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SAT 26 TH APRIL

WEIGHT CLASSES: - -65KG / -75KG / -85KG / -100KG / +100KG & LADIES OPEN CLASS

WEIGH-IN & REGISTRATION: - FRI 25 TH 7PM-8PM AT THE RAMADA HOTEL DOCKLANDS EAST

COMPETITION STARTS 12 NOON SHARP

  PLEASE NOTE NO ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 11.30 AM / NO JEANS / SPORTS SHOES MUST BE WORN

PRE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE: EMAIL NEIL ON natural@armwrestling.co.uk BEFORE 20/04/08

PLUS PROFESSIONAL SUPERMATCH FIGHTCARD SUNDAY 27TH APRIL FEATURING INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS

Abdus and Ryan Finnerty are two of MKAF's biggest hopefuls at this years British Amateur Championships at the end of April. The competition will be held at Britians biggest sports combat show, SENI on Sat 26th April. We will be uping the training and preperation for thes guys and the others who will be stepping up to the centre stage at Britians biggest amateur competition!

Good luck to all the guys from MKAF competing at the 2008 British Amateur's! Training will be alot more intense over the coming weeks!

Kind regards,

Stephen Kirlew

MKAF, President

'How to Armwrestle' short film is now complete!

Click here to give your feedback on the film.

Video Jug, a short film production company has contacted MKAF and would like our assistance to make a 'How To Armwrestle' short film.  The film will go through the basic techniques of armwrestling, and tournament preperation of one of the crew who will enter the New Years Cup on Jan 26th!  He will be trained in the techniques on Tuesday 8th Jan and will be give a training schedule to go away and follow.  I will coach him and check up on his progress over the phone and he will then enter the competition.  I think it will great for exposure for armwrestling and MKAF. 

If you want to be in this short film that will be seen by thousands, come along on Tuesday 8th January 2008!  It doesn't matter if you're from MKAF or not!  Be there!

The video will be used on our site as a demo to armwrestling for beginners and could be a great help! 

TUESDAY 8th JAN 2008!! BE THERE!

2007 has been a great year for MKAF!  We've seen up and coming armwrestlers who were considered as tomorrow’s champions, compete…and beat the best armwrestlers in the UK, we’ve purchased 3 new armwrestling tables, we've been crowned as the best club in the UK, Steve Kirlew won the best armwrestler award, and even met the Queen!!!  Now that's a successful year!!!
First of all we saw Dean Scarsbrook shockingly defeat Steve Rogers, bringing Steve back from a loosing position!! Steve Rogers has been the most dominant armwrestler in any weight class for years which makes this win even more impressive! Dean has only been armwrestling for just over 12 months and has now been given a shot at Steve’s title in April 2008! We’ll be bringing some more gold home soon enough!
We then saw Scott Ferguson destroying the former European bronze medallist Ian Stones in a 5:1 challenge match victory!!! Scott has also only been armwrestling for just over 12 months and is already competitive with the best armrmwrestlers in the UK! We’ve also seen Scott convincingly beat Ted Wilson this year who is the current European bronze medallist!!! Now that’s impressive!
MKAF will take a 2 week break for Christmas and new years and will be back on Tuesday 8th Jan! My birthday's on the 9th so go easy on me the first day back!
I'll be training all throughout those 2 weeks at my house so if anyone's interested in working off a few mince pies, I have a table, weights and bars so just let me know and i'll show you how to train to be the best!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

MKAF

FOR THE FULL STORY CLICK HERE!

Here's an unforgetable match between two of the best armwrestlers in the world!  This is from the Zloty Cup in Warsaw, Poland!  Click on the image to view the video!

The Zloty Cup in Poland is one of the best competitions anywhere in the world! It attracts some of the best and biggest names i armwrestling from all over the world and this year is as big as ever. This is east V west at its very best! I went to this competition a couple of years ago and it was the best competition for atmosphere and level of competition I've ever seen! It was truly amazing watching John Brzenk as a middle weight battle against some of the top names in the world and win. He only lost to Alexi Voevoda who is 122kg and John was 90kg at the time!

Good luck to everyone who is competing from the UK; Neil Pickup, Ted Wilson, Barry Knowles, Paul Maiden and anyone else I haven't mentioned!

Dave Devoto, founding president of United States ArmSports, has announced that WAF is invited to participate in the FILA World Games next year as a demonstration sport. That is undoubtly a big step for the sport of armwrestling to reach the Olympics in the future!
The FILA World Games will be held in Durres, Albania the 18-20th of September 2008.