Kombat Arts Blog

 Jason “Mayhem” Millar, a veteran of Mixed Martial Arts events (MMA) including the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) was at our school to share some really good Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) and Greco Roman wrestling techniques specifically for MMA.  He’s an awesome character and good instructor and the students had a great time.  Thanks to Riccardo from Fight Planet for bring Mayham down to our school and to Zarko for allowing to use his piks.  If you are interested in MMA training in Mississauga click here, Jd

Congrats to the following who passed their Red Phase in our Thai boxing program: Jamie Handy, James Bailey, Michael O’Donnell, Peter Lozano, Andre Maitland, Christina Colli and Kevin Nabbie.  Awesome work guys, we are very proud of you guys, Jd

Linda is again starting her RAVEN self defense program for the 2008 year.  I have to say that Linda’s self defense program for women is the best one out there.  I should know because in my 25 years in the martial arts I have seen a lot of crap out there and I have had the luxury of watching Linda’s program mature and develop; and still develop! I like the program because it covers a lot of preventative information, great mind set development, and awesome technical skills that cover standing and groundfighting situations.  The techniques themselves can be modified for the individual, nothing is set in stone. 

If you are a female or if you know of someone that should learn self defense (which is really everyone), than please recommend this course to them.  The next course will be held April 13, 2008.  The time to learn about self defense is before something happens to you.  Many females worry that they will be “gloving up” and smashing each other with crazy martial arts techniques; again the emphasis is on strategy, developing certain attributes (mind set to fight), and if necessary using techniques and concepts to escape the situation; not stay and do battle with your attacker. Future dates include: July 6 and November 9.

Check out Linda’s bio and here is a program description.

Register here at the bottom of the page, Jd

  Here are the following test dates for our Thai Boxing curriculum:

Red and Red Advanced Phase: March 22, 1 PM

Green and Green Advanced Phase: March 28, 6 PM

If you feel you are ready to test please do the following: pick up a copy of the test from the front desk and please confer with Kru Joey de Los Reyes so that he can evaluate you and see if you are ready to test.

Recently Joey de Los Reyes of the Kombat Arts received an award from the Peel Regional Police Association for his contributions to helping out the boxing community within PRP’s athletes.  Kombat Arts worked with many other communtiy oriented groups to raise $15, 044.73 for the Kidney Foundation of Canada.  Martial arts is about helping everyone around you as much as possible, and Kombat Arts strives to help the community as much as possible…so again thanks for all of your help and support Kombat Arts!

Congratulations to the following for passing their testing in our Thai boxing system.  Everyone did very well and we look forward to everyone continuing their training and meeting future challenges head on!  Congrats to the following:

Green Phase: Joseph Buttaro, Matthew Chlebowski, Bhupinder Nijjer, Tomasz Bozek, Dale Tome, Christina Weber, Oz Komeili, Nelson Yeung, Daniel Vigna, Mladen Beganovic, Edwin Louie, Harinder Singh, Steve Fetterfly, Kareem Hackett and Jason Hammond.

 Advanced Green Phase: Craig Marenick and Michelle Sturino.

 Again Great Work Guys! Jd

They are finally in: Asics Gel Wrestling Knee pads, one of the best brand names out there.  Drop by the Kombat Arts ProShop to pick up a pair. Jd

Mark Bocek will be in the States  training for his upcoming fight in the UFC in Montreal. Good luck Mark!

This is another great highlight clip, featuring Serkan Yilmaz who is primarily a Tae Kwon Do martial artist who has learned how to apply his art to K1 Max (my favorite competition!).  I like this clip because he has an awesome spinning back kick and it shows it’s not the art that makes the man, but the man that makes the art.

TKD is usually not associated with K1 (usually arts like Thai boxing, Savate, boxing and Kyokushin Kai Karate are more associated with K1), but Serkan has adapted very well. 

James Ver from our Kombat Arts MMA class designed our newest Thai boxing shirt to add to our Kombat selection.  This is a beautiful shirt done in conjunction with Fairtex Canada!  Drop by and grab one from our proshop, and again thanks James and great work, Jd