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Full team of TKO fighters appearing at this event which includes LAST MAN STANDING 3, the 8 man knockout event.Tickets available from all instructors.
Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th September
Senior grading weekend. Check with your instructor for times.
Sunday 21st September 2008
Black belt class. venue Tba.
Sunday 5th October 2008
BATTLE OF KENT 3 Light Contact event.
Venue: 44 Two club, Gillingham, kent.
Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th October
Junior Grading weekend. Check with your instructor for times.
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th Nov 2008
Senior grading wekend incl. 2008 BLACK BELT GRADINGS.
Friday 21st November
TKO Kickboxing Academy 2008 Preentation evening. Venue: Grangemoor Hotel, Maidstone
Sunday 30th November 2008
Full team of TKO fighters appearing at the Casino Rooms, Rochester. Full details to follow
Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st December
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Monday 18th August
JUNIOR STUDENTS OF THE MONTH
Here a little bit later than normal (so apologies for the late update) are the winners of the Junior Students of the month for July
ASHFORD
Rhys Croucher
MAIDSTONE
Kasey McCleave

MEDWAY
Shannon Rudden

Monday 4th August
More pictures from Florida.
Here are a few more pictures taken at the IKF World event.


Monday 28th July
TKO gain 3 Champions at the IKF World Open Championships in Florida

I am very proud to say that the TKO fight team achieved fantastic results at the IKF Championships, with all our fighters performing to their very best.

Carla Jessup won the Womens Bantamweight Division and was outstanding in beating all 3 of her opponents including the highly rated Lisa Wells who having beaten last years Champion Stacey Chung was expected to go all the way to the title, however Carla took all 3 rounds in the final and took the title.

Dan Chubb remained unbeaten taking his record to 10-0 winning the welterweight title. In the final it was an all TKO affair as he fought Tom Cunningham, however this was the best fight of the day and the best example of full contact kickboxing on display. I am extremely proud that the team spirit was such that the guys in the team were able to cope with competing with each other and doing so to a very high standard.

Louise Orton won the Junior Girls Featherweight title beating a very good fighter in Summer Satterfield.
The full team was Ashley Collins, Ashley Hook, Carla Jessup, Tom Cunningham, Matt Gilbert, Louise Orton, Dan Chubb, Neil Wyborn and Pat Sheehan from our good friends at Invicta Kickboxing Sittingbourne.
Check out the TKO Facebook group for more pictures and film of the fights from the event will hopefully be on our YOUTUBE channel soon (www.youtube.com/TKOkickbox)
Monday 7th July
We Are Getting Busy!
The TKO team are getting ready for a busy 6 months.
17th July.........

Florida......... The team are off to the IKF World Classic in Orlando Florida. They have been training really hard and I am sure they will do us proud. Details of how they get on will be posted here as the event takes place.
7th Sept.........
Casino Rooms,Rochester..............LAST MAN STANDING 3....Ashley Hook and Matt Gilbert compete in the LAST MAN STANDING 8 man knockout event, the winner goes to New York. Plus Ashley Collins fights for the IKF European Amateur title and Dan Chubb makes the first defence of his IKF Amateur Southern Area title.
14th Sept........
Absolute Adrenaline, Bournemouth........TKO team will be there in force. Check back for more details
4th Oct.......
Stevenage............Neil Wyborn, Joe Wells and Ashley Fisher will be in action at this event.
TBA Oct
Birmingham..........We will be back in Birmingham again. Hopefully we can secure a rematch for Joe Wells after his close loss there last time.
30th Nov
Casino Rooms......
Casino Rooms, Rochester.......Back at the Casino to end the year.
Please do your best to back all our fighters at these events, they deserve your support. The TKO team stands alone as the BEST team of kickboxers active in the county, come and see them in action.
Friday 4th July
CONNOR HAGGERTY IS THE WINNER OF JUNIOR STUDENT OF THE MONTH AWARD AT MEDWAY WHILST CAMERON SANDERSON IS THE WINNER AT MAIDSTONE.

Well done to both Connor and Cameron who won the awards this month for Medway and Maidstone.
Tuesday 1st July
FIRST WINNER OF JUNIOR STUDENT OF THE MONTH AWARD AT ASHFORD.

Well done to Aaron Durant who this week became the winner of the new Junior Student of the Month at the Ashford Academy.
Monday 23rd June
ANOTHER CHAMPION FOR TKO.

Rob Burbridge became the IKF Southern Area Amateur Super-Middleweight Champion when he beat Chris James in Bridgewater on Sunday. It was fight of the night and probably the best fight we have been involved in this year. It was a 5 round war with Rob edging the last 2 rounds to take the title.

Wayne Kennedy made it an even better night for us when he took his third win by outpointing a very tough opponent in Krystof (no surname at moment) from Weston Super-mare. Check the website and your e-mail newsletters for details of our teams next outing. Carla Jessup beat Whitney Huish (Ireland) by points dec.
Louise Orton beat Tracy Beatty (Body Power) by 2 nd rd TKO
Tom Cunningham beat Wayne Golding (Gatwick) by points dec
Joe Wells beat Ali Cahill (Samurai) by points dec
Wayne Kennedy beat John Paul Riley (Body Power) by 3rd rd retirement
Matt Gilbert lost closely to Ian Walsh (Ireland)
TKO AT PAIN AND GLORY
Pain and Glory is the biggest combat sports event held in the UK. Over 2000 people watched the event at the Excel centre in London and some of the countries top fighters were fighting from Thai Boxing, MMA, K1 and Kickboxing. We are proud to say that TKO supplied all the judges for the kickboxing, which was sanctioned by the International Kickboxing Federation. Colin Payne, Warren Fryer and Ian Lohoar had a great night judging the fights that featured Nick Gill, Suky Shoria and Qasim the Dream Nisar against top German opponents. Another indication of the sort of opportunities that we are able to give to members of TKO who wish to pursue a career in judging.
BRITISH LIGHT CONTINUOUS COUNCIL

Chief Instructor Colin Payne has been invited to join the management committee for the BLCC (British Light Continuous Council) and has been appointed as regional Director for the South of England. This is good news for all members as it further helps to maintain TKO in the forefront of all kickboxing activity in the country. No other kickboxing clubs in Kent can match the opportunities we can offer in full contact and with this it now means that we are also the only place to be if you want to compete in light contact as well.

MARTIAL ARTS ILLUSTRATED Check out the latest issue of Martial Arts Illustrated for a full report with pictures of the last event at the Casino Rooms 'Full Contact Warriors'.
50 ROUNDS DOWN AND SET FOR FLORIDA
Saturday 12th April
Well done to all 9 members of the TKO team who are going to the I.K.F. World Championships in Florida in July. To help raise money to fund the trip they all completed 50 rounds of sparring and with it raised some much needed sponsorship money.
All 9 I know would like to thank all those who came down and supported them and did of course all the sparring required for them to reach the 50.
The 9 who completed the task were Joe Wells, Ashley Collins, Louise Orton, Ben Cressey, Tom Cunningham, Dan Chubb, Matt Gilbert, Carla Jessup and Ashley Hook.

LOUISE ORTON AND TOM CUNNINGHAM GET ANOTHER WIN...AND SAME AS
LAST TIME.
Saturday 5th April
Louise and Tom went to Matlock, Derbyshire for their second fights and both came away with wins. Louise got another 1st round win over Tanya Spencer from Nottingham whilst Tom again won in the second round stopping Jez Shimwell from the home town club Jesters Gym.
Thanks to all the people who came to support, it was a long way to go so I know it was appreciated.
MIXED FORTUNES IN SCOTLAND
On the latest away trip for TKO we had one win and one loss after a long trip to Aberdeen.
Rob Burbridge got a very good clear points win over Mark Anderson, and his lead was never in doubt.
Ashley Collins although clearly winning his fight was victim of the kick-count in use on the show and judged not to have thrown enough kicks in one of the rounds lost a close points decision. A rematch is being sought for next February
Thanks go to Albert Ross for his hospitality at the show.

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