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2008

BRITISH GOLDEN BELT KICKBOXING CHAMPION SCOTT "TOO HOT" GIBSON WINS HIS 8th K1 FIGHT

AS WELL AS BEING THE PROFESSIONAL BRITISH KICKBOXING CHAMPION SCOTT FOUGHT K1 ON THE 18th JULY.

SCOTT WON HIS FIGHT AND IS NOW UNBEATEN IN 8 K1 FIGHTS. SOMETIME LATER THIS YEAR SCOTT

WILL FIGHT FOR A K1 BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE AT THE HOTEL METREPOLE IN BRIGHTON.

K1 IS SIMILAR TO KICKBOXING, HOWEVER UNLIKE KICKBOXING IT ALLOWS, THROWS, LOW KICKS

TO THE LEGS. AND KNEE STRIKES TO ANYWHERE OF THE BODY EXCEPT TO THE GROIN OR BACK.

K1 ROUNDS ARE FOR 3 MINUTES UNLIKE 2 MINUTE ROUNDS OF KICKBOXING

THEREFORE A K1 FIGHTER NEEDS A LOT MORE STAMINA AND ENDURANCE THAN IN KICKBOXING

AS FOR SCOTT'S KICKBOXING FUTURE, HE WILL CHALLENGE FOR A EUROPEAN TITLE AT THE END OF THE YEAR

ALSO FIGHTING FOR SAMA ON THE SHOW WAS REMZI MEHMET (PIC LEFT) AND MATTEO AGUGIARO (PIC RIGHT).

don't let the KIDS miss out!!

PICTURES OF THE 2008 BRIGHTON CHILDREN'S INTERCLUB

IF YOU HAVE GOOD QUALITY PICTURES THAT YOU WANT TO GO ON THIS PAGE PLEASE EMAIL THEM TO

comp@samaorganisation.co.uk

SSSAMA KARATE KIDS SUMMER CAMP IS GOING TO BE GREAT FUNSa

for full information click on the karate tiger

then go to events page. This is not the Peacehaven camp

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Congratulations to

Sensei Scott Gibson

awarded his 3rd Dan Sunday 1st June 2008

Scott has been training for 23 years.

Like his older brother Lee, Scott has been training under his father

the SAMA Chief instructor since he was 3 years old

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Karate Kid Friday June 6th 2008

what it says

Article in the Argus newspaper

May 14th 2008

what it says

Also go to the SAMA karate archive for loads of past news

Past News 2008

We raised £1,357-31

from our sponsored event on 15th March 2008

Also go to the SAMA CHARITY archive page

for past news on our charity work

SAMA ORGANISATION

5th KickBoxing Inter-Club

Scott "TOO HOT" Gibson

THE CURRENT BRITISH GOLDEN BELT

PROFESSIONAL LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION

Successfully Defends his Title

At Hove Town Hall East Sussex On 12th April 2008

Scott was due to fight former champion Luke Sine's, however Sine's pulled out before the fight and

the promoter had to quickly find another suitable challenger.Matt Martin from Western Super-Mere

came forward to challenge Scott for his Title. At 6ft 2in Martin a former boxer and English kickboxing

champion with many years of experience, also being a former contender for the European IKF Title

Martin was clearly the man for the job. From the very start of the bell Martin was clearly out to grab

the Title away from Scott. Martin's plan seemed to be to attack Scott throughout the whole 7 rounds

of the fight, however I believe that Martin was surprised at Scott's power and stamina.

At times Scott stood toe to toe with Martin hitting him with some heavy punches and kicks where upon

Martin received a standing count in round two. This was a 7 x 2 minute round fight and although Martin's

past history showed that he was a dangerous and very experienced opponent Scott was told not to try

and knock Martin out and to go the whole 7 rounds. Our game plan was to build up Scott's stamina and

endurance as he is due to fight again in 2 weeks time at a K1 event at the same venue. This I can assure

you is no easy task and takes a lot of discipline for someone like Scott especially when he felt he had the

opportunity to do this a few times during the fight.

K1 kickboxing is 5 x 3 minute rounds that allows knee strikes and leg kicks, also you are allowed to grab

your opponent, wrestle and throw him down to the canvas. This sort of fighting especially over 3 minutes

per round compared to kickboxing's 2 minute rounds where you are only allowed to kick above the waist and

punch demands a tremendous amount of stamina, endurance and strength.

Although this was still an important fight for Scott and although I was told that Scott one every single round,

fighting Martin for the whole 7 rounds clearly helped Scott in his preparation for his K1 fight. Scott has won

all of his K1 fights and if he wins this one the next stop for Scott is a K1 Title shot and then hopefully a

European Kickboxing Title at the end of the year.

WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY CONGATULATIONS SCOTT

AND WELL DONE TO A GREAT SAMA FIGHTER

If you would like to train under Scott for fighting or training

then please go to the venue page

Scott runs kickboxing classes in Brighton and Hove.

Information to follow shortly

Some News in brief from 2007

starting with the end of the 2007 year

DECEMBER

Pictures of one of our Children's Christmas Disco Party

SAMA holds many area Christmas disco's for our young members

(pictures are of the Portslade party)

OCTOBER

SAMA INTRODUCES TAI CHI CHUAN KUNG-FU INTO IT'S ORGANISATION

NOVEMBER

POSTERS OF 2 OF OUR PREVIOUS KICKBOXING INTER-CLUBS

We hold 2 kick boxing inter-clubs a year for all our Kick boxing students.

Watch out for news of the next big one in 2008

AUGUST

TRAINING IN JAPAN

Hanshi's eldest son, Sensei Lee Gibson training in Japan

THE J.K.A. (JAPAN KARATE ASSOCIATION) DOJO HEADQUARTERS TOKYO, JAPAN

JKA BOARD

THE BLACKBELT CLASS - THE WEIGHT TRAINING SECTION

DAILY PUNCHING THE BOARDS (MAKIWARA) AND BAG PRACTICE IS COMMON

BELOW - TIME OUT TO RELAX

NEARING THE END OF TRAINING, SHAPING UP WELL FROM THOUSANDS OF PRESS-UPS - WEIGHTS

AND HARD JAPANESE KARATE PRACTICE

Above - Buddha and his straw shoes (zori) COR blimey he had big feet

After a hard day's training a nice meal of rice!

APRIL

FULL CONTACT KICKBOXING

Hanshi's middle son Scott takes (pic left) the I.K.F Southern Area Title in 2006,

then wins (pic right) the British Golden Belt Championship Title

on the 7th April at Hove Town Hall

APRIL

KARATE

SAMA Kumite Champion "Kanga" wins 1st place at the

National All Styles Karate Championships

go to the archive page for lots more

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