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2011 British Savate Kickboxing Champion
Fozzie - 20/7/11 at 01:57 PM

Well done and many congratulations to 'our' James, who, at the weekend became

2011 British Savate Kickboxing Champion...

Very well deserved ...

Fozzie

scootz - 20/7/11 at 01:59 PM

Congratulations!

steve m - 20/7/11 at 02:38 PM

Well done James

Steve

liam.mccaffrey - 20/7/11 at 02:45 PM

nice one james, good on

mookaloid - 20/7/11 at 02:48 PM

Congratulations James....er..... Sir ..............

scudderfish - 20/7/11 at 02:49 PM

I just googled "2011 British Savate Kickboxing Champion" and this thread was the 4th hit! Is there nothing Google doesn't see?

Liam - 20/7/11 at 02:53 PM

Oh well done you finally won! (or have you been champ before?).

I could still kick your arse though

steve m - 20/7/11 at 02:58 PM

hahaha, Liam,possibly only once though!

steve m - 20/7/11 at 03:01 PM

Is this sport an Olympic one as well,
As i caould actually know a possible medal contender!

That would be well cool

eddie99 - 20/7/11 at 03:18 PM

Congratulations! Pretty incredible achievement!

John Bonnett - 20/7/11 at 03:22 PM

Great stuff, James. I'm really pleased for you, well done.

Best wishes

John

Steve Hignett - 20/7/11 at 03:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by eddie99
Congratulations! Pretty incredible achievement!



You reckon?

I could EASILY have entered the comp and kicked James' Arse...




(assuming they let me use a gun from a safe distance)

Congrats James - awesome acheivement!
Isn't your bird like the hardest bird in UK too?

ATB,
Steve

Edited for speeling...

[Edited on 20/7/11 by Steve Hignett]

James - 20/7/11 at 04:13 PM

Ha! Didn't expect this Fozzie!
Thanks!


Thanks everyone!


Yeah, I've withheld my British Champion title again. I was also GB league champion this year which is a new scheme they've brought in.

The best thing about it is I'm 99% likely to be selected for TeamGB which is the British team going out to the European Championships in Genoa, Italy in September.



Liam,
As I said, I've won British Champs (or the previous equivalent) before now. It's the internationals which I'm yet to win. I won Silver at the 2010 Worlds, silver at the 2009 Euros. Really just want to better that this year.

Steve M,
Sadly it's not currently an Olympic sport. If Paris had won the 2012 (you may remember they were the favourites till Blair decided we had a spare £12Bn to spend) then it would have been at the Olympics as a demonstration sport. It looks like it might be coming (it now has all the pre-cursors to Olympic recognition) and I've seen the pictures of the Savate President meeting with the Olympic President. But I have a nasty feeling I'll be too old by the time it finally happens.

Steve Hignett,
Yeah, my girlfriend is really good.
British Champion, 2009 European Silver medal, 2010 World Silver medallist.
She also has competed at a pretty high level in Muay Thai kickboxing too.


So, onwards and upwards to the 2011 Euros and 2012 Worlds!


Cheers,
James

[Edited on 20/7/11 by James]

westf27 - 20/7/11 at 04:24 PM

Sounds like fun in your house friday nights

James - 20/7/11 at 04:33 PM

quote:
Originally posted by westf27
Sounds like fun in your house friday nights


Haha! It probably is a little more violent that most (non-abusive) households! But we're pretty good and it 99.9% of the time stays in the gym.
It's funny, I've know couples that have far more violent relationships than my girlfriend and I, and they don't spend >4 sessions a week practicing to beat each other up!

We're both pretty competitive so we don't even tend to spar at classes any more. It just tends to escalate past where it should until someone gets hurt. It's similar with the twins that we train with. They're fine with anyone else, but get them together and they'll take lumps out of each other all session!


Cheers,
James

Jon Ison - 20/7/11 at 05:16 PM

Would like to add my congratulations to, that's 2 British champions I know now.

Jasper - 21/7/11 at 09:27 AM

Yeah - whatever, I could still kick your butt ........

Though I'm sure Rachel would kick mine ............

Well done mate

jabbahutt - 21/7/11 at 11:12 AM

congratulations, an incredible achievement.

pewe - 21/7/11 at 11:37 AM

Well done, James.
When/where for the Genoa event?
We are on hols near there so could come and cheer you on/wave the flag if dates tally.
Cheers, Pewe

eddie99 - 21/7/11 at 11:56 AM

quote:
Originally posted by pewe
Well done, James.
When/where for the Genoa event?
We are on hols near there so could come and cheer you on/wave the flag if dates tally.
Cheers, Pewe


Im also going to be near Genoa Mid september so let us know

mads - 21/7/11 at 12:40 PM

congrats! very well done indeed.

nick205 - 22/7/11 at 11:35 AM

Congratulations - Great achievement James!

Best of luck for the future goals too.