About

We are a thriving martial arts club that trains in the city centre of Cambridge (CAMBS, UK): established in 1999 we quickly become the club to join for people interested in quality martial arts classes.  Our popularity within the city of Cambridge attracts a constant flow of keen and interested beginners so we often find ourselves near to saturation point and unable to accept new students that would like to join us.  If you are one of them please check our joining page and schedule page for more information.  Our fame and reputation was pivotal in 2007 to attract the Cambridge University Kickboxing Society (CUKBS) to require our expertise to offer them coaching.  The following year a group of students from Anglia Ruskin University decided to create, with our support and coaching, their own kickboxing club, ARUKBC.

We specialise in teaching Kickboxing , also known as American Kickboxing, that has similarities with many other martial arts while it adopts distinct rules for sport competitions.  While we consider Kickboxing a great foundation for fighting and fitness we are aware of the intrinsic limitations of its sport rules: therefore we are also teaching training Multicombat and techniques from other martial arts to instil awareness of what other styles look like and to avoid being too specialised in a single style.

We are training 4 times per week 51 weeks por year, offering great flexibility for busy students and young professionals which represent a large proportion of our members.  We encourage all members to get totally involved with the club’s activities, training in our friendly, relaxed and disciplined environment.  We like to think that our complete and extensive training methodologies are helping everybody to improve themselves in the areas of their life they would like to focus on and to leave out of the door the stress caused by work or study commitments.

If you would like to know what things we do at CARISMA and how we do them please visit the overview about the club and kickboxing page and multicombat page. If you would like to know about our forthcoming events organised by the club please visit the events page. It might also be a good idea to have a look at our Constitution.

If there is something you cannot find in the above pages you could have a look at the frequently asked questions page or Email your question to us.

CARISMA is affiliated and insured by Wako GB, an international governing body which is offering us certifications for our higher grades and coaches as well credibility and access to national and international competitions.

CARISMA is also linked to Another Way Kickboxing team of Piacenza (Italy) where master Davide Bottini, one of the pioneers who introduced Kickboxing in Italy, has been running his club since 1975.