8th NOVEMBER 08

See Gallery Page for Photos

AFK put on a Thai Boxing show - "1st Blood Part II Kickboxing Show" - and we were please to have had 4 students from our club enter the competition.

Olivia Oxley v Emily Kelly (Newcastle KO)
Olivia put up and great show and the fight was judged a draw - well done Olivia.

Danny Taylor v Peter Hall (Hucknall)
Danny fought bravely giving away a stone in weight and unfortunately lost on points.

Pep Corso v James Hardy (Salford)
Pep fought really well and received a well deserved points victory.

Marco Portaluri v Sam Sexten (MXGEN Valetudo Newcastle)
Marco fought really well and also received a well deserved points victory.

We thank you all for attending this event to support the above fighters and are very proud of them.

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OCTOBER 2008

Listen to Craig's Interview on BBC Radio Sheffield October 08.

OCTOBER 08

Craig and Ian Stones got invited to BBC Radio Sheffield to do a live interview to talk about Senshido and to do a demonstration on one of the Journalists.

Listen to the Interview.

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AUGUST 2008

Knife Seminar held on Saturday 16th August 08 1pm - 5pm.

16th AUGUST 08.

An Edged Weapon can be various different objects, most people just assume they are knives.

Not only are there knives, but also, broken glass and bottle's, torn drink cans, screwdrivers, razor blades taped to credit cards and even a credit card that has been ran along a wall, will cut you.

The list is endless, however the most common edged weapon you would probably be faced with - is a knife.

Unfortunately in todays street culture, edged weapon assaults are becoming more and more common.

The most common edged weapon attacks are with knives to threaten the individuals, so that they become frightened and hand over their personal possessions.

What would you do if an attacker put a knife to your throat and told you to do something?

The real answer is, that if you have never faced this type of attack, you do not know what you would do. Realistic training for this type of situation can only enhance your survival.

In this seminar we will look at the problems associated with weapon threats.

You will learn how to assess the threat, de-escalate the situation and if all else has failed, perform defensive techniques that will allow you to overcome any would be attacker.

The seminar starts by dealing with knife threats.

We will also teach you how to use common objects as defensive tools.

In every street attack the victim will have at hand various common objects that can be used to defeat and overcome an attacker.

These common objects fall into various categories, such as sharp implements (pens etc), stick like objects (umbrellas), heavy objects (stones/ashtrays), small objects (keys/coins), shield like objects (chairs/bags), whip like objects (belts/chains) and liquids.

In this seminar you will learn how to use these items to defend yourself.

See the Gallery Page photos here.

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Listen to Craig's Interview on Radio Sheffield July 08.

JULY 08

Craig received a phone call from Radio Sheffield to do a live interview on knive cultures and defending yourself.

Listen to the Interview.

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MAY 2008

Royce Gracie Seminar on Sunday 4th May 08.

4th MAY 08.

In association with Yorkshire - Derbyshire Royce Gracie Brazillian Jiu Jitsu Club, we are pleased to have Royce Gracie holding a seminar at our school.

9:30am - 11:30am and price will be £30 for members and £35 for non-members.

If you want to book on this seminar - please get in touch with Steve on 07879 662251 or email him at info@bjjselfdefence.com

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MARCH 2008

Richard Dimitri Senshido Seminar on Sat 29th & Sun 30th March 08.

29th & 30th MARCH 08 - See Gallery Page for Photos

Richard Dimitri the founder of Senshido and also one of the top Reality Based Self-Defense (RBSD) Self-Defense (RBSD) instructors in the world, came to our club in Sheffield.

Rich ran a two day seminar which covered "the difference between self-defence and 'fighting'", "the shredder", "behavioural science concepts", "Passive Strategy", "Flinch response drills", "target acquisition", "scenarios and tactile sensitivity training drills" to name a few.

Thanks to all who attended, we really appreciate this, especially those who travelled so far to learn from Rich.

See the Gallery Page for photos and also our what others say page to read some of the Testimonials.

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DECEMBER 2007

Craig boxed at the Charity Boxing Evening in Sheffield.

SATURDAY 1st DECEMBER - See Gallery Page for Photos

Have you ever thought what walking to that ring would be like?

They start to play your music, you hear the roar of approval - your approval.
It sends a shiver down your spine and you focus hard.
Up ahead you see the MC holding a piece of paper. As you walk through the crowd familiar faces shout words of encouragement.
Then you're in the ring and the referee starts barking orders about wanting a good clean fight. His words go over your head because you are eyeball to eyeball with your opponent.
You walk back to your corner, your heart bursting, knowing that when that bell goes you've got to come out fighting......

Tonight here at Sheffield's Grosvenor House Hotel, you will be taking part in - believe me - one of the biggest challenges of your life. You will be doing something that many people wish they had the courage to do, climbing up those three steps into a boxing ring.

This will be the final step in what have been many weeks of hard training. Sometimes you didn't feel like training, sometimes you felt sick after training and at times it did go through your mind to quit and not bother with it.
But you didn't quit and here we are tonight for what will be a night you will remember for the rest of your life, and when you are old and grey you won't be sat in your old people's nursing home telling your grandkids about what you did at work, you will be sat there telling them about the time you climbed up in to a boxing ring, and how it felt being in there.

All the money raised tonight will be donated to Ella's Fund and Sheffield Children's Hospital.

Ella was diagnosed in February 07 with an aggresive brain tumour and underwent three operations in a matter of days. Since then she has endured intensive courses of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in a bid to halt the cancer. Ella's parents Jo and Rob are determined to show their gratitude to staff at Sheffield Children's Hospital and have organised many fund raising events since February.

We at Sheffield Boxing Centre became aware of Ella's Fund through an article that appeared in the Sheffield Telegraph in September - just reading about Jo and Rob's fund raising efforts inspired us to "do our bit" by putting on tonight's show, which we hope will do Ella proud.

Finally as someone who has climbed up those three steps on many occasions, I would just like to say how much I admire you for taking part in tonight's promotion. I would also like to congratulate John McCormack on all his hard work in putting together tonight's show; trust me I know how hard it is to organise a show like tonight's. Well done John.

So all that leaves me to say is good luck and at the sound of the bell, come out fighting and protect yourself at all times.

Glyn "showboat" Rhodes

Craig fought Paul Wilson which turned out to be the fight of the night - congratulations to Craig and Paul on a draw.

Good on Dave Needham for stepping into the ring - as Glyn says above - "You will be doing something that many people wish they had the courage to do, climbing up those three steps into a boxing ring".

Kapapsheffield would also like to congratulate and thank all the boxers that took part in this event

Many thanks to Glyn Rhodes, Bob Cottrell, Steve Sidebottom, Matt Mowatt, Christian DiPaulo and all of Glyn's boxers for their support.

We would also like to thank all our students and friends who turned up to the event to support Craig and the Charity.

Also a very big thankyou to Sacha Matthews who made Craigs day by asking for his autograph, see her photo below.



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OCTOBER 2007

Richard Dimitri Senshido UK Seminar in Oct 07.

SATURDAY 6th & SUNDAY 7th OCTOBER - See Gallery Page for Photos

Richard Dimitri is the founder of Senshido and is also one of the top five Reality Based Self-Defense (RBSD) instructors in the world.

We were pleased to have attended his UK seminar held in Epping, Essex in October 07.

Some of our students also attended this event and have the bruises to prove it
- many thanks to you all for supporting us and Senshido.

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Rodrigo Gracie came to Sheffield in Oct 07.

SUNDAY 7th OCTOBER - See Gallery Page for Photos

In association with Yorkshire - Derbyshire Royce Gracie Brazillian Jiu Jitsu Club, we were pleased to have held this seminar at our school.

K1 and Pride fighter, Rodrigo Gracie (4 wins) came and taught basics and more advanced Ultimate fighting techniques.

Rodrigo offered all of the students a rare combination of fighting skill and teaching skills as shown in his books.

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SEPTEMBER 2007

Kapapacademy - Albert Timen at our Club - Ground Seminar.

SATURDAY 29th & SUNDAY 30th SEPTEMBER - See Gallery Page for Photos

KAPAPACADEMY - Major Avi Nardia & Albert Timen came to our club to pass on their knowledge of ground fighting styles.

A special thank you to:

* Avi and Albert for coming to our club.
* All our students at Kapapsheffield.
* Glyn Rhodes from the Sheffield Boxing Centre for supping all our tea.
* Royce Gracie Jui-Jitsu students and instructors.
* All Star MMA students and instructors.
* Tony Bradley from KMNW for sending some of his students.

We really appreciate your continued support of our club.


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AUGUST 2007

Congratulations to our students.

Congratulations to Ian Stones, Michael Jones, Tristan Unwin and Matt McNaughton on receiving their first stripe in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

They have been training in our BJJ class for almost a year and their stripe has been well earned - congrats to you all.

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Royce Gracie Seminar held on Saturday 7th July 07.

In association with Yorkshire - Derbyshire Royce Gracie Brazillian Jiu Jitsu Club, we were pleased to have Royce Gracie hold a 4hr seminar at our school.

The seminar was a great success and everybody thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

It was even more special for Craig who received his "BLUE BELT" from Royce - Congratulations Craig.





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JUNE 2007

Street Survival weekend training.

SATURDAY 16th & SUNDAY 17th JUNE 07

Chris Medhi from Street Survival came to train with us for the weekend.

Chris trained with some of our students at our classes and also trained with Steve Marsden from the Royce Gracie Brazilian Jui-Jitsu Network.

We also took Chris to Glyn Rhodes Boxing Gym (Sheffield Boxing Centre) and Glyn took Chris in the ring to show him some boxing moves.

Whilst at Glyn's gym, Chris also met John "Fireball" Fewkes (current light welterweight) who was training hard for his next fight on Friday July 13 2007 at The Barnsley Metrodome.

Matt Mowatt (ex lightweight professional), who is one of Glyn's Professional Boxer trainers, was also at the gym and took time out to talk to Chris.

Well it was a busy weekend for Chris and we are sure that he fell asleep all the way home on the bus back to London.

Thanks for coming Chris, and we hope that you enjoyed your weekend and will come back again.

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APRIL 2007

Craig and Debbie - Senshido Affiliates.

APRIL 07

It is with great pleasure to announce that we are now affiliated to Senshido.

Richard Dimitri of Senshido is one of the top five Reality Based Self-Defense (RBSD) instructors in the world.

We trained at the Senshido School in Montreal, Canada, with Richard Dimitri, Lee Castelani, Eric Audet and we also met up with Kenny Ramsahai.

It is great for us both to have expanded our family and it was a great experience to have had the opportunity to learn and meet the team.

We have chosen to incorporate the SPA (Senshido's Professional Alliance) into our current teaching methods to help enhance our curriculum.

Our training curriculum is designed to enhance your survivability. You will learn to heighten your awareness and accurately read your intuition in order to avoid violence, aggression and confrontation.

You will learn to de-escalate and defuse a potential aggressive or violent situation using psychological warfare and strategy.

You will also continue to physically defend yourself against the most common attacks on the street if avoidance and de-escalation failed.

Craig and Debbie

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OCTOBER 2006

Kapapacademy - Albert Timen at our Club - Knife Training - October 06.

SATURDAY 28th OCTOBER 06 - See Gallery Page for Photos

Kapapsheffield students met and trained with KAPAPACADEMY - Avi Nardia & Albert Timen.

Avi Nardia and Albert Timen came and taught them counter knife defenses and attack.

This is the fifth time we have had the honour of these guys visit our club.

Thanks again to all our students for their continued support to our club - if there were no students, there would be no club.

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4hr Kapap Seminar held in October 06

SUNDAY 8th OCTOBER 06 - See Gallery Page for Photos

4hr Kapap Induction Seminar - Abbeydale Park Racket & Fitness Club, Sheffield.

This seminar was open to everyone from any Martial Art background or no Martial Art background at all.

Yet again our Induction Seminar proved to be popular, we had people travel from as far a field as Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham and London.

Thanks to all of you who attended and hopefully you received an all round overview of the Kapap System and came away feeling confident and eager to learn more.

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AUGUST 2006

KAPAPACADEMY visited our club - August 06.

SATURDAY 18th AUGUST 06 - See Gallery Page for Photos

Kapapsheffield students met and trained with KAPAPACADEMY - Avi Nardia & Albert Timen.

Dave Lewis from www.kapap.ie also came to our club this night, see picture below.

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JULY 2006

Kapapsheffield.co.uk mentioned in the IKF Newsletter - July 06.

JULY 06

Click on the picture to open and read the full version of the newsletter.

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JUNE 2006

Kapapsheffield trained the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (Infantry) - June 06.

JUNE 06 - See Gallery Page for Photos

Most people would expect our British Army to receive some sort of Hand to Hand training
- this is not always true!!

Which led members of the HM reserve forces to contact us for training.

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I am a member of HM reserve forces and I and several of my colleagues will be mobilised to deploy on peace keeping operations to Afghanistan in 2-3 months time.

We have previously been deployed to Iraq, where we found we had a massive skills gap in the training we were given.

Due to time and resource constraints, we found that we were trained to discourage and de-escalate what was termed minor aggravation and in the application and use of lethal force with firearms.

We had a number of small incidents where we were physically attacked or had to arrest individuals which we were able to deal with through are current level of knowledge and sheer numbers.

However, we also experienced incidents where relatively small situations rapidly expanded into small scale public order events in which members of our group were seriously at risk, mainly from knives, sticks or being dragged into a crowd.

Although we were able to sort these situations out and rescue colleagues, by literally piling in, the only method we had to extract ourselves safely from the situation was to threaten or use lethal force.

With the combination of the legality of having to use lethal force and the current disciplinary action being taken against other members of HM forces and the risk of harm to ourselves, we have collectively challenged our superiors to give us some form of arrest and restraint training.

Although they have been sympathetic they simply can’t get the instructors or find places on courses to allow us to protect ourselves and avoid having to unnecessarily kill anyone, hence I have been looking at the private sector.

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Kapapsheffield were pleased to have carried out a 5 day training course for the lads of the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (Infantry)

Covering subjects as: combat conditioning, ground fighting, counter knife defenses and attacks, guns disarms anti-terrorist takedowns and controls.

Good luck to you all in Afghanistan.


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MAY 2006

Kapapacademy - Albert Timen at our Club - Gun Disarming - May 06.

SATURDAY 20th MAY 06 - See Gallery Page for Photos

As a special thank you to our students from Kapapsheffield and Kapapacademy.

Avi Nardia and Albert Timen came and taught them the principles of gun disarming.

This is the third time we have had the honour of these guys visit our club.

May we take this opportunity to thank all our students for their continued support to our club - if there were no students, there would be no club.

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Kapapsheffield, Avi Nardia & Albert Timen mentioned in Grapevine Magazine - May 06.

MAY 06

Read the article written in:

"Grapevine Magazine" about Kapapsheffield.co.uk, Avi Nardia & Albert Timen.



This article was also posted in www.usadojo.com

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APRIL 2006

4hr Kapap Seminar held in April 06

SUNDAY 9th APRIL 06 - See Gallery Page for Photos

4hr Kapap Induction Seminar - Greens Health Club, Sheffield.

Open to everyone - NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.

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8hr Reality Based Personal Protection Seminar held in April 06

SUNDAY 2nd APRIL 06 - See Gallery Page for Photos

8hr Personal Protection - Warehouse in Chesterfield/Sheffield.

Open to everyone - NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.

Kapapsheffield were pleased to have held - the first ever Jim Wagner Reality Based Self Defence Seminar in Sheffield, in conjunction with www.jimwagnertraining-ireland.com.


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MARCH 2006

Kapapsheffield Kids - March 06

MARCH 06 - See Gallery Page for Photos

Once a month at our Kickboxing Club we teach our kids the basics of Kapap - this month it was Knife Defence.

The kids had a great time and know that knifes are not toys but weapons that can harm.

Learning self defence at an early age builds confidence, but may well also one day save their lives.

Providing children with options and practical skills to RECOGNIZE, AVOID, and if necessary, ESCAPE violence and abuse.

Through self protection training, children become empowered, learning to replace the fear, confusion and panic of dangerous situations with confidence, personal safety skills and higher self-esteem.

Self Defence, Protection/Martial Arts can be a fine addition to a child's personal safety background, but Kapap Sheffield's curriculum is designed to establish a basic foundation of overall safety in a child's life.

We teach them how to defend themselves from all common attack scenarios: grabs, holds and strikes.

We hope that this additional monthly training will instil in our students, self confidence, physical fitness, discipline, respect and mental focus.

Kapap is not only a martial art - Kapap is a self-esteem building program with both realistic and practical skills useful in today's world.

Kapap is intended to provide a foundation of safety education for a child to build on for the rest of their life.


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FEBRUARY 2006

Kapapacademy - Albert Timen visited our club - February 06.

SATURDAY 18th FEBRUARY 06 - See Gallery Page for Photos

What an honour on Saturday 18th February 06 for our students at Greens -
Avi Nardia and Albert Timen, turned up to meet and train with them.

Not many students in Britain can say that they have met these guys let alone trained with them.

Avi Nardia:  www.avinardia.com, www.kapapacademy.com, www.kapap.net

Avi Nardia (Major Res.) Served in the Police Special Unit YAMAM as an Intelligence Team member and Defensive Tactics / CQB Instructor.

In his 24 years of experience, he served in the Israeli army (IDF), in the Lebanese War (1982), where he earned the rank of major, and he trained armed forces all over the world, including SWAT, SRT, SERT teams from patrol police to Special Forces, corrections officers, Army and Marine units and counter terror units.

In Israel, he taught defensive tactics and operational behaviour at the Operational Police Academy, which is charged with training the entire police force of the country. To this day, he is a CQB trainer in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Reserves, as well as a Reserve Police Sniper.


Albert Timen:  www.isiusa.us

Albert Timen is a former Elite Counter Intelligence undercover unit member of the IDF, Lotar and CQB instructor in the Police S.W.A.T. School, he is one of the only few in the world to catch and arrest a “live” Suicide Bomber with the explosive belt strapped on, while being in the progress of the suicide mission.

In his 18 years of experience he Trained Special Units in special tactics and cross trained with the best Operational Units in the world.

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Kapapsheffield.co.uk mentioned in SpearheaDNews - February 06

MONDAY 27th FEBRUARY 06

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4hr Kapap Seminar held in February 06

SUNDAY 5th FEBRUARY 06 - See Gallery Page for Photos

4hr Kapap Induction Seminar - Sam Jones Health Club, Sheffield.

Open to everyone - NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.


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NOVEMBER 2005

Avi Nardia and David Arama visited our club - November 05.

SATURDAY 18th NOVEMBER 05- See Gallery Page for Photos

Kapapsheffield students met and trained with Avi Nardia and David Arama.

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4hr Kapap Seminar held in November 05

SUNDAY 20th NOVEMBER 05 - See Gallery Page for Photos

4hr Kapap Induction Seminar - Seminar for a local Krav Maga Club, Sheffield.

Open to everyone - NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.


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