The Manor Community College is closed on bank holidays therefore the sparring session on Monday 30 August 2010 will be held at the Histon Road Recreation ground between 4 and 6pm.   The lesson will be cancelled in case of rain during or before the session (e.g. if the grass will be wet).

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Training on Sunday 15th August is cancelled due to the bad weather.  Loads of rain yesterday and more forecast for today means it will not be practical to train our normal outdoor session this Sunday. You can make up for it by coming to the sparring session on Monday at Manor Community College in Arbury.

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CARISMA is running a new beginners course, starting on the 21 September 2010 to run for 4 consecutive Tuesday and Thursday classes (e.g. 21, 23, 28, 30).

Autumn beginners course are usually very popular with lots of university students joining us so if you would like to join (or you know somebody who would like to) please do it on the 21th of September.

If you’d like to check our prices please look at this page.

Feel free of advertising our beginners course at your company or your social club: you can do so by downloading and printing our flyer from this page.

There is no need for booking for beginners: please just turn up at 6pm at Kelsey Kerridge.

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So far we have been lucky this summer: as usual all Sundays of July and August we (try to) train outdoor.  Historically we managed to get about 5-6 out of 8-9 Sundays in any given year.  Summer 2010 has been good and we managed to get all Sundays outdoor this year.

Yesterday lesson was no different if not that at about 6 o’clock it started raining.  It was obviously too late traying relocating the lesson and, at the same time, the 9 CARISMA members at the lesson seemed so focussed on their training that they carried on kicking each other; luckily within less that 10 few minutes it stopped.  See them in this clip as they are training while rain is pooring down:

Toward the end of the lesson the sun came out so the lesson completed with and nice and relaxing conditioning training of which you can see a simple example from Heley and Aaron:

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There will be a meeting at 8:30, after training, on Thursday 22nd July, at The Bakers on East Road, for everyone planning to attend the Carisma Summer Camp 2010, mainly to confirm exact numbers and designate a few drivers for the cars.

If you’re coming to the camp, please come to this meeting!

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CARISMA is running a new beginners course, starting on the 20 July 2010 to run for 4 consecutive Thursday and Tuesday classes (e.g. 20, 22, 27, 29).

If you would like to join (or you know somebody who would like to) please do it on the 20th of July as there won’t be a beginners’ course in August.

If you’d like to check our prices please look at this page.

Feel free of advertising our beginners course at your company or your social club: you can do so by downloading and printing our flyer from this page.

There is no need for booking for beginners: please just turn up at 6pm at Kelsey Kerridge.

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I would like to thank personally the nearly 30 people that took part to the celebration of the 11th anniversary of CARISMA on Sat 12 June.

Starting at 3PM the party went on till late evening with a few guests that resisted all the way to the early Sunday morning

Here is a short clip with some of the relevant moments for the event:

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All Sunday sessions between 4 July and 29 August 2010 inclusive will be held at the Histon Road Recreation Ground (see map below) at 5:00-7:00PM if the weather allows it.

In case of rain (or if the grass is wet as it rained previously) we will post a message on this site to indicate the training venue that will be visible under the schedule category please check it if in doubt.
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What to do Next?
Agenda
Notes
Suggestions & Hints

This announcement provides some new details about the camp, including revised dates and travel arrangements.

The Summer Camp (SC) is a special training event lasting one or more days where all students of the club have the opportunity of practicing together in a relaxed environment.

Given the great success of previous years, we decided to organize the sixth
SC at the same place: a pleasant location in the Hungarian countryside. The whole event will be based in a village called Csokonyavisonta in the Somogy region, in the South East area of the country, by the Croatian border. You can have a look at where it is by clicking on this link.

Participants

Every member of CARISMA is invited to the Summer Camp: lower ranked people usually benefit of the high percentage of instructors and high ranked people that help their development and knowledge. There is no charge from CARISMA to participate to this event: just the costs associated to travel, substistence and fun.

What to do next?

Firstly, read the rest of this page which contains details of what to expect from the Summer Camp, travel arrangements, etc.

Then, let us know whether you will be coming or not, by registering your attendance against the Carisma Summer Camp 2010 event on the Carisma Facebook page. If you can’t or won’t use Facebook, use the email address below instead.

Finally (for now), if you have any questions about the camp, send an email to info (at) carisma.org.uk stating [Summer Camp] in the Subject.

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Provisional Agenda

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NOTES

In previous years we have reached Csokonyavisonta by flying Stansted to Budapest and renting cars to drive the remainder of the way. A similar journey via Zagreb (HR) is also possible.

This year, flights from Stansted to Graz (A) are available for around 60GBP, while flights to Budapest or Zagreb tend to be 150GBP or more. We therefore anticipate Ryanair flights FR 5732 (12:10 11/08/2010) and FR 5733 (15:40 18/08/2010). Transportation from Graz means renting cars in groups of 3-4 people per car to be arranged once it’s known who is going. Europcar currently has some good rates available for online pre-paid bookings.

The distance between each of these places and the final destination is approximately the same, and it is possible to reach Barcs, near Csokonyavisonta by train from Budapest – this is the recommended backup route for anyone unable to take the flights listed above for some reason.

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SUGGESTIONS AND HINTS

• activities: aim of the Summer Camp apart from training is to have fun: what is described above as Activities can be anything between chilling by the local pool or visiting a nearby town or forest for some hiking: it’s easier agreeing day by day what to do rather than rearranging things later because of weather or other reasons.
• money: local currency is the Hungarian Forint that changes to the GBP at about 346 (Google 25/06/10) to 1. Try to have plenty of cash with you. The best way to have local currency is carry some GBP cash and change it locally: alternatively you can draw cash with a maestro, delta card or credit card: all ATM are opened to international circuits such as VISA and MASTERCARD. Please do not rely entirely on plastic for payments over the counter because it cannot be assured that bars and rural restaurants will accept them. Changing at the airport in the UK is also possible but surely less convenient.
• food: Hungarian cuisine is not necessarily the lightest and most balanced in the world. They eat lots of meat, mostly pork, turkey and chicken. The area where we are going is also rich in game so dishes based on venison and wild bore are fairly common. Vegetables are usually very fresh and good. Eating in restaurants costs probably 20-40% of what it costs in the UK. At least one of the nights we’ll have a traditional goulash (or gulyas as it should be correctly spelled). A pint of beer costs between 60p and £1.50 and wine is also very reasonably priced. We let you work out what the budget should be for each of you.
• vegetarians: given the negligible percentage of vegetarians in Hungary most restaurants do not really have special menus to cater for vegetarians. In any case pizzas are fairly common, salads and vegetables are available everywhere even if they are usually considered side dishes. Fish dishes are also widely available: mostly fresh water fish from the local lakes and rivers.
• driving: we will have cars so please make sure to carry your driving licence: it makes life easier for everybody if more than one person per car is insured to drive the same vehicle.  Many car rental companies want drivers aged at least 25 and with a full driving license for a number of years: please check with the company you are choosing to avoid bad surprises.
• Accommodation: the village has a small tourist resort with villas and a Camping: prices for villas will be in the order or £15-20 PP/night: for a couple of pounds you can have breakfast in the nearby restaurant.
• uniform: we are going to be CARISMA ambassadors abroad therefore everybody’s uniform must be impeccable. CARISMA T-shirt, Gi trousers, belt, shoes. Needless to say that you should carry your full kit of pads.
• shoes: training will be outdoor, either on concrete or grass so please wear shoes. Martial arts shoes are probably the best solution. If you don’t own a pair of those the any kind of light weight trainers (not high top) will do just fine.
• sun: middle of August, Hungary: it’s likely to be very hot and sunny. We will be
  training outdoor so don’t forget strong sun protection if you have sensitive skin.
• clothing: evenings are pretty cool as the village is surrounded by forests: make sure to have reasonable warm clothing and a wind/water proof coat.

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CARISMA was invited to take part in two demonstrations of Kickboxing and Multicombat at the The Martial Arts Show that was held at the NEC in Birmingham on 22 and 23 May 2010.

TMAS, one of the most important exhibitions of martial arts in Europe, was a great celebration of all martial arts with many workshops, demonstration, competitions and exhibition stands. CARISMA had the opportunity to run two demonstrations at TMAS so a group of members was selected to prepare and perform the short demonstrations that could synthesize the whole essence of our training in just a few minutes and a handful of combinations.

Please have a look at the video:

A big thank you to Georgios Evengelinos, Aaron Lewis, Philip Richardson and Marcia Spoelder for their time and effort to help with the success of these demonstrations. A video of the event is being edited and it will be available soon.

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