TKO Kickboxing

The website for the TKO Kickboxing Academy
and for events promoted by TKO Promotions.


		FUTURE EVENTS				NEWS
		Saturday 7th & 8th June 2008 TKO Kickboxing Coaching course. Venue: Medway Academy Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd June 2008 Full team of TKO fighters appearing at the next event set for the Casino Rooms, Rochester. Tickets available from all instructors.. Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th July 2008 Senior grading weekend. Check with your instructors for times. Sunday 3rd August 2008 Black belt Class Venue:tba Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th August 2008 Junior grading weekend. Check with your instructor for times. Sunday 7th September 2008 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 Junior Grading weekend. Check with instructors for times				Friday 4th July CONNOR HAGGERTY IS THE WINNER OF JUNIOR STUDENT OF THE MONTH AWARD AT MEDWAY WHILST TAYLOR SANDERSON IS THE WINNER AT MAIDSTONE. Well done to both Connor and Taylor 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. Monday 16th June TKO TEAM TAKE ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS FLORIDA. The 9 TKO fighters competing in this year’s IKF World Classic have just completed a full two days training camp at the Medway Academy. 3 sessions on the Saturday with further training on the Sunday (at a time when most of you were definitely in bed!) show that the team is going to be 100% prepared for the event and will do us proud in Florida. They will be joined on their trip by Pat Sheehan from our good friends at Invicta Kickboxing. Further details on the Florida event nearer the time. Monday 9th June CONGRATULATIONS TO FIRST WINNER OF NEW JUNIOR STUDENT OF THE MONTH AWARD. Well done to LUKE BENTLEY who won the first of the newly implemented junior student of the month award for May at the MEDWAY Academy, a rightful reward for the work he has put into his training. Similar awards will commence at ASHFORD & MAIDSTONE from June onwards. Thursday 29th May TKO ATTEND THE PREDATORS SCHOOL OF MARTIAL ARTS MULTI-ARTS SEMINAR. A great day was had by all TKO members who attended this excellent event hosted by our good friend Renshi Victor Wade 6th Dan and tuition was given in Ju-jitsu, Aikido, Karate, Kempo-Ju-Jitsu and of course Kickboxing which was taught by TKO Chief Instructor Colin Payne. Monday 19th May TITLE OPPORTUNITY COMES TO ROB BURBRIDGE FOLLOWING HIS BIG WIN LAST WEEK. After his great win over American Andrew Morello last week Rob will now be off to Bridgewater, Somerset on June 22nd where he will contest the I.K.F Amateur English Super-Middleweight title against Chris James from Budo Juku. So no rest for Rob after last week and he will get straight back into heavy training from this week on. Hopefully some of you will want to come down and support him. FANTASTIC RESULTS AT LATEST CASINO EVENT. DAN CHUBB NEW I.K.F. TITLE HOLDER ROB BURBRIDGE WINS INTERNATIONAL LOUISE ORTON TAKES A THIRD KO WIN 7 WINS OUT OF 8! Sunday 11th May It was truly a great night at the Casino Rooms on Sunday for the TKO team. With 8 fighters appearing we scored 7 wins. These included Dan Chubb who took the I.K.F. Southern Area Amateur welterweight title beating Ben Thorold from CKA and Rob Burbridge who won his first international fight defeating Andrew Morello from the USA. Rest of results: 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.