Students of the Welsh Academy of Martial Arts who train at the YMCA Court Road Barry who also represent TEAM WALES travelled to Birmingham on the 13^th March to enter a Full Contact Show hosted by the renowned

Kash “The Flash” Gill.

10 Winners and 3 Runners Up

Pictured from left to right

Back Row:  Sarah-Jayne Clements, Sonny Richardson, Kurtis Ellis

2^nd Row:   Anthony Brown, Christopher Brown and James Sheekey

3^rd Row:  Steffan Cowdrey, Jamie Rasis

4^th Row:   Kiya Glanville and Kyron Caddick

Missing from photo Gafain Hill and Gareth Davies.

The bouts were fought in a full size boxing ring and all students except for Sonny Richardson and Christopher Brown, had never fought in the ring before.  As they entered the venue the students sighed when the saw the ring which was surrounded by a very large audience awaiting to see them fight. 

First to take part was a very confident Jamie Rasis aged 8 who is usually a points fighter, but did extremely well but was unfortunately beaten by a more experienced full contact fighter. He took runner up.

Next up was Kyron Caddick age 7 who was extremely nervous whilst waiting in the warm up room.  Kyron hesitated before he entered the ring, but took control of his fight, and gave an amazing full contact performance and was commended by the judges, and took 1^st Place.

Gafain Hill age 8 being a novice fighter was next to perform and again put up a brave fight with outstanding technical ability, but the judges decided to give the fight to his opponent, thus taking  runner up.

Along came James Sheekey age 10 with an outstanding performance which was also commended by the judges.  James was so controlled but very fast and performing spinning kicks to the head which kept the audience in suspense right through the fight. James took 1^st Place.

In the ring next was Steffan Cowdrey age 8, again another outstanding performance with Steffan being a little  nervous to begin with but soon took control of his fight taking 1^st Place.

Next Up young Kiya Glanville age 7 a novice fighter,  was again outstanding and injured her opponent who decided to concede with Kiya taking 1^st Place.