EVENTS

MARTIAL ARTS FIGHTING CANCER 2007
FEATURING:
KRU TONY MOORE Muay Thai
CHRIS BROWN & RICHARD WILDE Jeet Kune Do / Gracie Barra
ALASTAIR HALL Kickboxing
STEVE FENWICK Shidokan Karate
DAVE McKEOWN Wing Chun
JON TILLEY Shuko Karate
and the British Thai Boxing Council Krabi Krabong display team.
link to: www.fight-cancer.co.uk

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EVENT REPORT
On Sunday 25th November the fifth ‘Martial Arts Fighting Cancer’ event took place in support of The Teenage Cancer Trust at . The usual format was followed of inviting Top class martial arts instructors to teach seminars and then selling tickets to martial artists from around the Northwest and beyond. Our guest instructors this time were Kru Tony Moore who was British, European and Hong Kong Champion of Champions in Thai Boxing and he retired undefeated in Championship bouts. Tony’s knowledge of Thai tradition and language and their relationship to Muay Thai was fascinating. However when it came to work, the pace was beyond me. The basics of the devastating style of Muay Thai were taught from guard, punch, elbow, knee and kick, it was a brilliant session. In the afternoon Chris Brown and Richard Wilde from Oldham Bull Dog Academy taught Jeet Kuhe Do grappling skills. Chris has trained constantly for twenty years with the top Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Ju Jitsu instructors and it showed, Richard was actually one of the youngest Shotokan Karate Black Belts in the country twenty years ago and has trained in many styles since. Instructor Alastair Hall , Sifu Dave McKeown and myself all took a short session to make up a compilation seminar. Kru Tony is also a Gold Sash 9th degree Instructor of Krabi Krabong the highest ranked instructor in the world outside Thailand, at lunchtime his display team did a fantastic sword display that was scary to watch never mind take part in. Also at lunch time we had a self defence display from Protea Kickboxing, a weapons display from Sifu Dave McKeown , sparring from some of Shuko Karate’s kids, and Protea’s fighters and finally as part of my 4th Dan qualification, I had a Full Contact fight between myself and Sensie Steve Fenwick. The first section was even, but as the time past my lack of fitness started to tell and the last thirty seconds was a bit ragged, within the last two seconds Steve hit me with a crushing low kick that made me collapse and unfortunately I sprained my ankle badly. Steve went on to fight one of his own fighters and also ended in casualty with a cut eye. It’s all worth it for charity though and our motto is ‘You think your tough - try fighting cancer‘. Our events are on Youtube.com under ‘Martial Arts Fighting Cancer’ and this years event will be uploaded in the next week or two. Including last Sundays event we have raised £10,000 for cancer charities, this year my own company www.dragonflygarden.co.uk took on a sponsorship role after AstraZeneca’s five years of support was cancelled. We are delighted to say Henshaw Waste management also added their support to our event. Protea Kickboxing train at Congleton Leisure Centre Thursday night 7.30pm. We train at Prestbury village hall at 8.00pm on Mondays, if you are a person of mature years who used to train in martial arts and wish to get back into training to keep fit and have fun, please get in touch through our web site at www.shukokarate.com or on 01625 501431. We also have a family class on Saturdays so get in touch.
Jon Tilley, Shuko Karate, 3rd Dan.
YOUTUBE ON LINE.
We have just uploaded our Martial arts fghting cancer promo film on to youtube and it can be viewed at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4MpynriNb4
If you haven't already bought your DVD please go to Ebay.co.uk - then key in 'Martial arts fighting cancer' - then get your hands in your pockets you stingy lot. All funds go to the teenage cancer trust.

ANOTHER BABY
Chris Allies one of our band of brothers has just become the proud father to his sixth child, samuel. It's turning into a private army as all the older kids punch like Mike Tyson

NEWS FLASH
BABY
Congratulations to our friend Sempai Steve Fenwick and his partner Kathryn on the birth of there first child Freddie. I hope Steve realises the BKK is a walk in the park compared to an 8lb 9 ounce baby in good voice.
 GRADING
Also I would like to congratulate Chris Allies on passing his 1st Kyu grading and to Simon Weir on his success in his 2nd Kyu grading.
CHRISTMAS DO
I am trying to organise our Christmas do, if everybody can make Thursday 14th December lets make it a date, Cury, Bear and Christmas cheer.

Sempai Steve Fenwick fights amateur Thai rules
I am sure Steve is much to old for this kind of thing, but he has recently had his first Muay Thai fight - he came out the winner on points against an opponent of less experience. Well done and keep that guard up.

A full link to the Shidokan UK news page is as follows http://www.shidokan.co.uk/News/20060917_02.htm
Shorai International Open Tournament Sunday 30th April, 2006
Yesterday's event was a brilliant day, mainly because we went as a team and fought with the full support of the group as a whole, which is such a help when entering competitions - particularly for the first time.
The first to fight was Charlotte Tilley, it was Charlotte's first fight and at the age of six she was very brave to enter. There were signs that Charlotte didn't know quite what to do, which is not surprising as it is a strange thing to be told to go and kick someone who has done nothing wrong. Charlotte did however start to get the hang of it and managed to score a good leading hand punch, she then landed a head round house, probably the only one in her section, but unfortunately was judged to have landed on the back of the neck which is not a scoring area, she eventually lost 4 points to 2, but well done.
Next up was Brooke Weir who fought really well pushing her opponent through the whole fight, she was up against an experienced little fighter from Brian Nelson's camp who had shown outstanding technique whilst warming up on the mat. Brooke scored two or three times and lost three points on a split decision, so it was a very close run fight it and it eventually finished 4 points to 3. Her opponent went on to the final where he went to extra time and lost by one point.
Next up were the adults, Matt Harrison once again was in his first fight and fought an eventual finals with good spirit, he found it hard to get his techniques flowing with out any warm up fights, which is one of the skills necessary for competitions and comes with practice, but even so he fought bravely and picked up a point against one of the Patel family who entered three family members and fight for our friend and Martial Arts Fighting Cancer instructors, Jamie Goulding.
Next was Simon Weir, well what can I say, he was fighting one of Brian Nelson's group and fought really well, it went to a 3-6 score line against Simon and at that point I shouted head kicks and with in two seconds, Simon scored with a head roundhouse taking it to 5-6, then with one second left on the clock Simon scored with a second head roundhouse taking him to a winning score line of 7-6. I was getting a bit of attention because I was so excited with Simon's performance - fantastic. He next fought one of the Patel family and you could tell the energy levels were dropping and he eventually lost 6-4. Immediately he was back up to fight for third place and he was tired out, he struggled to keep going but with a bit of encouragement he did do really well and when 3-5 down he seemed to score a head kick taking it to 5-5, but the shot was judged to be on the glove and with only a few seconds left it finished 3-5, but well done.
Finally, Chris Allies took to the mat, fighting one of the Patel brothers. He was sharp and aggressive, but tactically his lack of experience did show against his talented opponent. Through out the fight Chris scored points, but his adversary gradually pulled away and the scores ended up 3-7. Again I am very proud of Chris's performance, because the three brothers are a commited family and obviously take their training seriously and our fighters scored points and certainly caused problems, but I must add our congratulations to the Patel brothers who won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the category.
Finally, I would like to thank Sensei Joe Tierney for inviting us to take part and as he said on the day, every one wants to win, but taking part is a victory in its self, to win trophies is a bonus.
I would like to make a personal comment, that I do not like to see fighters running away towards the end of a fight when they are a head on points, they should be there to fight and I was glad to see a couple of fighters misjudge their negative strategy and lose their fights. I personally think this negative gamesmanship should be stopped by the sanction of disqualification - but that is just my point of view and possibly naive.

Ian Freeman shown with George Tilley

MARTIAL ARTS FIGHTING CANCER 2006
Once again this years event was supported by the Protea Kickboxers and their instructor Alastair Hall, Shidokan UK York were there with Steve Fenwick and we got great support from Dave McKeown and his Ching Wu club and Georgie Matiaha from Leek boxing club. In total we should have raised abou £1500, which includes £200 sponsorship from AstraZeneca and £200 from Henshaw's waste management and a similar amount from ZigZag GB plc. We are now approaching £8000 in total from our first 5 events.
Ian The Machine Freeman started the day as our head line instructor and showed some of the more basic ground techniques that have taken him to the pinicle of UFC and ground & pound. For kick boxers, boxers and karate fighters it can seem alien to roll on the floor, but the effectiveness of the techniques and the great instructing style of Ian can not be disputed. We can strongly recommend Ian as a guest instructor and he can be contacted at IAN FREEMAN for bookings. Ian has recently starred in a new film Sucker Punch and you can see more at http://www.suckerpunchthemovie.com - a big thank you to Ian Freeman for supporting our event!!!
After the traditional lunch time demonstrations which included the Shuko Karate Kids, Shidokan conditioning, Protea Kickboxing sparring and Leek Boxers sparring and an introduction to Wing Chun we headed into the afternoon seminars. Dave McKeown has many decades of Martial Arts training and instructing and his skill and knowledge is apparent, once again the techniques were simple and I was surprised that there were several throwing techniques, I thought it was all about finger strikes, how wrong I was. Dave is available for seminars also and can be reached at chingwu@ntlworld.com
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Dave McKeown & Ching Wu		 Finally - Georgie Matiaha took over the session, Georgie is a New Zealand Mauri and has the genetic natural size and power which combined with twenty five years of boxing experience, in which he fought for New Zealnd several times, is a bit unnerving, but luckily he is one of the most technical fighting instructors I have trained with. Once again I made an incorrect assumption that boxers just got in the ring and hit each other, where as in reality the word art is as applicable to boxing as any other martial art.
Thanks to the attending clubs and of course to this years guest instructors. It was a great day.		 Georgie Matiaha

Hi - We're back.March 2006
Many apologies for not updating the site for so long, we have a lot to update you on.
1. Firstly, we now have a new family class, with about a dozenkids and six Dads. We can not let it expand much at the moment as we need better facilities at Macclesfield leisure centre. Already the kids havelearnt a lot and we will be doing some photos / video links soon. There is a Karate tournament being run by our friend Sensei Joe Tierney on 30th April, any kids or adults who fancy it let me know.
2. Our good friend Sempai Steve Fenwick recently went to Tokyo, Japan to enter the All Japanese Shodokan Full contact Karate Tournament. At 79.5kg he entered the open weight catagory and made it through the first round against a Japanese fighter who was 119kg - which is big. Unfortunately he lost in the second round to a former World champion. Steve is a lot braver than me and deserves all our congratulations. Whilst in Japan he also took his second dan, which he did over two days in the Shidokan mountain dojo - well done Steve.
3. Also our friend Alatair Hall of Protea Kickboxing passed his 4th Dan Kickboxing under his new senior instructor Andrew Morrell 6th Dan. Well Done.
**** We are moving****
From Monday 6th June we will be training on Monday evening's at Prestbury Village Hall
at our usual time 8.00pm - 9.30p.m. for more details email SHUKO

NEW VIDEO'S
We have three new video's to watch. There is an all styles sparring night compilation, a new video for Martial arts fighting cancer 2004 and one of me smashing two 1" pine boards. Click our video link in the menu above.
Hope you enjoy them.

Happy New Year!!!
To everyone at Shuko Karate and to all our friends, Alan Cain, Andrew Manwaring, Silvio Simac, Hadyn Roberts, JJ Burnell, Steve Fenwick, Andrew Morrell, Alastair Hall, Joe Tierney, Jamie Goulding and to everyone else within the world of martial arts, all the best for 2005.
A special message to Michael Moore who's second child, Charlotte was born just before Christmas - congratulations.
We would also like to remember all the victims in south east asia who were hit by the horrendous tidal wave disaster.

SUPERSTARS CHRISTMAS 2004
Chris Allies won this years Superstars event, well done on a great performance. Equally one of our beginners came second, Rob Topalian who has only been training for three months - fantastic. Also a commendable third for our eldest fighter, John Yarwood.
Some of the highlights were several fighters managed more than 100 pressups. A fantastic 40 full push ups from Charlotte Haldane, who also notched up 100 sit ups only three months after having apendisitis. Excellent high kicks from Simon Weir. 30 pull ups from Instructor Alastair Hall who kindly joined us from Protea Kickboxing and I should mention my own 180 squat front kicks which put me in severe pain over the whole Christmas period. Other events also brought great results such as the hardest kick from Rob Topalian and the 21 slap chest pressups from John Yarwood.
Well done to you all.

 

 


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Well done to the fighters who took their winter grading.
From left to right
Rob Topalian passed 8th Kyu,
John Yarwood passed his 3rd Kyu
Matt Harrison passed his 8th Kyu
Chris Allies passed his 5th Kyu
Simon Weir passed his 6th Kyu

All of your were excellent, keep fighting.

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Martial arts fighting cancer 04 / 05
As you probably know we have a strong involvement in this charity event, and what a do it was. Alan Cain (British army), Andrew Manwaring (IABC) link, Andrew Morrell (CMAA) link and the great Silvio Simac link were all fantastic. It is hard to know whether fighters enjoy an event such as this until afterwards, but I pleased to say all the feed back has been brilliant. We have 1 hour of high quality video which is being editted at the moment, this will go on sale, probably for £10. We would like to think that everyone who came to the event may wish to buy a copy. Thanks also to Steve Fenwick and Alastair Hall and our friends and colleagues for there help in raising £947. http://www.fighting-cancer.co.uk