2005

GTA Grappling Championships

Kombat Arts once again hosted their GTA Grappling tournament on December 12, and once again due to the efforts of Matmen, Mark Bocek, Kombat volunteers, competitors and fans, it was a great event. Check here later for the results, but everyone did very well, especially those that stepped up to harder skill categories and our beginners. Everyone contributed to Kombat Arts winning the No-Gi Team Award, for the second time in a row. Thanks guys, you made all of us proud!

Boxing victories

Congratulations to our Boxing Team for their latest wins

Pedro Maleki, Gold Medal
Mohammed Abedeem, Gold Medal
Nenad Cvejiv-Silver Medal
Lissette Gonzalez-Bronze Medal

Muay Thai Victories

Congrats to all of our competitors who fought at Siam #1’s Muay Thai event; Caroline Murdoch, Stephan Denis, Jon Lee Kim and Jesse McDougall. Thanks to all of our training partners and instructors for their help. Congrats to Stephan Denis and Chris Salvatore for their unanimous wins at the December 11th, 2005 Siam #1 Muay Thai show. Both of them fought great matches, and Chris did really well for his first fight…looking forward to a great 2006!

RAVEN Self Defense

Linda de los Reyes was on hand again to help some of the participants of Meet Market Adventures with their self defense training. Everyone had a lot of fun with this interactive informative work shop. For more information regarding self defense training, check out RavenSelfDefense.com.

Joslins 2005 Canadian Grappling Championships

Congrats to Brandon Barren’s 2nd place win in the 2005 Joslin Grappling tournament. Thanks to Hector for his great work with Brandon in preparation for this tournament. Big congratulations goes out to Shadi Nader who had a total of 6 gruelling matches and came away victorious winning the belt in his division.

Frank Trigg drops by Kombat Arts

On October 9, Frank Trigg, Mixed Martial Arts veteran was on hand to share his training on conditioning, takedowns, and groundfighting.

Frank Trigg with the KATA Crew

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Stephan Denis victorious

Congratulations to Stephan Denis for his victory in the 1st round with a rear naked choke in the October 1st Ultimate Generational Combat show! Awesome work Stephan, we look forward to future victories.

Nenad wins Gold

Congratulations to Nenad Cvejic for winning the Gold Medal at the Summerhayes Brantford Ontario Tournament. Nenad fought a lot of hard matches to take 1st place in this tournament, making all of us proud.

RAVEN Seminar

Linda de los Reyes from RAVEN (ravenselfdefense.com) recently held a 2 day seminar on self defense. Topics covered strategies, legal ramifications, defending yourself from strikes, various holds / grabs and if you are on the ground.

This seminar was well received by the participants and they truly enjoyed the tactics and techniques that can done under stress and the dynamic scenario training. The time to take a self defense course is before something happens!

SAVIS

On September 22, 2005, Linda de los Reyes was a key note speaker at the SAVIS (Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Services of Halton, savisofhalton.org), Take Back the Night event and march. Linda spoke about the need to reduce the violence in our society, especially against females and the importance of learning self defense for females. Linda made a really good observation that “we are the only species on this planet that does not teach our females how to defend themselves; every other creature, regardless of gender teaches their young how to defend themselves.” This is unfortunately true; hopefully we can do something to change that!

Linda and Sara Lang at SAVIS

Professor Salem Assli in town

Professor Salem Assli was recently in town for a 2 day seminar teaching Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do and Savate, and we are happy to congratulate Andrea Nucci and Roberto Mastromarini for both successfully passing their Green Glove test in Savate Boxe Francaise!

Roberto getting instruction from the Professor

Congratulations to the following students for passing their Muay Thai test

Phase 1
Max Grech
Marcus Grech
Mark Singh
Tommy Nunziato

Phase 2
Sean Heidstra

North American Grapplers Association Champion

Frank Marques traveled to the West Coast and captured the Advanced No-Gi title on September 17, 2005 in Los Angeles California. Frank with only one year of training has been demolishing all the competition. We expect great things from him in the future. Congratulations to Frank and Team Bocek.

Weapons Seminar a Success

WR Mann from realfighting.com was again at our school on September 10 and 11, 2005, sharing his knowledge of edged weapon defense, firearm disarms and some pretty cool scenario based training. Everyone had a great time and we look forward to his next visit.

WR Mann with the KATA Crew

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Grapplers Quest North American Champion

Hard work paid off for Andrew McInnes when he competed at the Grapplers Quest North American Championships on September 10, 2005. Andrew, the lone representative of Team Bocek/Team Kombat, drove 8hrs down to Bayonne, NJ to capture the gold in the gi-division. Congratulations to Nova Uniao member, Yael, for winning the female blue belt division.

Andrew triumphant

Knockout Victory

Congratulations to Mohammed Abedeen for his amazing 1st round knock out win at the Atlas Boxing show on August 20th. We look forward to all of your future victories!

Muay Thai phenoms

Congratulations to Stephan Denis and Jesse MacDougall who won their Muay Thai matches on August 13. Stephan did an amazing job showing good technical skill to win with a convincing unanimous decision. Jesse MacDougall pressed his opponent with a lot of aggressive pressure to win by TKO in the second round. Great job guys; we look forward to your future exploits!

AWSDA Conference

For the 1st time, the American Women’s Self Defense Association held an international conference; and it was held here in Mississauga! Linda de los Reyes and Joey de Los Reyes were on hand to participate in the week’s training modules (August 10th to August 13th) which included such topics as edged weapon defense, dealing with surprise attacks and the human flinch response and post traumatic stress. Congratulations to Calvin Millar for having the courage and fortitude to see this project to the end.

Congratulations to the following for passing their tests this August 15

Muay Thai / STX Phase 1
Arshad Pathare
Wayne D’Sousa
Deline Cheth
Sean Gravalos
Srdjon Matanovic

Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Concepts Phase 1
Philip Sousa
Lee Kim
Navdeep Tinna
John Reyes

Muay Thai / STX Phase 2
David Patry
Lee Kim

Team Kombat rocks Siam

On Sunday July 10, 2005, three Team Kombat members fought at the Siam Muay Thai Open House. Sylwester Ogranka fought an exhilirating match with Siam's top 155lber to a draw. Stephan Denis and Jesse McDougall also fought some tough and exciting matches to a draw.

Team Kombat celebrating

Great job guys and we can't wait to see you in the ring again.

Team Bocek at Grapplers Quest and Copa Atlantica

Mark Bocek, Frank Marques and Andrew McInnes traveled to Virginia to compete the Grapplers Quest Southeast Grappling Championships and Copa Atlantica Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships on July 9 and 10 2005.

Mark Bocek finished 2nd in the No-Gi pro only losing by 2 points to Kurt Pelligrino. In addition, Frank Marques and Andrew McInnes fought equally impressive and won their respective divisions.

In the Gi division, Mark finished second subbing a black belt, and dominating another. Frank won the blue belt division beating the Pan-American silver medalist in the finals and Andrew finished 2nd.

Team Bocek with Nova Uniao members

"It was a great weekend, well worth the 13 hour drive." - Andrew

Congrats gentlemen! Click here for pictures.

Freedom Fight 2005 - Satruday July 9, 2005

Some Team Kombat members made the trip to Hull to witness Freedom Fight 2005. This was a huge event with the focus being Team USA vs Team Canada. Many MMA stars were in attendance and all the matches were exciting. We encourage our members to come out and to these events, because it helps with the cause and support of getting Mixed Martial Arts sanctioned in Ontario.

Freedom Fight 2005

Congrats to Shawn Geris

Shawn just recently competed at the World Police and Fire Games in Quebec. Shawn won a Gold in Freestyle Wrestling and a Bronze in Greco Roman Wrestling. The victories are piling up!

KATA competitors results from the GTA Grapplers Challenge - Saturday June 25, 2005

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NO GI DIVISIONS

Mens Beginner
170 lb. 5th - Tracy Brown
185 lb. 1st - Kim Lee, 5th - Andrew McInnes
205 lb. 4th - Mike Brevetti

Mens Intermediate
155 lb. 1st - Frank Marques, 2nd - Fadi Nader
205 lb. 1st - Marc Strickland, 3rd - Amir Zafawi
225 lb. 3rd - David Beckles

Mens Advanced
155 lb. 4th - Dan Elmy
225 lb. 1st - Shawn Geris

GI DIVISIONS

Mens Beginner
185 lb. 1st - Andrew McInnes

Mens Intermediate
155 lb. 1st - Frank Marques, 2nd - Shyam Tanna, 3rd - Fadi Nader

YOUTH (11-13yrs)
68-75 lb. 2nd - Brandon Barron

JUNIOR (14 - 16yrs)
94-99 lb. 2nd - Brenden MacTavish

Savate and Kali classes added

New classes added! For the summer the following classes have been added: Savate Boxe Francaise on Tuesdays, 6PM to 7PM and Kali, Dog Brothers Martial Arts on Wednesdays, 5:30PM to 6:30 PM.

Thanks W.R. Mann

Special thanks to W.R. Mann the publisher of realfighting.com for taking the time out of his extremely busy schedule to visit our school and share with us a 3 hour workshop on reality based edged weapon workshop. This workshop was really unique in that it combined skills from wrestling, Judo, Kali and combatives to realistically defend against common edged weapon assaults.

We look forward to having W.R. back up to our school in August 2005 for a 2 day seminar on more in-depth training on reality based defenses against edged weapons and various types of firearms; please check back with us for future dates. Also check out W.R’s website, realfghting.com for future articles on our own Kombat Arts, Joey de Los Reyes and Linda de los Reyes’s R.A.V.E.N Self Defense programs!

Kombat Arts representing at the MMA Expo

On May 14 and 15, Joey de Los Reyes and Linda de los Reyes represented the Kombat Arts Training Academy at the first Mixed Martial Arts Expo hosted by Jerry Chopik at the Toronto Convention Center (mixedmartialartsexpo.com). This was an exciting event that boasted 70, 000 sq.ft. of convention space, 20 mats and 50 to 60 seasoned martial arts instructors sharing their wealth of knowledge.

Participants were encouraged to choose from approximately 200 different sessions! Joey was on hand to share his view of Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do which included his workshops on the clinch range, reality based defenses against an edged weapon assault and full contact stick fighting drills. Linda was also there to represent R.A.V.E.N (ravenselfdefense.com) through her workshops on how to really defend yourself on the ground against an attacker.

Next year’s MMA Expo should be even better and we encourage everyone to participate in this great event. Special thanks to Jerry for having the courage to host this great event!

Mark Booth passes JKD Phase 1 testing

Congratulations to Mark Booth for passing his first phase in Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Concepts! Mark worked really hard to achieve this promotion and is already getting ready for his next testing which will include a lot of flight time in the ring getting some flight time sparring. We expect him to do really well and we feel sorry for his sparring partners! Good luck Mark on your future endeavors!

Thanks to our sponsors

A HUGH THANKS to Kim Kehoe and Sam Nastat for sponsoring our Fighters! It takes a lot to train these great athletes and unfortunately sometimes these athletes have to pay their own way to compete in national and international competitions in order to pursue their goals. Again thanks Kim and Sam for being so generous and for helping our young athletes achieve their dreams! If you are interested in sponsoring one of our athletes, please contact Program Director, Joey de Los Reyes at 416 517-4440.

Happy Birthdays

Happy Birthday to Alek Ceho and Rafael Delgado! We hope that you guys will enjoy your birthday to the fullest and we hope that you’re not too sore Raf!

Joey ISSA Certified

The International Sports and Sciences Association (ISSA) now recognizes Joey as “one of their own” and as a Specialist in Martial Arts Conditioning. ISSA was formed in 1988 by a powerful team of leading fitness experts. ISSA is recognized as the World Leader in Fitness Certification. ISSA certifications are recognized globally and their professional credibility is impeccable. Joey put a lot of long hours, hard work and research into accomplishing this goal and he passed the course with flying colors.

To quote from the acceptance letter he received from ISSA last week:

“Your work thus far has been second to none…The extra care you put into your lessons is indicative of the potential care you will undoubtedly give your future students. We feel fortunate to have an individual of your caliber representing ISSA as a Specialist in Martial Arts Conditioning in Mississauga Ontario.”

Patrick Gamboa B.S. MSS
Director of Educational & Technical Support

We are proud! Congrats on your latest achievement!

Shawn the Hulk Geris victorious!

Big Congratulations to Shawn Geris for winning his MMA debut fight at the Extreme Fighting Challenge XI, in Columbus, Ohio. The man also known as the Hulk trained his striking with Joey de Los Reyes and Rafael Delgado and his submissions with Mark Bocek, Claude Patrick and Scott Lewis.

Shawn taking care of business	Shawn and Joey celebrating

Shawn immediately gained the clinch position and took his opponent down off the fence and administered some aggressive ground and pound. The fight momentarily went back to the standing position where Shawn was able to land some solid punches causing his opponent to turn his back. Shawn went back to his wrestling roots, grabbed hold of his opponent's waist and launched him with a high amplitude throw much to the crowd's delight. Once on the ground, Shawn passed guard and took side control. He followed up with some punches to the face and finished the fight with a choke.

Team Bocek flawless at Bravado BJJ Tournament

Another dominating performance for Mark and his team at the Bravado tournament on April 9, 2005. Shyam Tanna and Frank Marques both closed out the intermediate division finishing first and second. Frank went on to fight in the absolute intermediate division (open weight class) and won all his matches. Keep an eye out for Frank, he has been training less than a year and is cleaning up.

Mark, Frank and Shyam victorious!

Mark Bocek dominated his division and went on to sweep the absolute advanced division as well. No points were scored on him and he won 6 of his 8 fights by submission. Mark was given the Most Technical Fighter Award.

Erik Paulson promotions

On January 10, 2005 Erik Paulson was at our school to conduct 2 workshops. Congrats to Joey and Linda for receiving their Coaching Level 2 certification and to John Cadiz for receiving his Coaching Level 1 certification!

More Promotions

Congratulations to Dave Lanyon for achieving his White Gloves in Savate Boxe Francaise and for Marc Mendoza for achieving his Instructorship in Jun Fan Gung Fu and his Red Gloves in Savate Boxe Francaise
Great work guys, the plan is coming together. Also congrats to Congrats to Andrea Nucci and Neal Hoyte for receiving their Blue Gloves in Savate Boxe Francaise.

Dave, Professor Salem Assli and Marc after testing

Youngest Savateur

Congratulations to Roberto Mastromarini, the youngest student to receive his Blue gloves ranking in Savate under Professor Salem Assli! Keep up the good work Roberto! Thanks to Rafael Delgado, Alek Ceho, Marc Mendoza, David Edwards and Linda de los Reyes for working with Roberto and bring his game up.

Roberto showing us how it's done!