2007

Brian Beauchamp on Fire

Brian ate up the competition at Grapplers Quest West Coast Championships in Las Vegas, and came away a champion. To read more on this story, click here.

Team Kombat Boxer Amazing

Congratulations to Pedram Maleki for his stellar performance at the Ontario Boxing Championships.  Pedram qualified to compete in the Nationals in Vancouver and ultimately won Bronze.  Awesome work and congratulate him and his coach Rafael Delgado!  Thanks to Jeff Borg for his generous contributions to help our athletes achieve their goals.

Congratulations to the following for passing the following levels in Thai boxing:

Green

Brian Naidu
Mustafa Almawlawi
Scott Harris
Adam Fleury
Brad Graham
Reginald Evans
Nikola Jerbic
Kyron Cameron
Jakub Mulik
Michael Boychuk
Andrew Zaremba

Advanced Green

Mark Rabo
Jacques Malillin
Larysa Krawec
Paulo Francillo
Steve Siderius
Cheryl McConnell
Murray McConnell

Congrats Erik Paulson

Erik Paulson recently fought in MMA and defeated his opponent Jeff Ford by arm bar in a few minutes into the 1st round.  The Kombat Arts Training Academy is home to four of Erik’s Combat Submission Wrestling instructors: Joey de Los Reyes, Linda de Los Reyes, Randy F. and John Cadiz.  All of us are proud of his come back match!

Golf Tournament

Recently, the Kombat Arts Training Academy helped support the 33rd Annual Golf Tournament hosted by Peel Regional Police Association and Peel Regional Police Athletic Association.  The event was a great success and proceeds from this event went to the Special Olympics and the PRP-AA.

Congrats to our Muay Thai Fighters

Marc Mendoza and Paulo Dultra trained very hard for the 1st CASK Provincial Thai boxing Championships.  Marc won his division by walk over; unfortunately his opponent was not able to compete and Paulo earned the Silver, losing a very close split decision to Jermaine Haughton from Point Blank.  Great work guys, now we train for the Nationals!

Congratulations to Frank Marques

Let’s congratulate our coach Frank Marques for being on the show and winning Keys to the VIP. Great job Frank and way to slay the competition!

Seasons Beatings News

Congrats to Lee for winning his bout at “Season’s Beatings” Thai boxing match held by Point Blank in Aurora.  Lee was really challenged as he stepped up to a more experienced athlete and had to show his ability to adapt to a game opponent.  Noel Garcia was supposed to compete also, but unfortunately his opponent did not make weight; but we all applaud all of the hard work that Noel put in.  Great work guys, we look forward to more adventures in 2008!

Joey acquires new title

Congratulations to our very own Joey de Los Reyes as he has now filled in the position as Co-Director of Competitions for the Thai Boxing Committee of the Council of Amateur Kickboxing (CASK).  Joey is very honored to be asked to fill in this position and will do his best to further the goals of CASK and the Thai boxing athletes of Ontario.

Kombat Boxing Representing Canada

Congratulations to Mohammed Feroze Abedeen and Andrew for their win in the Scotland vs Canada Boxing 2007 Tournament. Thanks for representing the Kombat Arts and Canada!

Mohammed on a Tear Once Again

Congratulations to Mohammed Feroze Abedeen for his placement in the Ringside World Champion Tournament.  Mo won the quarter finals with a win over an athlete from Puerto Rico, than he won the semi finals with a win over an athlete from the United States.  Mo was on his way to a gold medal win, but unfortunately during the final bout, the referee stepped on Mo’s foot, spraining his ankle and unfortunately forcing Mo to forfeit the bout.  Mo came home with a silver medal, but we know full well that he deserved a gold win.

Kombat at Siam

Congrats to Chris Salvatore and Noel Garcia for competing in the CASK sanctioned Thai boxing bout hosted by our friends from Siam #1.  Both of them represented the Kombat Arts very well and we look forward to them competing again in the near future.

Muay Thai Instructors

Congratulations to David Edwards for accomplishing his Level 1 and 2, Assistant Instructorship and Joey de Los Reyes for completing his Level 3 Instructor course under Mehdi Pouroskoui of KB-1, Vancouver.  David really trained hard while in BC and we are proud of both of their accomplishments.

Mansfield Mayhem 3

Congrats to Frank Marques, Kearn, Chris Abate, Jeffrey Hsiung and Stephane Paulin and their efforts in Mansfield Mayhem 3, Mixed Martial Arts event held in Ohio.  Again thanks to all of the coaches and supporting staff that helped these athletes. 

Congratulations to the following for passing their Thai boxing grading

Advanced Green

• Michael O'donnel

Green

• Jeremy Giles
• Sara Frankland
• Joanie Bellavance-Gaudreau
• Lucian Ciubotaru
• Richard Pascual
• Aamer Ghory
• Pat Tran
• Mustafa Ansari

San Shou

Congratulations to Isabelle Ekoko for winning her San Shou match and earning a place to compete in China in an international San Shou tournament.  Isabelle and her team mates hooked up with Kombat Arts to work on their stand up with Kru Joey and Team Kombat.  Good luck to Isabelle as she competes this November.

Team Bocek

On Saturday August 18, Danny Hale, Fadi Nader, Steve Simms, Barry Simms, Andrew McInnes and Mark Bocek competed at the North East Grappling Challenge in Ithaca, New York.

Team Bocek beat 3 tough teams to win the team championships. Steve Simms also won the under 175lbs advanced Barry Simms took 4th. Mark Bocek won the under 189lbs advanced division.

Amir Yafawi

Congratulations to our resident blue belt for making it to the quarter finals at the Mundials, one of the most prestigious grappling tournaments in the world. Amir lost 4-2 in the quarter finals in a tough battle. Overall Amir outscored his opponents 48-4. Outstanding job!

Lary Hartsell

It is with great regret that we announce the passing of Sifu Larry Hartsell. Mr. Hartsell was a martial arts teacher and author, most well known for his involvement with Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do. He passed away on Monday August 20, 2007

Mr. Hartsell has had a direct impact on the instructors at Kombat Arts. Kru Joey obtained his 1st martial arts instructorship under Larry Hartsell and Marc Mendoza, Dave Lanyon and Calvin Millar have all trained under him at one point.

Mehdi fights again

The Hulk competes at the Commonwealth Games and Canada Cup

Congrats to Shawn Geris who came in 4th in the 120 kg Greco Roman Division at the Commonwealth Championships and 3rd in the 120 kg Greco Roman Division at the Canada Cup.

Sly the new champ

Congrats to Sly for winning the CMTA North American Championship! Thanks to Lee for helping out Sly as his main sparring and training partner, Daniel Gallucci  for conditioning and Rafael for his support and boxing expertise.  Also great work Patricia Soltysiak for her impromptu exhibition match and last minute.  Thanks Patricia for the great work. Pics here.

Animal Services

Joey de Los Reyes recently held a 2 day self defense course specifically for the Animal Services of the City of Mississauga.  Topics included use of force, awareness development skills, how to identify pre-attack indicators, physiological effects of combat on the body, how to defend against the common “sucker” punch, escaping common holds and grabs, an introduction to basic groundfighting and an introduction to basic edged weapon defense.  The program was very well received and hopefully we will see these officers training at our academy.  For more information on self defense and law enforcement training, please call Joey at 416.517.4440.

School Retreat

Kombat Arts was recently a host for the Harold M. Brathwaite Secondary School for their field trip and first journey into mixed martial arts.  The kids had a great time and there was definitely a lot of potential for future champions!  Thanks to Hector and Nick for coordinating this event.

Congrats to Brian for winning the Canadian Judo Championships. Click here to read the article.

JKD Testing

Congrats to the Jeet Kune Do concepts graduates for passing their testing involving mixed martial arts skills. Following are the new graduates' new rankings

Green

• Stephane Paulin
• Mark Gordon
• Daniel Chancey
• Mauricio Alvarez

Muay Thai Testing

Congrats to our Thai boxing graduates for passing their Muay Thai testing. Following are the new graduates new rankings:

Advanced White

• Sara Frankland
• Joanie Bellavance-Gaudreau

Green

• Nowell Dupont
• Catherine Dickson
• Steve Matthews
• Joanie Bellavance-Gaudreau
• Sara Frankland
• Rohan Larmond
• Andrew Duncan
• Michael Pacheco
• Eric Frempong
• Craig Marenick
• Michael O'Donnell
• Jeremy MacCallum
• James Bragg
• Salman Ali
• Jennifer Pinheiro
• Ryan Magee
• Roshan Patel
• Christian Matias
• J.P. Gregorio
• Karim Elias
• Nabeel Rkieh
• Kevin Espinosa
• Ivan Lekic
• Dorothy Pan
• Paulo Fraucillo
• Manny Sidhu
• Daniel North
• Daniel Brkan
• Pierre Donatien
• Linda Aquila
• Sandra Aquila
• Michael Karkula
• Jeremy Giles
• Jiries Nimer
• Matthew Loton
• Lukas Turczyn
  

Advanced Green

• Andre Rhoden
• Danny Capitao

Mayhem in May

May 12 we hosted Mayhem in May, a boxing show that consisted of 14 bouts. The place was packed with fans and supporters. Participating clubs came from all over, including Waterloo, Brampton, Kitchener and Niagara Falls. The Kombat Arts Boxing Team did very well winning 4 bouts out of 5!

• Lisette Gonzales opened up the night's events with a good match, but unfortunately lost the decision in her bout.
• Jackie Jachna came out pressing the action to win her bout by unanimous decision.
• Lexton Bates delivered some precise hard shots on his bout to effectively win his match by stoppage in the 1st round!
• Stephen Zea at the age of 17 dropped his Senior opponent early in the 1st round and proceeded to chop at his opponent with punches, however his opponent was more than game and would not be put down easily. Zea was proving to be too much and won the bout via decision and earned one of the awards for the Fight of the Night.
• Mohammed Abedeen fought an exciting fight against a difficult lanky southpaw. Mo demonstrated great footwork, good clinch skills and after picking his opponent apart and landing some hard body shots, Mo stopped his opponent in the 2nd round and also winning an award for the Fight of the Night.

Thanks goes out to all of the supporting gyms, their coaches, the many supporters, our financial contributors, our athletes and coaches and finally the Kombat family for helping make this a great event! Pictures here.

RAVEN Seminar Review

Linda de Los Reyes held another RAVEN female self defense seminar on May 6. This seminar covered such areas as verbal skills, awareness, mind setting against an attack, strikes, dealing with common holds and groundfighting. Remember, the best time to take a self defense course is before something happens to you! Click on this link to read an interesting article on child safety.

Back by popular demand: Mehdi

On April 28 and 29, Muay Thai champion Mehdi Pouroskoui from the KB-1 gym, was on hand to teach a fun filled informative 2 day seminar on Thai boxing. Day 1 involved pad work, usually for 20 minute intervals! Day 2 involved crossfighting; padding up with shin pads and gloves and exchanging combinations back and forth. Both days lasted 3 hours, with constant activity and barely any breaks. Thanks Mehdi for a great seminar and a great workout . We look forward to your return later this year. Pics here.

CJA Results

Congratulations to David Ledoux for winning 1st place and Hamid Sadeghi for winning 3rd place in the CJA Canadian National Tournament.

Savate News

Congrats to Calvin Millar for being voted in as the new President of Savate Ontario, Alek Ceho as Secretary and to Linda de Los Reyes for being re-voted as the Treasurer for Savate Ontario.

Congrats also to the Kombat Savate Team for winning all their matches on April 28, 2007. Great work guys.

Team Bocek Riding High

• Congrats to Mark Bocek for winning his KOTC fight defeating Garrett Davis in the first round by RNC.
• Frank Marques for winning the silver medal at the Pan American Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships.
• Team Bocek for winning the no gi team title at Wrestlefest on March 31, 2007.

Matt Lindland Seminar

The Matt Lindland seminar held on March 10th and 11th was a great seminar.  Matt had some really good clinch and takedown drills for day 1 and on  the 2nd day he had some refreshing new ideas of ground and pound from various positions, sweeps and his popular “slam” choke.  We look forward to training with Matt again in the near future and we wish him good luck in his upcoming fight with Fedor Emelianenko. Click here for pics.

Team Kombat triumphant in Ohio

On March 17 we sent seven competitors to compete in Ohio at the Mansfield Mayhem Amateur Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) show. Team Kombat Arts had an amazing showing, winning 6 out of 7 matches!  Congrats to

• Max Grech won by referee stoppage in the 1st round (TKO)
• Shawn Wilson by Achilles lock in the early 2nd round
• Marcus Grech by referee stoppage in the 2nd round (TKO)
• Sean Gravalos by TKO, the opponent was unwilling to answer the 2nd round
• Sylwester Organka wins with an armbar in the 1st round
• Ross Taylor wins by a guillotine choke in the 1st round
• Marc Strickland unfortunately lost in the 1st round to referee stoppage (TKO).

We are extremely proud of the hard work demonstrated by this team and the dedication to each other and the Kombat Arts.  We look forward to sending another team to Ohio, USA and coming away with great results! Click here for pics and a video of Sly's fight!

Muay Thai test results

Congratulations to Julie Deslariers and Virginie Amyot for passing their Green shirt test in our Muay Thai program.  They did very well and thanks to their coaches who did a great job teaching them.

Mohammed wins again

Congratulations to Mohammed Abedeen, for recently winning his boxing match via split decision over Josh Cameron, who is one of the top ranked boxers at his weight division in boxing.  Great work Mo! 

Fite Nite

Congrats to Walter Brasca a Sergeant with the Toronto Police Services, who really trained hard to win his boxing match at the Fite Nite 07 on January 25, 2007.  Proceeds from this event went to the Regent Park Scholarship Fund. 

Bryan Mackie drops by the Kombat Arts

Bryan Mackie is the Canadian Middleweight Champion who popped by the Kombat Arts during a box off being held at the club.

Savate Promotions and Seminar

Congratulations to the following for passing their Savate testing under Professor Salem Assli:

For their Blue Glove:
Barry Lee
Erin Sidhu

For their Green Glove:
Andre Maitland
Angel Nieto
Noel Garcia
Ramsay Duncan
Tim Lin
Hector Perez

Professor was also in town to hold a really great seminar in Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, Jeet Kune Do concepts, Savate and Kali at the Toronto Kickboxing and Thai Boxing Academy.  Thanks to Scott and Shaun for organizing this seminar and thanks to Warren for being a great host.

Muay Thai Promotions

Over the month of February and the beginning of March there has been a lot of testing for some of the Muay Thai (Thai boxing) students.  Congratulations are in order to the following for doing a great job at passing their tests!

Advanced White:
Linda
Sandra

Green:
Shane Smalldon
David Chramiec
Miodrag Miodrag
Cameron Parsi
Roberto Mastromarini
Cheryl McConnell
Murray McConnell
Michael Nelson
Andrei Epurescu
Derek Cunha
Taka Yoshida
Simo Vrbat
Clarence Morrison

Advanced Green:
Ivan Bailey
James Bailey
Chris Conte
Kevin Nabbie
Edgar Obregon
Justin Patricio-Fernando
Gerry Nguyen
Paul Roldan
Angel Nieto
Aleksander Stojanovski
Andre Maitland
Ryan Seeriram
Noel Garcia
Jeremy Purdy
Olga Cherney
Chris Abate

Red:
Patricia Soltysiak

Brampton Cup Results

Congratulations to Lexton Bates and Daniel Khan for earning a Silver Medal in boxing at the Brampton Cup.

End of Year Muay Thai Testing

Congrats to the following for passing their Muay Thai test on Dec 8, 2006: Tony Psofimis, June Kow, Rob Hoosein, Jorge Vargas, Joshua de Los Santos, Job de Los Santos, Faraz Bajwa, Matteo Di Giovanni