Archives 2018

The ITF Scottish Championships were held over the weekend of 17th / 18th February at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell.  With 54 competitors from GMAC taking part, over the two days.

First up on the Saturday were our Junior competitors, those 13 years and under.  We got off to a great start with a one-two placing in the first category of the day, with a trend being set for the rest of the weekend ahead.

Jakub Krug who was competing in the 7 years and under category, had a great competition, placing first in his age category, winning the title of Best Competitor Male 7 years & Under 2018, with 2 Gold and 1 Silver medal.

Jakub Krug: Best Overall Competitor 2018. Male 7 years & under

Pictured receiving his trophy from Grand Master MacCallum, when he came along on Sunday to also support his team mates.

Sunday saw the turn of our teens & adult competitors, who followed the lead set by our junior members, the previous day.

Results from the competition saw GMAC take home 27 Gold, 25 Silver and 23 Bronze medals.  And Best Overall Club.

What a truly great effort and achievement by everyone involved!

A full list of results can be downloaded here:

SC095SS – GMAC Martial Arts_Scottish 2018 Results

On the 24th Feb our Uddingston Gyms Boxing Team, travelled through to Penicuik, Edinburgh to fight for the UBBF Semi Pro European Boxing Title.

First up we had Daniel Baird fighting at 60kg and given it was only his second fight he went out there and stopped the lad in the first round with a great body shot. The night was off to a great start.  Next up was Scott Furley fighting at 74kg, sadly Scott’s fight was scored a Technical Draw due to a cut in the opening seconds of round two. The two lads came together in the corner clashing heads opening a inch long cut above Scott’s right eye. Doctors stopped the fight for safety reasons.

Next up was the big one, Andy McKenzie taking on Stu Campbell from Dundee for the Vacant UBBF European Semi Pro Boxing Title.  Andy fought very well from round 1 to 5 and got the decision, winning every round on all judges score cards!

We had only went and done it….. Andy was crowned champion and picked up a stunning European title strap.

See picture above, Mr Dickson was happier than Andy by looks of things!

We held our first grading’s of 2018, on Saturday the 10th February, with graduations for our Little Ninja and Kickin’ Kids, and then on to a grading for our Taekwon-Do students.

We’d like to congratulate the following students on their promotions:

LITTLE NINJA’S

Promoted to Nifty Ninja (Yellow):  Kalirose Templeton, Michael Hill and Jackson McDonald.

Promoted to Speedy Ninja (Orange): Daniel McCafferty, Ayden Beyden and Jude Scott.

Promoted to Cool Ninja (Green):  Kianna Sprott

Promoted to Super Ninja (Blue):  Max Watson, Holly Rees Nicol and Caleb Lynch.

Promoted to Top Ninja (Purple):  Danyal Haq and Daniel Piekarski

Promoted to Ace Ninja (Red): Jake Sher

Promoted to Champion Ninja (Blue):  Jonathan Maciver

KICKIN’ KIDS

Promoted to Quick Kicker (Yellow): Jaxson Drysdale

Promoted to Cool Kicker (Green):  Zara Campbell

Promoted to Super Kicker (Blue):  Finn Cooper and Eve Cooper

Promoted to Ace Kicker (Brown):  Gemma Gordon and Nickolas Brown

Promoted to Premier Kicker (Red):  Connor McCullagh

TAEKWON-DO

Promoted to 9th Kup:  Hope Currie and Erin Burns

Promoted to 8th Kup:  Courtney Murphy

Congratulations to you all!

Our Kickboxer’s travelled to compete at the WKA Scottish Championships in Perth on Saturday 10th February.   After a long day they returned with the following results:

WKA Scottish Champion in Continuous Sparring:-
Iain O’Hare
Jaimie Singleton
Megan Brown

WKA Scottish Champion in Points Sparring:-
Jay Jervis

WKA Vice Champion in Continuous Sparring:-
Oliwia Loza
Steven Mair
Charlie Leask

Bronze medals also picked up by:-
Ethan Drysdale for Continuous
Jay Jervis for Continuous
Steven Mair for Points

Kyle and Steven Lynch were also competing, but unlucky not to progress.

Congratulations to all those who took part.

We’ve had a little trouble with the website recently, but all seems to be fixed now, thanks to our resident IT specialist.

So watch out for lots of post coming soon….

Our Uddingston class will be running a few temporary timetable throughout January while we take our annual leave, most classes will however remain unaffected by this.

Please see our timetable for the next 3 weeks. Please note that there will be NO KIDS CLASSES Mon 15th, Tues 16th and Thurs 18th of January.

All classes resume as normal Thursday 25th January.

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience these temporary changes may cause and if you have any questions please message us.

Thank you for your co-operation,
Mrs. Kerris & Mr. Chris Dickson

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So we’ve just finished our first week back after the festive break, and already its been an exciting week!  We’ve squeezed so much in 7 days, and 2018 is only just beginning…

We welcomed everyone back to classes this week, and kick started the year off on a high.  Great energy and enthusiasm throughout all classes, and targets set for the year!

Yesterday saw the official launch of our special needs classes for both kids, and teens/adults, after a number of sessions throughout November & December we can already see those who came along and took part are super excited, enjoying the classes, and eager to continue.  We have also been asked along to another community action project in Boghall, with our first Martial Arts session starting tomorrow, and look to continue our work within the local communities and schools in the areas surrounding our gyms.

We have some exciting new things planned for 2018 on the competition mat, and have already kick started this with our Taekwon-Do Joint Competitor Development Training alongside our friends at Scotia TKD, 2 session in and already we see lots of progress, and look forward to workin

g towards each competitors goals for the year.  Our Kickboxers took part in their first WAKO training today in Livingston, and are eager to attend the next planned session.  We also have a number of bouts lined up in the coming months for both our Kickboxers and Boxers, watch out for more info soon….

It’s already shaping up to be the best year yet at GMAC!  Excited for what next week brings…!