FMA in the U.K.

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Cut Above The Rest! (http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/archive/display.var.140880.0.cut_above_the_rest.php)

A Doce Pares story, focusing on Nimesh Desai and the machete.

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'Make my Day' Martial arts fighter Dave Dillon
Title holder Dave ready to join the professionals.
(http://www.leylandtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=79&ArticleID=1777558)


"I'm also going to do classes in Combat Silat, which is very much focused on self defence.

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Sticking with the family... (http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=541&ArticleID=2133362)
Dad and daughter team celebrate success (http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=541&ArticleID=2133362)


A dad-and-daughter team is celebrating after they were named British stickfighting champions once again.

Nine-year-old Tanya Thomson, who goes to Icknield Primary School, won the girls' championships for the fifth time, while her dad Stuart Husband, 44, reclaimed the men's heavy-weight veterans' title.

Stuart, who has been champion three times, said his daughter's ambition is to be the next Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Tanya and Stuart train at Luton Kapatiran Arnis Club with Escrima champion John Harvey, which meets on Tuesdays at Park Town Community Centre.

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Youngest stick fight contestants were aged just three (http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/sport/Youngest-stick-fight-contestants-aged-just/article-200751-detail/article.html)




CHILDREN and adults from all over Cornwall are to take part in the first South West stick fighting championships in Bodmin.


On Saturday children as young as five took part in the championships which were dubbed a huge success by organiser Ian Mudie, who runs Impact Martial Arts Academy in Bodmin.


He said: “The participants were using the method of Kali/- Escrima, which is a highly efficient and sophisticated weapons and empty hand system from the Philippines. Kali training develops speed, agility, timing, body mechanics and good co-ordination.”

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MARTIAL ARTS: New adult class begins in town (http://www.bournelocal.co.uk/sport/MARTIAL-ARTS-New-adult-class.5042353.jp)


AFTER the unprecedented success of Eskrima (Filipino stick fighting) in both Market Deeping and Peterborough, a new class for adults is to begin in Bourne.
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The classes in Dacayana Eskrima are taught by Paul King, one of the few authorised coaches for the discipline in the UK.

He is also a direct student of Master Jhun Dacayana.

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Martial arts enthusiasts line up for action (http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Martial-arts-enthusiasts-line-up.5131049.jp)


Since its inception, the festival has grown bigger and better and this year highlights will include guest appearances by two Escrima world champions, lion and dragon dancing and taster sessions in double stick and film choreography fighting.

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Grand Master hails martial arts event (http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/sport/4517500.Grand_Master_hails_martial_arts_event/)


THE Verwood-based Keith James Academy of Martial Arts hosted its first ever two-day Doce Pares Seminar last weekend.

The highlight of the event was the attendance of Grand Master Danny Guba, Europe’s highest ranking Filipino martial arts supremo in Eskrima Kali Arnis.

Guba holds a 10th degree Black Belt in the Doce Pares Original Multi-Style system and he was joined at the seminar by more than 80 delegates from all over Europe.

These included: Master Nimesh Desai (Bromley), Guro Lee Banda (Tonbridge), Guro Bill Lowrey (Newcastle), Guro Andy Gibney (Northampton), Guro Keith James (Bournemouth), Guro Paul Cox (Dublin), Guro Danny Huertas (Norway), Guro Jon Wesley (Colchester), Guro Ian Forster (Medway), Instructor David Arnold (Maidstone), Instructor Martin Fields (New Forest) and Instructor Andy Pooke (Southampton).

[LabanB]

Its Lowery, Lowery. I keep telling them....;-)

Bill LOWERY

[Brian R. VanCise]

We will try and get it right here Bill! :)

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Jujitsu world champion Rebecca keeps her promise to Haverigg (http://www.nwemail.co.uk/jujitsu_world_champion_rebecca_keeps_her_promise_t o_haverigg_1_659971)


The warm-up was exhausting for the Haverigg fighters and then the intensive three-hour course in the Filipino stick fighting art of Arnis went ahead. The course covered the triangular footwork used by all the Filipino arts, stick manipulation, self-defence and unarmed combat.

[Pat OMalley]

Jujitsu world champion Rebecca keeps her promise to Haverigg (http://www.nwemail.co.uk/jujitsu_world_champion_rebecca_keeps_her_promise_t o_haverigg_1_659971)As usual the papers get it wrong, she has won 5 Eskrima world titles (I know I trained her) and not Ju Jitsu ones and she has never done Ju Jitsu to any great degree, but then again the news paper reporters can be a bit thick.

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Heh, I don't expect much from them--they have no idea that there are more martial arts in the world than karate, kung fu, judo, and boxing, it seems.