K1 Oceania Max Photos
The following photos are provided courtesy of The Image Girl – Caitalin May. Check out the Image Girl's website for all your fight photos.
The following photos are provided courtesy of The Image Girl – Caitalin May. Check out the Image Girl's website for all your fight photos.
Exciting stuff, the first issue of Fight Times the e-Mag! Ten years as New Zealand's leader of martial arts magazines and first down under to go to a totally free online e-Mag. The good news is that we have taken all our writers, advertisers and advisors with us. We have also gained experts from around […]
Bob Gabersek was born in 1959 in the former Yugoslavia. His father was an Army captain first class. The young Bob attended college, where he studied sports and physical fitness, yet even before he began those studies, he had started his training in martial arts. He studied both Shoto Kan Karate and Wing Chun Kung […]
Jason Suttie has been training for thirteen years and this has changed his life from a young man getting into trouble on the streets to becoming a champion fighter and trainer of champions. Jason began his Muay Thai in Thailand when he went on an exchange program in the seventh form. Outside Jason's academic scholarship […]
The 2004 Junior World Championships will be held in from October 14 to 17 in Budapest, Hungary. The event is open to national junior teams from International Judo Federation member countries and it is anticipated that up to 100 countries will send national junior teams. This event is held every 2 years and competitors must […]
J.K.A.N.Z.'s Ron Fraser, head of the BUFFALO KARATE CLUB in Browns Bay on the shore recently lost his eldest son, Stephen, who died suddenly, 39. As a remembrance of him Ron has made a trophy, which is called, The 'Fritz' (Stephens nick name in the navy). Each year this trophy will to be presented to […]
What kind of build up did you do for the Olympics? (Lollo) We spent a week camping at the USA, another week in Vienna, and then Austria acclimatising before we went to Athens. Who did you use for sparring and where did you do your build up? (Doug) We did most of our sparring using […]
The city of Cebu in the Philippines recently hosted the 8th World Eskrima Kali Arnis Championships from June 22-28. The event held every two years attracts the best stick fighters from around the world to pit their skills against each other in full contact sparring competitions and forms. Twenty five countries from around the world […]
The Olympic Arena and Fight Times surpassed any of their previous world title shows with a real spectators treat of combat sport. The pre fight weigh in at the South Dunedin Civic video was a major success arranged through Tank and Norm Butler of Civic Video. Fight fans came to meet the fighters, watch the […]
Vincent Thomas Charles Smith 337062 Sergeant NZ SAS. 1934 to 1988. Vince Smith was born in Papakura on the 22nd of November 1934 to the late Roland Smith and Dorothy Smith. Vince had two brothers Roland and Michael and two sisters Rosemary and Sharon. On completing two years secondary education at Mt Albert Grammar School […]