Archive for October, 2007

As we were away last week we are having day classes next wednesday 7th November as well.
So Freestyle will be 9:30am and Kickboxing 10:40am on Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday.

Thank you to everybody who helped out while Anna and I were away. It’s fantastic to see things have gone well, and now we are looking forward to a very busy couple of months, as we get ready for further expansion for Proactive. Remember we have our first kickboxing classes starting at Papanui tonight at 7:30pm. We also have the tigers now on a Wednesday night at 5pm at Papanui as well.
While on my travels I meet several highly skilled and ranked martial artists, some of who we will be looking at bringing over next year.
It was also a fantastic opportunity to catch up with old friends and make new ones while we were there.

Congratulations to Sensei Anna who was promoted by Kyoshi Steve to Sandan Ho at the Melbourne grading in the weekend. I will get a full write up of the week in Melbourne on the site in a couple of days.

Well done to those who graded in kickboxing last night. It was a challenging grading. The tickets have now arrived for our end of year party; so all clubs should have them for next week. We also have tickets for the next fight night on the 24 November.
Both the Panthers grading and ZDK grading are now in the afternoon with a 1pm start time because of morning classes at Riccarton. Also next week we have the start of Tigers at Papanui and the week after we have kickboxing starting at Papanui.

A new Tigers class starts at Papanui on Wednesday October the 24th. It will be every Wednesday from 5pm.

It’s grading time again in Melbourne and we have a large New Zealand contingent going over this year from both the North and South. It will be a fantastic time to catch up with friends and get some training in while we are there.

We have a new kickboxing school opening in Papanui on the 30th of October. It will be on a Tuesday and Wednesday night from 7:40pm till 8:40pm. This will complement those students who cannot make the new times at Riccarton.
It’s fantastic to see Papanui growing. Well done to those involved.

The weekend of Labour Day both Riccarton and Templeton will be closed. Riccarton will also be closed on that Saturday 20 of October.

We should have tickets available at all clubs by the 17th of October for our end of year party on Saturday 15 of December. This is going to be big, and due to the size of the room for entertainment purposes we have had to limit ticket sales to the first 150. As we have grown substantially since last years party these tickets will sell out! It’s going to be a great night with two lots of awards and games and prizes planned through out the night as well as other entertainment.

It’s been a fantastic week with the start of our full time training facility at Riccarton. I must say it’s great to be able to just turn up and train and not have to set things up. Our new grappling/MMA class has gone down well and the day classes. We are going to increase the size of or matted area next week to allow for a larger grappling area, and we should also have our club shop all set up as well. Remember we also have Saturday morning classes now as well.