PMA Kickboxing

🥋 GTI National Open – Cheltenham 🥋
What a fantastic day for our team at the GTI National Open in Cheltenham! 🇬🇧

We had 10 competitors step onto the mats today, showing incredible courage, determination and fighting spirit. We’re incredibly proud to come away with 2 Gold 🥇 and 6 Silver 🥈 medals!

🏆 Gold
🥇 Logan
🥇 Lewis

🥈 Silver
🥈 Joseph
🥈 Vincent
🥈 Kelsey
🥈 Prisha
🥈 Lucas
🥈 Ginge

A special mention to Joe and Sam, who both took part today and showed great courage and determination throughout. You should both be incredibly proud of yourselves! 👏

A huge thank you to our fantastic coaches, Mr Thorne-Griffith and Miss Roux-Nel, for their time, support and guidance today. 🙌

Well done to every single one of our competitors — you represented the club brilliantly! 💪🥋

Mr Newman, chief instructor of Phoenix, is running the Swindon Half Marathon today and raising money for Whizz Kidz, a charity supporting young wheelchair users.

You can support by donating here:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/john-newman-whizz-kidz

You can also read his story about why he's running and how he's overcome challenges to get this far on the fundraising page.

And if you're out supporting the half marathon today, look out for him in a bright yellow Whizz Kidz t-shirt 💛

Best of luck to all of our members taking part in the GTI National Open Championships in Cheltenham today.

Enjoy the experience.

Mr Newman and his son, Wesley, with their picture on the front of the Adver - for the right reason 😂

Story about why he's running Swindon Half Marathon next week is on page 4.

Please sponsor to support the charity Whizz Kidz
https://www.justgiving.com/page/john-newman-whizz-kidz

Thank you to everyone who has already sponsored, your contributions are massively appreciated.

We are back open this evening 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Children's martial arts | 5:10pm

Adult Kickboxing | 6:00pm

Teens/Adults Taekwondo | 7:00pm

Black belts additional training | 7:50pm

A new week, a new challenge 🥋

An exciting new timetable with extra training options for a new school year.

Comes into effect after bank holiday, Tuesday 1st September.

We are closed this Bank Holiday weekend.

No classes from Friday 28th until Monday 31st.

All classes back on Tuesday 1st September.

Enjoy you Bank Holiday weekend.

For the next 2 weeks, all members are welcome to wear their choice of football kit, whether it's supporting your country in the world cup, or any football team/club ⚽

Update regarding classes in the heat:

Tonight:
🟡Warriors - CANCELLED
🔴Kickboxing - On as normal at 6pm
🔵Legends - Combined with Kickboxing at 6pm
⚫Additional 30 mins for Legends & Black Belts after this class if there are enough and not got too hot.

Wednesday & Thursday classes are CANCELLED due to the red weather warning ⚠️

Thank you for your understanding, the safety of all our members is the priority.

With temperatures forecast to rise significantly this week, we are closely monitoring the weather and the conditions inside our studio.

If we feel the environment is no longer safe for exercise, we may need to cancel some classes at short notice.

The safety and wellbeing of our students will always come first. Additional drinks breaks and modifications to classes will be made, as appropriate.

Please keep an eye on:
• Your email inbox (including your junk folder)
• The Phoenix Martial Arts Private Members Group on Facebook
• Our Private Members WhatsApp Groups
• The Phoenix Martial Arts Facebook & Instagram pages

If any classes are cancelled, we will let everyone know as early as possible.

Thank you for your understanding and support while we manage the extreme weather safely.