ARCHIVE NEWS
2007 OVERVIEW
It has been a great year for the Lumpini Club what with the opening of our new full time gym in Southampton and great successes in competitions.
There are many students this year who have shown great commitment to their training and this is evident in the individual progress they have made. We have had some great performances from interclubs to professional competitions both in Thai Boxing and MMA.
Also we had the great seminar with Khunpinit Kaewsamrit earlier in the year and held both interclubs and our hugely successful Capital Punishment Event in London. Well done to Dan Hope, who in the past six months has had many wins and took the UKMF English Title in October. Also, well done to Graham Lewis, Tom Watson and Ondrej Stary for their successes in Thai Boxing and K1 this year. Also, Tom Watson has had great year competing at Cage Rage and got the opportunity to go and train with Randy Couture in the U.S. Well done to all of you for representing the gym and yourselves so well.
It has also be a year tainted by sadness due to the death of our dear friend and former fighter Stuart Wright, but Stuart was a great advocate to 'having a laugh', enjoying life and always smiling, so we take his memory with us into a positive, successful and great 2008. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone..
GYM CLOSURE
The gym will be closed from the 23/12/07 - 02/01/08 for our annual break.
Re-opening as per normal on the 3rd January 2008
TIMETABLE CHANGES AS AT 07/01/2008
New Class: Wednesday 6.00-7.00pm - Boxing
New Course Date: Additional Beginners Course: Tuesday 6.00-7.00pm
Time Change: Wednedays Beginners Course will now start at 7.00pm
Cancelled Class: Saturday 12.30-2.00pm-Thai Boxing
Course Achievements - December 2007
Well done to all those who showed compentence and attendance to be awarded for the below courses.
Beginners Course B807: Sophia Cameron, Dionne Cullen, Rebecca Brotherton, Matthew Lakeman, Kyle Barara, Chris Davis, Matt Bahooshy, Ian Haberfield, Dean Bowden, Sam Donaldson, Jamie Khan, Jagdeep Khela, Ranveer Rana and Ali Ansari.
Improvers Course I307: Amanda Khouv, Alex Doyle, Steve Atkinson, Jason Layfield, Jon Wellstead, Martin Leach, Matthew Fry, Dan Wade, Neil Harrison and Richard Burlingham.
Improvers Plus+ Course IPP207: Robert Batten, Ian Batten, Gary Batten, Tim Houlston, Tom Hopkins, Philip Smith and Darren Carr.
8th December 2007 @ The Ocean Gym
AMATEUR MMA COMPETION
Well done to all the lads that competed at our first interclub/amateur MMA competition against Jeff Lawson's team from Bulldog Gym, Bournemouth. Also well done to Trevor Birmingham and Sean Toomey for getting the lads to this level in a short space of time. Everyone did the gym and themselves proud and special well done to Simon Eastwood for taking a second bout on the day against a much larger opponent. Excellent performances by all and a good start for future competitions.
The Lumpini fighters were: Daryl Vaughan, Simon Eastwood, Ken Jones, Clayton Spencer, Mike Clarke, Dan Hope, Michael Carroll, Michael Hawkins, Simon Jura, Dave McKenzie-Phillips, Nick Kazakos, Lee Taylor, Marco Crispini, Tom Burrows and Graham Lewis.
1st December 2007 @ Wembley Arena
CAGE RAGE
Tom 'Kong' Watson takes on Mark 'the beast' Epstein, on this top line up.
Good Luck Tom!!
ARCHIVE NEWS
2007 OVERVIEW
It has been a great year for the Lumpini Club what with the opening of our new full time gym in Southampton and great successes in competitions.
There are many students this year who have shown great commitment to their training and this is evident in the individual progress they have made. We have had some great performances from interclubs to professional competitions both in Thai Boxing and MMA.
Also we had the great seminar with Khunpinit Kaewsamrit earlier in the year and held both interclubs and our hugely successful Capital Punishment Event in London. Well done to Dan Hope, who in the past six months has had many wins and took the UKMF English Title in October. Also, well done to Graham Lewis, Tom Watson and Ondrej Stary for their successes in Thai Boxing and K1 this year. Also, Tom Watson has had great year competing at Cage Rage and got the opportunity to go and train with Randy Couture in the U.S. Well done to all of you for representing the gym and yourselves so well.
It has also be a year tainted by sadness due to the death of our dear friend and former fighter Stuart Wright, but Stuart was a great advocate to 'having a laugh', enjoying life and always smiling, so we take his memory with us into a positive, successful and great 2008. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone..
GYM CLOSURE
The gym will be closed from the 23/12/07 - 02/01/08 for our annual break.
Re-opening as per normal on the 3rd January 2008
TIMETABLE CHANGES AS AT 07/01/2008
New Class: Wednesday 6.00-7.00pm - Boxing
New Course Date: Additional Beginners Course: Tuesday 6.00-7.00pm
Time Change: Wednedays Beginners Course will now start at 7.00pm
Cancelled Class: Saturday 12.30-2.00pm-Thai Boxing
Course Achievements - December 2007
Well done to all those who showed compentence and attendance to be awarded for the below courses.
Beginners Course B807: Sophia Cameron, Dionne Cullen, Rebecca Brotherton, Matthew Lakeman, Kyle Barara, Chris Davis, Matt Bahooshy, Ian Haberfield, Dean Bowden, Sam Donaldson, Jamie Khan, Jagdeep Khela, Ranveer Rana and Ali Ansari.
Improvers Course I307: Amanda Khouv, Alex Doyle, Steve Atkinson, Jason Layfield, Jon Wellstead, Martin Leach, Matthew Fry, Dan Wade, Neil Harrison and Richard Burlingham.
Improvers Plus+ Course IPP207: Robert Batten, Ian Batten, Gary Batten, Tim Houlston, Tom Hopkins, Philip Smith and Darren Carr.
8th December 2007 @ The Ocean Gym
27/11/07 @ The Ocean Gym: Tom pictured (back, centre) at his last pre-fight training session along with his trainer Sean Toomey (3rd from right), UFC fighter Drew Fickett (far right), 'Cowboy' (3rd from left) and lads from the Gorilla Academy.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT EVENT
Congratulations to all the fighters who competed at this year's event and thank you to the helpers and spectators who made this show such an success. This show was in memory of our good friend and former fighter Stuart Wright who was sadly killed in Iraq in July 2007. On the show we also managed to raise close to £1000 for the SSAFA charity, which was the charity of choise of Stuart's family. So thank you for all those that donated money to this cause.
Well done to all the Lumpini Kent team and especially to Justin Hudson for returning to ring after a 14 year retirement to fight in honour of Stuart. Also, well done to Adam Grew on his Southern Area Title win by 2nd round KO.
A DVD is available of the event and can be purchased from www.idealvideo.co.uk
Photos of the event can be seen on www.kophoto.co.uk
Full results can be found on the promotions results page or click on the below link.
Course Achievements - November 2007
Congratulations to the following for completion of their courses in November and showing compentence in the skills taught.
Awarded were the following:
Beginners Course B707: Amanda Khouv, Kirsty Forder, Alex Doyle, Steve Atkinson, Ben Howe, Ed Nicholls, Christian Parkins, Jason Layfield, Jon Wellstead, Ben Allen, Neil Harrison and Richard Burlingham.
Improvers Course I207: Mike Warman
Improvers Plus Course IP107: Karen Kavde, Matt Jetten, Robert Batten, Ian Batten, Gary Batten, Clayton Spencer, Wayne Martin, Tim Houlston, Tom Hopkins, Ken Jones, Philip Smith and Darren Carr.
27th October 2007 - Squad Training and Social Night
Squad Training: 2.00-5.00pm. Open to all Lumpini members this is a free session giving everyone the opportunity to train with members of our satelite gyms at Lumpini's home, the Ocean Gym, Southampton.
Social Night: 7.30pm onwards, venue TBC but a bar/club somewhere in Southampton, all welcome, bring your partners/friends along
7th October 2007 Warriors IX, Liquid/Envy Nightclub, Crawley
Dan Hope WINS - Crowned the new UKMF English Champion @ 76kg
The Battle of the Lumpini Gyms, as Dan took on Ben Barwise of the Lumpini Crawley Gym to contest the English Title. Over five exciting rounds Dan took the decision - a full fight report to follow. Well Done Dan!!
16th September 2007 - Battle of Britain, Ayr, Scotland
Dan Hope WIN/Ondrej Stary LOSS
Lumpini Gym matches: Thai Boxing rules fighting in a cage
Dan Hope beat Gareth Adams (Woosabama Gym, Scotland) by way of 3rd round KO, by devastating knees.
Ondrej Stary lost against Chris Shaw (Woosabama Gym, Scotland)
THAI BOXING COURSES
Photos: Improvers Course: Above, Wayne Martin delivering a great knee
B807, 6 week Beginners Course - Starts 14th November 2007
All courses have been full with an additional instructor being placed on the last two courses due to the high number of students. Please book early for the new course to secure your place.
I307, 6 week Improvers Course - Starts 12th November 2007
The follow on course for those completing the beginners course and proving to be a great success.
IP207, 6 week Improvers PLUS - Starts 15th November 2007
Due to demand we now run a Improvers PLUS course, this will be the second 'PLUS' course.
Click here for further information
http://www.oceangym.co.uk/coursedetails.html
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Congratulations to the following students on completion and compentence of their courses in September 2007:
Beginners B607:Mona Christeinsen, Nicola Wigginton, Anna Navarro, Lucy Howlett, Dan Wade, Mike Warman, Paul Brown, Matt Fry, Phillip Horton, Matt Meadus, Adam Stratta and Jeff Rogers.
Improvers I107:Karen Kavde, Wayne Martin, Clayton Spencer, Matt Jetten, Rick Hampson, Ken Jones, Tim Houlston, Tom Hopkins, Phil Smith, Darren Carr, Gary Batten, Ian Batten and Robert Batten.
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