Archive for December, 2009

Merry Christmas and Happy new year everybody. Have a safe happy holiday and we look forward to seeing everybody back in 2010.

Yes this Sunday at 10am we have our Senjo for 2009. Doors open at 9:30am. Grading starts at 10am at Riccarton 66b Wharenui Rd.
Due to so much happening at the moment I will endeavour to get some write ups and photos on the past Panther grading, fight night, seminars and Senjo on the blog next week.

Thanks to everybody who supported the Matt Ball seminars in the weekend and those who put it together. I know everybody found them very informative and certainly made as look at certain skills from a different point of view, especially the systema skills. We can look forward to seeing Matt again next year. We are also currently looking at more seminars early next year with other highly skilled instructors so keep an eye out on the web site.

Yes we have a group who have organised bringing over Matthew Ball from Melbourne on the weekend of 4/5/6 December.
Matthew started training in Systema via Alex Kostic at a 4-day training camp. Since then Matthew has travelled to Serbia to train with Alex and has brought Alex back to Australia for 3 weeks of intense workshops. He has also trained with other top Systema exponents including Martin Wheeler and Andre Bisaz.
Matthew has always continued to increase his knowledge, training locally with the likes of “John” Wayne Parr & Kostya Tszyu and overseas, in Taiwan, at the Shaolin Temple in China, Japan, Serbia, The Czech Republic, Hong Kong and has trained in Thailand regularly over the last 17 years. Some of you will know Matthew as the person who organizes the Thailand tours for BJMA which we have been going on for the last couple of years. Keep an eye out at your club for posters and info on how you can register for this event. Numbers are limited.