Please make a note in your diaries and on your calendars about the following two seminars coming up here in Cambridge within the next 4 weeks:

SEMINAR ONE
Savate Kickboxing with Gilles le Duigou:

This seminar is (another) chance to meet and train Savate (kickboxing) with the legendary Gilles le Duigou. He will be with us in Cambridge on 26/27th May - yes, only about three weeks away. Sorry for the late notification but Gilles was only able to confirm that he could come just a few days ago.


DETAILS:

Dates: Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th May, 2007
Venue: St. Bede's School Sports Complex, Birdwood Road, Cambridge. CB1 3TD
Times: 11.00am - 4.00pm each day
Costs: CAMA/GBSF Members: £40 all weekend (£30 Student), £25 One-day only (£20 Student)
Others: £50 for the weekend, £30 One-day only

We urge everyone interested in attending this seminar to let us know as soon as possible please, via e-mail: info@cama.org.uk or by telephone: 01223 565020


SEMINAR TWO
Filipino Martial Arts 'Master's Seminar' featuring Master Percival 'Val' Pableo (9th Degree Black Belt) and Grandmaster Danny Guba (10th Degree):

We first met Val in Kent last year and were so impressed we just had to ask Grandmaster Danny Guba to invite him up to Cambridge when he was over from the Philippines next time.

And so, in less than a months time, both of these world-renowned Masters of the Filipino Martial Arts will come to Cambridge to conduct a joint seminar together for us.


DETAILS:

Date: Sunday 3rd June, 2007
Venue: St. Bede's School Sports Complex, Birdwood Road, Cambridge. CB1 3TD
Times: 11.00am - 5.00pm
Costs: £40 (pre-registered) Cheques to CAMA, PO Box 29, Cambridge, CB1 3LB
£50 on-the-door (assuming any places are still available)

We urge everyone interested in attending this seminar to pre-register as soon as possible please.


FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT OUR GUESTS:

SAVATE - A brief biography of Gilles le Duigou

More than 30 years in Savate

114 competitive fights in total (rough breakdown in brackets):

Savate (60) only lost 4 times in Savate competition; English Boxing (20) 14 amateur and 6 Pro fights (won 4, lost 2) was amateur Boxing Champion of Paris, and winner of two other amateur tournaments; Kickboxing (14); and Full-Contact (20). One of Gilles' Full-Contact trainers was the legendary Dominic Valera.

In 1985, Gilles fought and beat the fabulous Francois Pennacchio in the semi-finals of the French Championships. After losing the first round, to the highly-skilled and fast kicking Pennacchio, Gilles switched tactics and used his English Boxing skills to win the next four rounds.

(Pennacchio later went on to defeat Ramon Dekkers, the Thai Boxing legend, in a kickboxing challenge match. "The Dutch sensation fought in Milan in the 1990s losing a spectacular match against French Savate Champion Francois Pennacchio. Nobody expected Pennacchio to last more than a few minutes, but the Frenchman found out that Savate sweeps were effective against Dekkers and used them to build a victory on points.")

In 1986 (before there was an official World Championships), Gilles beat everyone he met in the ring, including Daklaoui (Fr), to become Champion of Europe. In that same year, he also fought a Japanese Full-Contact fighter, who was an extremely powerful kicker. Gilles had been ill in the weeks before the fight and, possibly as a result of that, he had both arms broken when he tried to block a particularly strong round kick. Gilles continued to fight, even though he knew one of his arms was broken, and eventually knocked out his opponent in the fourth round with a fouetté (whip kick) to the liver.


ESKRIMA - Master Percival Pableo and Grandmaster Danny Guba:

Percival 'Val' Pableo (9th Degree Black Belt Master Instructor)
Please click on the following link to find out more about Master Percival "Val" Pableo: http://www.dannyguba.co.uk/html/val_pableo.html

Danny Guba (10th Degree Black Belt Grandmaster Instructor)
Began training in 1964 under Grandmasters Cacoy and Momoy Canete. Since 1986 he also trained under Grandmaster Dionisio Canete. Danny has been five times World Champion, in full-contact stick fighting and forms competitions.


Best wishes,


Pugil