christmas Drinks

If you are over 18 years old and a member of the club (or of WUMA for that matter), we would be pleased if you would join us for a few drinks or more ;-) on Saturday 22nd December to celebrate all things Noel. Please ask Chris or Kelly for more details.

WUMA British Open Kumite - August 19th

Well done to everyone who went to the British Open this month - we had some winners: Robert Howse got two first places in Advanced Mens Points and Roland Bowles got first place in the Novices Mens Points. Jon Izod tried his hand at Strike and Grapple and came out second place! Go to the competitions page for more results ...

BLACK BELT GRADING - SOME RESULTS!

Black Belts in Kickboxing
We can confirm that Jonathan Cliffe, Jonathan Izod and Lisa Haine passed their second dan blackbelt grading PLUS Nicola Esson, Robert Howse (aka Nobby), Carlie Barker and Jordan Petersons have all passed their Black Belt Gradings! Well done!
All five took the grading in March at WUMA Headquarters in Cheltenham, and went through a whole 2 day weekend of training, and then a gruelling 3 hours at the end; testing technique, strength, fitness, ability and heart.

 

RESULTS OF THE JUNE GRADING

The names listed below passed the relevant belts. If you are not listed, please speak to Chris.

Junior Black Belt - Luke Freshwater, Thomas Cross

Brown Belt - Stephen Wilkins, Neil Haine, Joe Warwick, Lotte Vigilante

Purple Belt - Paul Jeffery, Symon Willoughby

Green Belt - Lucy Hale, Richard Howe (double grading), Samuel Cross (double grading)

Orange Belt - Richard Howe, Kabaine Bradley (double grading), Samuel Cross

Yellow Belt - Victoria Bulman, Sophie Hale, Kabaine Bradley, Jordan Comley, Rachel Smith, James Graham (double grading), Charlene Thorn (double grading), Roland Bowles (double grading), Lewis Freshwater (double grading)

White Belt - James Graham, Charlene Thorn, Roland Bowles, Jacob Stephens, Louise Edwards, Leah-Marie Long, Lewis Freshwater

WELL DONE EVERYONE!

GOLDEN BELT PHOTOGRAPHS

I found some wicked photos of last years fights at the Golden Belt on this 'ere website:
http://www.martialartsphotos.co.uk/goldenbelt201.htm

WINDRUSH COME OUT ON TOP, CLASH OF THE DRAGONS 2007

Clash of the Dragons, Leicester 2007Windrush Kickboxing Club fought in Leicester in February to come back with 6 golds and loads of other placements, plus winning the £100 prize for the team fight.

Sharon Read gained a gold in the womens semi contact advanced section, Chris Hoyles took two golds in the mens advanced points and light continuous and Robert Howse took two in ....

Both the men and the women put in to the 'team' event to fight for a prize of £100. After a long battle with teams from the North of England, the Windrush Lads took gold - the team included Chris Hoyles, Jonny Izod and Robert Howse. WELL DONE TEAM!!!

The picture shows Windrush Kickboxing Club with Shane Varney, the organiser. Thanks to Shane and everyone that worked hard to organise the event!

PETE COMPLETED THE LONDON MARATHON!

Pete completed the London Marathon on 22nd April 2007 for the NSPCC to raise as much money as he can for a worthwhile charity.

"I started training with Chris about two years ago after kicking a twenty a day smoking habit and have recently obtained my blue belt. Kickboxing is what made me start enjoying getting fit and is part of the reason for doing the run; so within two years of quiting smoking and starting kickboxing I will be running 26 miles and 385 yards hopefully in under four hours."

WELL DONE PETE!

GRADING PASSES - November 2006

WHITE BELT
Rachel Smith, Oliver Hale, Sophie Hale, Hannah Greaves, Kabaine Bradley, Jordan Comley, Erwin Davis, Antony Davis, Vicky Bulman
YELLOW BELT
Joshua Greaves, Ruben Blackburn-Web, Richard Howe
ORANGE BELT
Lucy Hale
BLUE BELT
Symon Willoughby, Paul Jeffery, Pete Preston
PURPLE BELT
Stephen Wilkines, Lotte Vigilante
BROWN BELT
Emma Mattingley, Scott Summers, Jamie Waller, Jordan Waller, Craig Waller

WELL DONE EVERYONE!

Chris' Awards 2006

Most improved and dedicated male: Nobby (Robert) Howse

Most improved and dedicated female: Lisa Haine

Oldest member (by far) and most entertainment: Steve Ebanja

Most dedicated fighter: Jordan Peterson

Thanks to Dave Walller whose help I could not do without.

IKBKFO : Inter Club Tournament

Sunday December 10th. Great results on this competition, check the competition results page for positions.

SIX-FOOT SERIES FINALS - NOVEMBER 2006

Jon Izod, Jonathan Cliffe, Chris Hoyles and Kelly Drewett all qualified for the Six-Foot Series Final this year. Jon Izod took gold in the Mens Light Continuous, Jonathan Cliffe took gold in the Mens +80kg Semi Contact Points, Kelly Drewett got gold in Ladies Light Continuous and second in Semi Contact Points. Chris could not compete because of damaged ribs :-(

Witney WinnersWORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2006
MALTA

Chris Hoyles and Kelly Drewett (Hightower) attended the WUMA World Championships at the beginning of November this year to arrive back with 2 silvers and 4 golds in the semi-contact , light continuous and teams!

Thank you to the British WUMA team for all the organisation, and to the rest of the British Squad: the whole week was fantastic! A laugh a minute.

Chris, top right and Kelly, bottom right are pictured here with Dale, Elly, Paul, Imogen and Steve from The OFSMA.

Oxfordmail.net news story click here

Check out Timmy 2Hedz video of Malta World Championships! Click here, then go to LATEST NEWS and hit WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS VIDEO.

Chris AngelsMARCH 2006 - CHRIS' ANGELS!!!
ALL FIVE GIRLS PASSED THEIR BLACK-BELT GRADING ...

Sharon Read took her 3rd Dan, whilst Amanda Menzies, Louise Palmer, Kelly Ebanja and Kelly Drewett all passed their 1st Dan Black Belt gradings.

This was also the last Grading taken at WUMA's Head Quarters in Cheltenham, which was a bit sad in itself. The girls went through 3 and a half hours of gruelling training, and did a continuous 36 minutes (timed by Chris) consisting of jumping front kicks, followed by 10 punches, a jumping back kick and then tuck jumps. There are a few war wounds and the injuries have worsened, but after a bit of rest I'm sure they'll get by ... Thank you to WUMA and all those on the panel! TAKE A LOOK AT SOME PICTURES ... click here!

SHARON READ (AKA LARA CROFT) BECOMES GOLDEN GIRL 2005!

Sharon, and club mates, have attended each Golden Belt competition throughout 2005 in an effort to achieve enough points for a chance to fight for the Golden Belt on Sunday 7th August. Those, of each sex, with the most points in each category was given a chance to fight same-sex fighters for the top prize: a Golden Belt. After winning almost every Ladies Over 60kg competition during the year, Sharon was streaks ahead of those in her weight, and fought Grace Jenkinson, last years Golden Belt winner on the day. With a score of 11-3 Sharon put up an amazing finale, and once again took GOLD and was titled Golden Belts Ladies Overall Winner 2005! Well done Sharon!

CHRIS AND STUDENTS ARE AWARDED DANS

Chris Hoyles was awarded is 4th Dan this April, after over 24 years of training in Martial Arts. His six students that went for their black belts or second dans in mid March 2005 all received them. Jonathan Cliffe, Jonathan Izon, Edward Wazzel and Lisa Haine were awarded Black Belts. Gregory White and David Waller were awarded Second Dans. See them all on the BLACK BELT list on WUMA web site.

CHRIS BAGS 3 BRITISH TITLES !!

Chris Hoyles took 1st in three sections in the WUMA British Open Series, held in Worcester, England on the 19th of December 2004, the day after the WKB Christmas party !!!

He took gold in Advanced -85kg, Masters and Over 80kg Light-Contact Continuous.

Chris is well known for being the oldest fighter to enter the WUMA competitions, but as prooved here, is still in top form!

Sharon Read was pipped at the post and took second in Advanced Ladies, and Kelly Drewett won the Intermediate Ladies.

SHARON READ returns from Germany as Ladies -65kg WORLD CHAMPION!!!  Plus Ladies Teams champion.

Sharon took part in the WUMA World Championships in Frankfurt, Germany on the 12th and 13th of November 2004. She took 1st place in the under Ladies under 65kg - beating 2 Italians, 1 Dane, 1 German, 1 Welsh and her Squad Member from Lincoln.

Sharon also took made up a Ladies Team to represent Britain, along side Louise from Cardiff and Sharon Price from Lincoln. The three of them took gold in this also.

Windrush trio on top of the world - year 2000

Chris Hoyles won the continuous fighting light heavyweight division  Click for more information