ACMAC News

Thank you to everyone who turned out for the Doncaster Rovers Demo we had around 40 students (kids, adults and little dragons) take part, we showed all aspects of our Syllabus including Basics, Kicking, Kama, Krabi Kabong, Sport Swords, Eskrima, Nunchaku, SDF Self Defence, Sparring, Pad Work & Board Breaking.

We look forward to a continued relationship with Doncaster Rovers.

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Well done to Team ACMAC on a great team performance at the IAKSA Summer Championships in Nottingham. 11 Students came away with 11 Trophies 3 Gold (Nat, Hayden & Suneil), 4 Silver (Mel x2, Suneil & David) and 4 Bronze (Ross x2, Sam & Ellie) Well done also to Tia, Shaun & Lucy who did the Team proud but didnt end up in the top 3.

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We held 2 seminars on Saturday 7th August, the first was a Sparring Seminar with Kev Miller and the 2nd a Catch Wrestling Seminar with Ian Bromley from Stockport who is a representative of Billy Wicks and Johnny Huskey.

Both were well attended and both Instructor's gave a great class.

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On Sunday 1st August it was time for the Annual Revolution Multi Style Martial Arts Seminar held as always at ACMAC. We were lucky enough to host John Goldson (BJJ), Chris Jones (Action Films), Colin Beddow (Krabi Kabong), Rick Burns (Sport Sword), Steven Smith (Defendo), Ian Harrison (Kick Boxing) plus myself (SDF) and Mrs P (TKD).

We had almost 60 students take part from all over the UK, it was a great day and everyone learnt alot and made new friends.

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On Thursday 22^nd July 2010 we held 2 Charity Martial Arts Training Seminars with Master Kim Stones. There was 1 seminar for Children and 1 seminar for Adults.

Myself and Mr Stones both agreed not to charge for this session or take a fee for ourselves instead asking the students to make a donation to Charity.

The charity chosen was the Doncaster Special Baby Care Unit which is one Mr Stones holds dear to his heart.

It was the first time Mr Stones had taught a Martial Arts lesson in over 5 years after retiring as one of the most successful Instructors & Competitors in UK History.

From a personal point of view it was a great honour for me to have at my Centre the man who I trained with from being 7 years old and who employed me as an Instructor at his Schools for 6 years.

We had a great turn out with over 60 students on the mats most of whom were from Andy Crittenden’s Martial Arts Centre but some of whom had travelled from far and wide to train with this legend of UK Martial Arts.

We raised £138.26 for the cause, I would like to thank everyone who supported it especially Master Stones who taught two great sessions.

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Congratulations to new ACMAC Black Belts.

Beth Jackson 2nd Dan TKD

Daniel Smith 1st Dan MSMA

James Walker 1st Dan MSMA

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On Friday 11^th June I taught a SDF Seminar at Doncaster Fight Club in Rossington. I have been working with he Instructors there since it re-opened earlier in the year, we have a great working relationship and I am teaching the SDF down there along with ex ACMAC MMA Fighter Greg Letch and I will be grading the students in the SDF System, Also I will be doing Black Belt Gradings in Kick Boxing in August for 2 of the other DFC Instructors Greg Raper & Paul Summerill, both of whom I have graded in the past.

The seminar went down really well and 3 lads got their Red Belts, they were Greg Raper, Jono Ashton & Nick Ashton. Thanks to Tommy Long, Bryn Simpson & Steve Lawley for assisting me. I look forward to a continued relationship with the guys at DFC.

The next day I was once again teaching a SDF Seminar to students of my good friends Craig Long’s York Martial Arts Academy.

The seminar was mainly women and we had a much different approach to the lads in Rosso the night before. These women had many great questions about self defence specific to themselves and it was a really good session. We covered basic self defence, knife defence, rape defence and more.

Craig has a fantastic set up and is a great guy, 1 of the best around, it was an honour to teach at his school.

then to finish off a crazy weekend of seminar ACMAC Students attended the first ever NSWA Sport Sword Seminar in North Shields. We hired a coach and filled it full of keen students who wanted to not only learn more about the NSWA System but also try their hand at competing.

The event was run and organised by the awesome Mr Burns and many clubs from the Revolution Network attended, Rick showed techniques, defence and counters with the sword and then we split off into 3 groups to do some mini competitions. Everyone got a medal and it was a great day. We did a whip round for the Action for Society Charity at the end and we raised over £60. 

The day finished off with a nice surprise when I was presented with an award on behalf of the Revolution Network for all the work I had put into it and all the events I have organised. I was very surprised and honoured, I feel lucky you be surrounded by such great Martial Artists like Rick Burns and Colin Beddow who presented me the award.

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On Sunday 23rd May we were honoured to have the legendary Royce Gracie teach a seminar at our Centre. Royce Gracie is the most famous Martial Artist in the World and the most sought after Instructor in the world. He constantly travels the globe teach his family’s fighting system Gracie Jiu-Jitsu which he popularised by winning the first ever Ultimate Fighting Championship back in 1993.

I have trained with Royce many times and achieved my Blue Belt from him in 2003 but this was the first time I had the opportunity to host him at ACMAC.

It was the hottest day I can ever remember in the gym. We had 47 Martial Artists from all over the country attend including 11 ACMAC Students Jordan Rowe, Thomas Lee, Paul Doran, Melanie Hartley, Stefan Johnson, Nickie Treen, Elaine Simmonds, Steve Lawley, Bryn Simpson, Guy Kramer and Carl Spilman. Other attendees included Rick and Gary from BSBB, Russ and Laen from NEST, Gaz Beddow and gang from East Meets West, Carl and Natalia from Black Dragons, Martin Folan, Chris Wilson, Martin Dougherty, Richard Lane, Phil Beniston, White Tigers Sam and Liam and John Goldson and 4 of his students from Gracie Barra Sheffield and others.

Royce came in, in his usual laid back way and just went straight into his seminar, he started with a takedown and then showed a series of moves that all linked together.

Everyone enjoyed the seminar and came away smiling, sweating and learning. Royce was his usual laid back self and delivered a really good seminar to mostly first timers in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, he made sure he went round helping people who were struggling along with his assistants Eddie Kone and Tony Bebbington.

At the end of the seminar Royce hung around and signed autographs and posed for pictures, it was a great day, one of the best we have had at ACMAC, we have been very lucky to have some of the top Instructor’s in the world at ACMAC and Royce joins the list of people such as Dave Turton, Michael Bisping, Johnny Huskey, Trevor Roberts, Larry Hartsell, Mick Gould, Stevie Smith, Pat O’Malley and Phil Glover.

Earlier in the day at a Seminar in Barnsley Paul Doran and Tom Lee were awarded their Blue Belts in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu from Royce, well done guys.

We hope to have Royce on seminar in the future and hope to continue to provide World Class seminars at ACMAC for many years to come.

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As many of our Children were disappointed to not be matched at the UMA Grappling Championships I decided to run a Kids Grappling Competition just for our members so on Sunday 23^rd May that’s what we did.

17 Kids took part, 16 on the day and then Dylan Sayles did his on the Wednesday as he couldn’t make the Sunday and had paid and was looking forward to getting a medal, we did him a couple of competitive bouts against Kids in his weight division.

Back to the day, all 16 kids were weighed in and it gave us 3 weight categories, the light weight division had 4 kids, middle weight division had 7 and there were 5 heavy weights.

I was absolutely blown away by the standards of the Kids that took part, there guard work was great both on top and on the bottom and there transitioning and positions were excellent.

We fought all the divisions through to the finals and then made sure all the kids who had been eliminated got to have at least 3 fights. The finals were all really exciting especially the heavyweights as it was brother vs sister!

In the end the winners of each category was Shaun Bell (Light), Ross Cerenko (Middle) and Sebastian Walker (Heavy) with Rhys Griffiths winning the award for best Improvement and Attitude.

Everyone who took part was a winner and everyone got a well deserved medal. The others who took part were Tegan Hartley, Nathan Morton, Thomas Andrew, Tia Rowe, Kalvin Alcock, Callum Taylor, Owen Taylor, Jarrod Allsopp, Cieran Ashbridge, Ellie Saxton, Bradley Mason and Charlotte Walker.

I look forward to holding another Comp like this soon.

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On Sunday 25th April we were extremely proud to have Muay Thai Master Phil Glover teach a seminar at our Centre. Phil is an excellent practitioner of the Art and a very knowledgeable teacher, we hope to continue working with hil in the future, thanks to everyone who took part and especially Phil for delivering an excellent seminar.

Thats another world class Instructor on the list that have taught at ACMAC.

Phil Glover - Muay Thai

Dave Turton - SDF

Trevor Roberts - Ju-Jitsu/Grappling

Johnny Huskey - Catch Wrestling

Michael Bisping - MMA

Mick Gould - Goshinkwai

Stevie Smith - Boxing

Pat O'Malley - Rapid Arnis

Larry Hartsell - JKD

Mick Shore - JKD

Lagarto - BJJ

Paul Oxtoby - Tae Kwon Do

Karl Blackwell - SDF

Tony MacDonald - Thai Massage

Steve Hallam - Kung Fu

Matt Hunter - Ju-Jitsu

Rick Burns - Tempest Karate & Weaponry

Ian Harrison - SDF

And more that i cant think of apologies if i have missed you off and not forgetting the AWESOME ACMAC Instructor Team.

Next Seminars will be

ROYCE GRACIE!!!! 23rd May

Then

Ian Bromley - Catch Wrestling

Dave Irwin - Serrada

Kev Miller - Competiton Sparring

In September we are proud to host the SDF 10th Anniversary Seminar Weekend with Dave Turton, Trevor Roberts, Karl Blackwell and Paul Oxtoby and before that on the 13th June in Newcastle we will be travelling up to take part in the first NSWA Sport Weapons Seminar.

We are proud to offer are members mre than anyone else around.

To be the best you have to train with the best

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Congratulations to all that did their SDF Self Defence Gradings on Friday 23rd April, everyone did great and performed to a high standard which is what we expect at our School.

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Team ACMAC had a fantastic day at Judgement Day on Sunday 11th April. This is one of the UK's premier Tournaments and we didnt expect much from this Event medals wise. However is was pleasantly surprised and extremely proud of how well our Team did.

We took 9 students and brought back 8 medals!

We have now taken medals at The WAKO British, WKC English, WTKA English & Now Judgement Day as well as taking 28 medals from the Revolution North of England Championships. Im very proud of all of Team ACMAC. Check out our comp team page for more info.

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Congratulations to David Colley on winning the WKC British Title  yesterday. David will now be representing his country at the Wolrd Championships in Portugal.

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Thanks to everyone who supported the Rapid Arnis Seminar especially Pat O'Malley who as always gave a great seminar.

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Thank you to everyone who supported the Revolution Martial Arts Network North of England Championships. It was a fantastic day, we had a great increase in entries with a total of over 180 competitors from 18 clubs making it our biggest event yet. Also we had an increase in standards and we maintained what has made us successful, professionalism, smooth running, no attitudes, no ego’s, no politics, good atmosphere and all round friendliness.

The day would not have been the same if it wasn’t for the fantastic team work, I am very lucky to be surrounded by some wonderful people. It would be impossible to thank everyone as I wouldn’t want to miss anyone out but im sure if you helped out you know who you are and I want you to know how much I appreciate you and how important you are to the further growth of our Tournaments and the Revolution Network. Thank you to the Area Managers (Mr Burns, Mr Harrison & Mr Beddow), Referee’s, Shadow Referee’s, Corner Judges, Forms Judges, Timekeepers, Scorekeepers (especially our Senior Area Co-ordinator Sarah Melvin) and Lucy’s Team who dealt with the entries, spectators and tuck shop especially Terry who as well as standing guard and making sure nobody snook in he as always was up at ACMAC early to put the mats in his van and transport them to the school. I would like to thank Tacita, Natalie, Dean and Jordan from Team ACMAC for looking after the Team as I was tied up all day.

Considering the numbers and space of the venue the event ran smoothly and didn’t finish much later than we expected, we pride ourselves on giving a 4 hour time window for Kids and Adult Competitors this is what makes us different from a lot of competitions where you can be waiting from 9am till late in the evening,, the only other thing was the parking which I knew nothing about and had no control about, I would suggest anyone who has a problem get in touch with the school and maybe we can have our car park back next time.

Back to the positives and they by far outweighed the negatives. Standards went through the roof with some of our circuits most well known fighters not coming away with a Gold this time, also im looking at the Adult Black Belt Forms Division, all 7 competitors scored 28 out of a possible 30! For example that would be 9.5 from 2 judges and 9 from the another! That’s a high standard at ANY competition.

Another high point was the introduction of the Sport Sword Divisions. These were very popular and will get bigger and bigger with the support of the NSWA.

Remember the winners of each categories have now automatically qualified for the Revolution English Title Fight Night in October.

Here are our Team’s results

12 Gold Medals

Suneil Singh (3), Tiffiny Richardson, Luke Cullen, David Colley, Natalie Loy, Claire Dalton, Sam Burton, Hayden Lindley, Jessica Corish & Holly Winder

8 Silver Medals

Tia Rowe (2), Ebony Richardson, Ellie Saxton, Melanie Hartley, David Kiggin, Dean Mitchell & Jack Malone

8 Bronze Medals

Mrs Parker (2), Ellie Saxton, Bethany Levick, Thomas Lee, Ross Cerenko, Jack Malone & Holly Winder

And well done to: Jordan Rowe, Jon Glarvey, Tommy Long, Stefan Johnson, Lucy Shaw, Kelly Ashbridge, Tegan Hartley, Callum Taylor, Jarrod Allsopp, Shaun Bell, Thomas Andrew, Daniel Smith, Cieran Ashbridge & Russ Colley who isn’t an ACMAC member but is David’s brother so that’s good enough for a mention.

It was great to see so many ACMAC members getting into competitions, so many first timers too.

These results made us the Team with the most medals so another proud day for Team ACMAC.

Next Competition is Judgement day in April, then its the Grapplers turn in Stoke on 1st May.

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On Friday 5th March we were honoured to have Johnny Huskey grace out mats and deliver an outstanding Seminar in Carny Style Catch as Catch Can Wrestling. We had over 40 Students turn out for the seminar and everyone went home buzzing.

Students from Newcastle, Sunderland, Derby, Nottingham, Leeds, Dewsbury, Eckington, Selby, Thorne and ACMAC Students came to learn from the best in the Business.

Johnny showed us the main techniques that worked on the Carnivals in the aearly 20th Century where his Instructor Billy Wicks earnt his living, then he showed us some chain Wrestling and some other devastating finishes.

As well as his skills as a Catch Wrestler Johnny is also a great teacher and made sure that all the students on the mat understood the techniques before moving on to the next one.

I would like to thank Johnny and Ian Bromley & Jimmy Kelly for assisting him and everyone who attended, we will be having Johnny on Seminar every time he comes over from his base in North Carolina, USA.

Look out for all the exciting seminars we have coming up with the likes of Royce Gracie, Phil Glover, Craig Lawrence and Pat & Lucy O'Malley.

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Congratulations to Darrell Frizzell & Natalie Loy on qualifying as Instructor’s and Claire Dalton qualifying as an Apprentice Instructor.

If any Assistant Instructors or Apprentice Instructors wish to progress to the next level please see Mr C before the end of February and we can arrange a regular class for you to help out in and share teaching responsibilities over the next 12 months in order to be able to progress towards becoming a Full Instructor.

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Well done to all Team ACMAC members who competed in the WTKA International Competition in Leicester. 7 Competitors and 6 medals was a huge achievement for this high standard event.

Medals went to Luke Cullen (Silver - Points), Andy Crittenden (Silver - Sport Sword), Sam Burton (Silver - Points) Suneil Singh (2x Bronze - Points & Continuous) & David Colley (Bronze - Points)

Mentions go to Tia Rowe, who was very unlucky in her 3rd place fight decision! Jess Corish who did a great pattern and Lucy Shaw, Claire Dalton & Ellie Saxton who didnt get to compete due to the late finish.

Next up for us is the Revolution North of England Championships in March

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Dont Miss out on the up coming World Class Seminars

Royce Gracie - BJJ - Sunday 23rd May - £20 deposit before 20th Feb

Johnny Huskey - Catch Wrestling - Friday 5th March - £10 deposit asap

Pat & Lucy O'Malley - Rapid Arnis - Saturday 20th March - £10 deposit before 28th Feb

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We announced our yearly awards at our Graduation, here are the 2009 award winners,

Junior Student of the Year 2009 - Tia Rowe

Senior Student of the Year 2009 - Caroline Lodge

Competitor of the Year 2009 - Bryn Simpson

Black Belt of the Year 2009 - Claire Dalton

Also we had the Revolution Tournaments National Awards this year and 3 of our Students came away winners in these highly prestigious awards well done to:

Kev Miller (Senior Fight of the Year)

Suneil Singh (Junior Fight of the Year)

David Colley (Junior Competitor of the Year)

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Congratluations to everyone who graded this time, we had an excellent standard throughout the week. Special well done's go too the new dan grades.

4th Dan - Craig Oxley

2nd Dan - Terry Fox & Tacita Hubber

1st Dan - Lucy Shaw, Rebecca Shaw, Jade Frizzell, Caroline Lodge, Brandon Frizzell, Sebastian Walker & Craig Lawrence

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Team ACMAC were awesome in the English Title Fight Night, winning the Team Trophy with 8 English Champions. Everyone on the Team were awesome whether the won or not. It was one of the proudest moments of my Career. Well done and thanks to everyone involved.

Here are our results

Boys Points Under 50kgs

Beer Klongklaew (EMW) beat Suneil Singh (ACMAC)

Girls Points Under 35kgs

Tia Rowe (ACMAC) beat Paris Slater (Black Dragons)

Girls Points Under 55kgs

Laura Singleton (NEST) beat Ellie Saxton (ACMAC)

Girls Points Over 55kgs

May Klongklaew (EMW) beat Jade Frizzell (ACMAC)

Boys Points Over 50kgs

David Colley (ACMAC) beat Alex Glenton (EMW)

FORMS

Jazz Lamberg (Gorton) won

Runners Up - Millie Sansom (BSBB),

Suneil Singh (ACMAC), John Duggan (Gorton)

Jack Malone (ACMAC), Libby Sanson (BSBB)

Girls Continuous Under 55kgs

Alex Gilbert (DF) beat Ellie Saxton (ACMAC)

Boys Continuous Under 45kgs

Suneil Singh (ACMAC) beat Callum Dillon (BSBB)

Girls Continuous Over 55kgs

Holly Winder (ACMAC) beat Natalia Rea (Black Dragons)

Men’s Coloured Belts Points Under 75kgs

Chris Blair (ACMAC) beat Ian House (EMW)

Women’s Points Under 65kgs

Kielly Mather (BSBB) beat Jessica Corish (ACMAC)

FORMS

Jessica Corish (ACMAC) won

Runners Up - Rick Burns (BSBB), Kielly Mather (BSBB)

Michelle Turnbull (BSBB) & Simone Sansom (BSBB)

Men’s Continuous Under 75kgs

Daniel Meenaghan (DF) beat Chris Blair (ACMAC)

Women’s Continuous Under 65kgs

Jay Spain (YMAA) beat Natalie Loy (ACMAC)

Men’s Continuous Over 85kgs

Bryn Simpson (ACMAC) beat Darren Wood (DF)

Women’s Continuous Over 65kgs

Karen Grieves (EMW) beat Claire Dalton (ACMAC)

Men’s Continuous Under 85kgs

Kev Miller (ACMAC) beat Lee Wilson (EMW)

So we now have 8 English Champions

Kev Miller

Bryn Simpson

Chris Blair

Jessica Corish

David Colley

Holly Winder

Tia Rowe

Suneil Singh

The show was fantastic, i must say everyone from all the clubs were amazing, everyone who helped out also were superstars! Looking forward to next year!

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Congratulations to Paul Henseleit on becoming a Masters Level Self Defence Instructor and Assessor with the SDF after a weeks intensive Instruction with myself at ACMAC.

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We had ANOTHER excellent day at the competition in Morpeth. Everyone did me and the other Instructors proud but once again it was the Team performance that was the best part of the day.

We only had 13 competitors but we came away with 8 Golds and 3 Silvers. It was the first time we had any students take part in Sports Sword, i think it will be start of something big, myself, Ellie Saxton, Cieran Ashbridge & Suneil Singh entered the Sports Sword categories run by the NSWA and throughly enjoyed it. We didnt look out of place against people who had been doing it years, Suneil even won his division.

Here are the list of Medallists.

Gold

Suneil (3- Sports Sword, Patterns & Points) David Colley (Points), Kev Miller, Natalie Loy & Claire Dalton (All Continuous) Jessica Corish (Patterns)

Silver

Holly Winder (Points) Cieran Ashbridge (Points) David Colley (Adults Points)

Other students who took part and did us proud was Jade Frizzell, Ellie Saxton, Sarah Melvin & Kelly Ashbridge. I entered the Sports Sword as i wanted to lead by example and i hope that next time we can have more of a Team to take to the next NSWA event.

David Colley came away with the Samurai Spirit award for his display of skill in his division but also for how he fought Lee Wilson in the Adults, he showed no fear of this great fighter who is much larger, expreienced and older than him and really pushed Lee to the limits. David is a great kid and im glad he is on Team ACMAC.

Thanks to eveyone who made the journey up north to support the team. Thanks also to Colin & Tony for organising a great Comp.

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We have just finished the SDF Self Defence Grading, excellent standard, it made me very proud well done to all that passed

Blue Belt - Jon Glarvey

Green Belt - Josh Rollinson

Orange Belt - James Walker & Sharon Roe

Yellow Belt - Stefan Johnson, Elaine Simmonds & Thomas Lee

Red Belt - Dave Wortey, Paul Doran, Nickie Treen, Alan Orwin, Carl Spilman & Paul Holmes

I know have 36 current active Adult Students graded in the SDF Self Defence System with the majority ACMAC members but ranging from NEwcastle down to London.

Its great to see this system growing within my school and around the UK.

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The Stevie Smith Boxing Seminar we held was Awesome, great Boxer, Great Instructor and a great person. We look forward to having him again in 2010.

Thank you to all the staff who looked after ACMAC while myself and Lucy was away. I knew it was in great hands and it was, lots of positive feedback from the students. Thanks Team.

Thank you to everyone who supported Grapple Day last week, it was a fantastic event. It's great to see how well the students are doing since re-introducing Grappling training to our School. We also had Dragon Freestyle, Derby Self Defence, White Tiger Kick Boxing & Chris Jones Martial Arts Acdemy members at the event. I have had 100% sucess rate of everyone who attended saying they was very sore after wards.  Unfortunately it will be the last Grapple Day i think but it will be replaced with something alot better, along the same lines.

On 1st October i became only the 2nd person in the Country (after Dave Turton!) to be awarded the level of "Master Assessor" in the Self Defence Federation

Congratulations to everyone from Team ACMAC who took aprt in the Revolution Yorkshire Championships, our Team came away with the most medals, which was great.

Gold Medals went to: Suneil Singh (2), Natalie Loy, Bryn Simpson, Tia Rowe, Chris Blair, David Colley & Holly Winder

Silver Medals went to: Ellie Saxton (2), Lucy Shaw, Beckie Shaw, Suneil Singh, Audrey Parker, James Lodge & Jade Frizzell 

Bronze Medals went to: Sarah Melvin, Chris Blair, Jessica Corish, Jack Malone & Audrey Parker.

Now we have a lot of students qualified for the English Title Fight Night in November.

Well done to everyone who graded this week. On all the gradings we had a high standard of skill, technique, fitness, discipline, respect and attitude. Well done everyone.

2009 has been our best year yet with a great Staff and Students, fantstic family atmosphere and an awesome choice of Martial Arts programs on offer, 2010 looks to be the same as were gonna kick it off in grand style with not 1 but 2 world class seminars in January, firstly with Mark Wiley, renowned Filipino Martial Arts expert and returning to ACMAC after a very succesful seminar last year will be Catch Wrestler Johnny Huskey. If your interested in either of these seminars let me know asap and we can start taking a bit of payment off you each month. Dont miss out. Grappling class NEED to be at Johnny's seminar.

We are very excited to have former World Champion Boxer Stevie Smith teaching at our Centre in October.

Congratulations to Tommy Long who achieved his Black Belt in SDF from Dave Turton.

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