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WHO ARE WE
SKA is the SaXon Kickboxing Academy formed in Birmingham in
Jan 2009 and is fronted by Tyler Shakespeare who is assisted
by his father Alan. Affilaited to the WKA ( World Kickboxing
Association ) it principles are simple, to teach promote and
further the sport of Full Contact Kickboxing and self defence.
IT'S ALL IN THE NAME
Our gym name Saxon is taken from the early Germanic settlers
that populated the Southern and Eastern terrortories of England
during and after the 5th century which later formed the beginning
of what is widely recognised as the English Nation as we know
it today. Further to this SKA is indicative of a modern popular
musical era that formed a bond between the traditionally white
British youth of the 1960's and the migration to this country
of West Indian economic settlers. In the 1960s, a lot of young
people in Jamaica were unemployed and crime and violence increased
in proportion to their frustration and despondency. Reflecting
this mood, the music of the time took a harder edge. Ska became
the music of the disaffected, the Rude Boys. The lyrics started
to chronicle the times. Ska rapidly spread to the West Indian
community in England and was quickly adopted by the early
skinheads, whose dress and hairstyles were influenced by the
Rude Boys. But consumately formed a multi ethincal bond that
has been ever present to this day. It is this ideal of multi
racalism that we promote as our standard with the two tone
colours of the SKA movement forming the choice of gym attire.
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WHAT DO WE DO
The term Full Contact is preceived to have many definitions,
but the one we here at SKA adhere too is the definition of
Sport Kickboxing, having the rules of striking kicks and punches
above the waist disallowing elbow and knees. A mixture of
traditional martial arts kicking techniques and modern queensbury
rules boxing forms the basis of what is taught, and practiced,
this system also provides an extremely effective form of self
defence. Whilst competetive Full Contact Kickboxing forms
the core ideal practice senario, the education of it's practitioners
is paramount to our ideals, and here at SKA we firmly believe
in the recognised educative structure, with it's basis being
in the practice of Light Continuous Kickboxing at junior level,
with a progression into Jnr Full contact onto Amatuer Full
contact and finally culminating in the participation of Full
Contact at Proffessional level. It is within this structure
that the SKA gym supports all levels of the afore mentioned
Championing Both the BLCC ( British Light Continuous Council
) and Jnr Full Contact diciplines, on to the formation of
a fully supported Amatuer structure which in turn supports
a better standard of proffessional circuit, which from, a
better, more prosperous future for the sport can be achieved.
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