2009
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Sat 20-06-09:John Will held a seminar at
P.U.M.M.A. on the Gold Coast. 9 K.M.M.A. club
members Melissa Logan, Bobby Dixon, Chris Fechner, Alex Gatti, Joe Perry, David Behrendt, Dan Gaslevich,
Boh Burima and George Jukes all made the trip down.
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Sat 14-02-09:John Will held a seminar at
P.U.M.M.A. on the Gold Coast. 5 K.M.M.A. club
members made the 2 and a half hour trip to the coast to take part in the seminar which despite the
rain attracted a large crowd from clubs over South East Queensland. Club members Jason Slater, George Jukes,
David Behrendt, Melissa Logan and Ilija Sansja all enjoyed the opportunity to learn from John's 20+ years
of BJJ experience. Check out our gallery for more pictures from the day.
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Sat 07-02-09: 4 K.M.M.A. members took part in the Enemy on the
Floor competition held at the Toowoomba PCYC on Saturday. Club members James Mckay, Stuart Hintz,
Jason Slater and Melissa Logan all put in a good showing on the day with Melissa taking first place in
the open ladies division of the submission wrestling section. Congratulations to all the competitors
and thanks to all the club members who came out to support them on the day.
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Personal Goals For 2009
To continually keep myself and K.M.M.A. evolving for the future.
Especially in the areas of
- keeping up to date with the latest in training technology
- increasing students development of skill level and flexible attitudes to change
When training for my Brown Belt I was travelling to the coast once a fortnight and decided that after
achieving this level I would have some time off. However once I was graded, it gave me such a buzz that
I was motivated to train more, and start travelling once a week to the coast.
Club Goals For 2009
To increase club fellowship amongst club members by, travelling to competitions and fight
nights as a club and holding club BBQ’s, and pizza nights at Pizza Hut (these are a few examples).
To Develop a group of instructors, to achieve this I need to finalise the
KMMA Instructors Manual (which I have been working on for quite awhile). This will add a
professionalism to the class instructor and a consistancy to the classes.
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2008
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Thur 18-12-08: What a night! Thunder, lightning and 4 new brown belts.
Kachi club members travelled down to P.U.M.M.A.
on the Gold Coast to see K.M.M.A. head coach Joe Perry presented with his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Brown
Belt. With over 50 people present representing not only Kachi and P.U.M.M.A. but also clubs from
Brisbane and an actual Brazilian contingent, it was a great night of training which concluded with a belt
presentation ceremony where 7 members of P.U.M.M.A. were presented with new belts. 2 blue belts were presented
along with 1 purple belt, and our own head coach received one of the 4 brown belts presented on the night.
Congratulations to Joe from all of us at K.M.M.A., we're looking forward to training with Toowoomba's
first BJJ brown belt in the new year.
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Sun 23-11-08: Three of our Juniors travelled down to Brisbane to participate in the Martial Arts Queensland
Open Junior BJJ competition held at Toowong on the 23rd of November 2008. Kaylena Behrendt placed
4th in her division, Joshua Wilson placed 3rd in his division, and Bradley Perry placed first
in his division winning all his 4 rounds via submission. Congratulations to all the competitiors you did the
club proud.
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Sat 11-10-08: We held a grading day at the new gym.
KMMA orange level was achieved by James McKay. In the Muay Thai/Kickboxing Gerard Ball and Daniel
Gaslevich attained gold t-shirt level. Congratulations to the guys on a job well done. Check out our
class gallery for pictures.
Sat 27-09-08: KMMA club members Melissa Logan, Bobby Dixon,
George Jukes, David Behrendt, and Guy Bradney travelled to P.U.M.M.A.
on the Gold Coast to attend a BJJ seminar run by John Will. The seminar was fun and the students
benefited greatly from John's teaching style and BJJ experience. See
Gallery for more pictures.
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Wed 17-09-08: We held our first grading night at the new club training centre.
KMMA Gold level was achieved by Bobby Dixon and Daniel Gaslevich. Congratulations to Bobby and Daniel and thanks
to all the club members who showed up on the night to support the guys.
Sat 13-09-08: The BJJ Australasia Asia-Pacific Championships
were held in Melbourne today. Three of our club members made the trip to Melbourne to participate.
Well done to Joe and Bradley Perry and George Jukes.
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Sat 06-09-08: We held our official opening day for the new club
training centre at Isaac St. Queensland's first Machado BJJ Black belt
Vincent Perry marked the occasion by running 2 seminars, one on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and one on
Muay Thai / MMA. There was a great turn out on the day and we'd like to thank Vincent and the guys from his
club P.U.M.M.A. on the Gold Coast for making
the trip out to help us celebrate our move to the full time premises.
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Sat 30-08-08: Congratulations to Bobby Dixon who took
second place in the 100+ division for both the Grappling and Striking sections of the Australian
All Styles Grappling and Striking Tournament held in Toowoomba on Saturday. Bobby went into the
tournament with no preparation having decided the day before that he would compete, he entered to
experience the enjoyment and the different atmosphere that is gained from
competition and did the club proud.
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Tue 19-08-08: We had our first training session at Isaac street.
It was a great night with around 15 students training including some new faces. There were one or two
people a little upset about not having to set up mats anymore but we talked them through it.
Wed 13-08-08: We had our last training session at the Toowoomba
State High School Hall, Starting Tuesday 19-08-08 we'll be moving in to our new full time training centre
at 57 Isaac Street. Congratulations to Bobby Dixon and Gerard Ball on receiving stripes for their belts.
Mon 2-06-08: I have announced we will be shifting to a full
time premises at i3/57 Isaac street. At this stage the official opening day will be Saturday the 6th
of September 2008. We will be holding two seminars on the day, both run by Queenslands first Machado
BJJ Black Belt
Vincent Perry!
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Joe Perry and George Jukes |
Sat 31-5-08: Wow!! In our short history of 13 years this is our highest level achieved in the adult classes. Congratulations to George Jukes.
George was graded to “Black Level” (probationary). He completed 21 rounds of sparing comprising of 10 BJJ, 3 BJJ with strikes (wearing MMA gloves, standing and on ground, strikes to the head with knee, elbow and leg locks) 5 submission wrestling, 3 MMA and finally 3 Muay Thai. It was similar to a marathon except I made the decision when it was going to finish, when George had nothing else to give, about 1.5 hours later.
I invited Rock Hard, Rings Toowoomba and P.U.M.M.A. (Gold Coast) to be involved with the sparing. Of course because of distance P.U.M.M.A. couldn’t be involved. I have to thank Pete Davis and Paul Beckman (Rock Hard Gym) for honouring us by doing 2 rounds each. They were both very impressed with how well George went.
In attendance on the day, were 12 students from K.M.M.A., Chris Clayton from Fight World and Anthony and Bernie from the local Zen Do Kai Club. In total there would have been 25 spectators (including friends and family members) to witness just how hard it was and just how deep George went to complete the rounds.
Refer to K.M.M.A. Grading Honour Board for more details of the grading and Georges training background also
refer to the K.M.M.A. Photo Gallery for more photos.
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Sat. 17-5-08: We had a grading day at TSHS basketball stadium. In the juniors 6-12yrs we had Joshua
Wilson attain his blue level. In the seniors 13-16yrs Gold level was attained by Tristan Sorensen and
Adam Cordingley. In the MMA, Gold level was attained by Gail Kirkpatrick, Melissa Logan, Gerard Ball and
Guy Bradney. Blue (white stripe) was attained by Darrin Pearson. George Jukes was successful in
demonstrating the techniques required to be graded for his probationary black level. His next step is
going through the conditioning and sparing assessment that is required, up to 20 rounds of sparring.
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Joe Perry and David Behrendt |
Sat. 10-5-08: Training at P.U.M.M.A. at Burleigh on the Gold Coast. George Jukes, Sean Lees, Guy Bradney and David Behrendt made the 2.5 hour trek down to get some extra training in. I personally train at P.U.M.M.A. every two weeks and I like students that want to take their training to next level, to make it once a month, preferably on a Thursday.
David was awarded his BJJ Blue Belt. He has achieved this through time (6.5 years) and consistency to training and being an excellent club person (we must get that right lol) always there helping with the juniors and new students in a mentoring role.
Sean was awarded an extra stripe he now has 4 towards his Blue Belt. Sean hasn’t been training all that long (approx. 14 months), he has a real natural feel for BJJ shows consistency in his efforts at training and is always looking at learning new
things, he is like a sponge for picking up new techniques. Sean has also acquainted himself quite well in the
MMA arena with 3 fights (2W, 1L) under his belt. The latest being at X-agon in Sydney on Fri. 28-3-08 (fought
in a cage) where he won 4 minutes into the 1st round by rolling armbar from back control. I was very proud
of this outcome because it was something that I had taught him and we had been working hard on.
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