Student of The Year Awards - Christmas 2009 (21/12/09)

Each year at Christmas time we present our ‘Student of the Year Awards’ to students of merit who have proved themselves through hard work and dedication over the last twelve months. These awards are often given to people that have excellent attendance, a great attitude towards their training and often those who are happy to partner up and train well with anyone else within the class. Therefore it gives me great pleasure to announce that this year the awards go to....

* Beginner Student of The Year - James Marcer *

* Advanced Student of The Year - Pete Harris *

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Your Instructor - Joanne Maguire (Formerly Harrison) - 3/7/09

As many of you are aware instructor Joanne Harrison has been engaged to fellow instructor Dan Maguire for over eighteen months, after Jo and Dan married recently she took on her new name of Joanne Maguire. Old news stories within this website will still reference Jo by her maiden name but we thought it would be worthwhile to mention this so as not to confuse any would be new starters who are seeing this site for the first time. If you would like to read more about Jo and Dan's big day please see the News page.

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Tournament Success For Donington Fighters - 17/5/09

A big well done to Pete Harris and James Marcer who both competed in the PKA National Championships 2009 which took place on May 16th. Pete and James train weekly at the Castle Donington class, with Area Instructor Joanne Harrison, and decided to put their skills to the test by taking part in the main event of the PKA's yearly calender, the Nationals. James, yellow belt, won his first round bout but unfortunately lost against a much more experienced fighter in the second round.

However this was enough to earn James a silver medal which was a real boost for the class and a huge personal acheivement. Pete Harris, 28, really out did himself by overcoming all the opposition in his category and went on to take the gold medal, a fantastic performance considering this was his first competition. Again, congratulations to you all and a big thank you to all the spectators who attended in support of the guys on the day.

For a Video of Pete Harris winning his gold medal visit the Gallery page.

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Introduce a Friend and Earn Yourself £25.00

As a special promotion over the next few months we will be running our popular Introduce a Friend scheme within the club, this is usually carried out by handing out to your friends, colleagues or family members one of our refferal slip which you can get from your instructor. The slip will have all the information you will need to pass onto your friends making your life really easy! You write your name on the slips so that we know who introduced who and if they join up you will receive £25.00 cash as a thank you.....It's That Easy!

How much and how soon would I get my referral fee money? If somebody you have referred then decides to join one of our classes, taking out full membership, you will instantly be rewarded with a £25.00 cash referral fee as a thank you for spreading the word.

The more people you introduce the more money we will pay you! If two of your friends sign up, we will pay you £50.00 and so on, one young boy, ten years old, has recently earned himself £125.00 by bringing along five of his school class mates to one of our clubs, If a ten year old can do it so can you!!

Want to earn even more money? If you could do with some extra income, we are looking for people to poster up the local area with our new EMK posters, places like take-aways, fish and chip shops, newsagents, schools, places of work etc. would all be ideal.

How would I be rewarded? We will make a list of the places you have put your posters so that if people join up from seeing your poster we can reward you with £25.00 per person in exactly the same way as the referral system, we always ask how new members heard about us.

But the class I train at is already busy! All of our classes need continual ongoing promotion to help replace the people that leave due to natural drop of rates and personal changes of circumstance, if your class is already pretty busy it is probably because similar promotion has been in place in previous years.