Contemporary Martial Arts Gym

Hey! Tune into CH7 news Tomorrow evening for a special report on Women’s self defence at CMAG 😀

FLASHBACK FRIDAY

A look back at the 1980s and 1990s, when Contemporary Martial Arts was heavily involved in Taekwondo tournaments.

We travelled around Australia and overseas to compete, while also hosting our own tournaments and bringing competitors together from across Northern Australia.

Different times, different equipment, different faces, but the same passion for martial arts and competition.

A little piece of CMAG history.

WHAT A WEEK AT CMAG!
Two major events in just five days.
29 August: CMAG Self Defence Seminar and grading.
3 September: Women’s Self Protection Seminar.
In between, a full week of regular training, sparring, learning and pushing ourselves.
Different people. Different challenges. Different skills.
One thing stays the same: CMAG is about preparing people for the real world.
A huge week 👍

Women's Self-Defence
A huge thank you to every woman who showed up at such short notice to train with us at CMAG's women's self-defence session yesterday.
We got to run reality based self-defence and the energy and commitment from everyone who came along was incredible.
Massive thanks also to:
●Channel 7 for their support.
●Carmen from CLSD for setting the event up for CMAG
●Svetlana from VainishPerks for creating the initiative and collaboration with all stakeholders.

Proud CMAG got the chance to host this and bring genuine reality based self-defence to the women in our community.

Gate crash this morning at CMAG!
Watch and listen closely!
🐕🤣🤣🤣🤣

Can it be REAL and still SAFE🤔.

Boxing contact is progressively scaled. Higher level students can voluntarily use a full face head guard and practise touching the head with the glove, allowing realistic movement, timing and head targeting without deliberately impacting the head.

It requires skill, control and the right mindset. The goal isn't to hurt your training partner. It's to become better at fighting without unnecessary damage.

CMAG CHILDREN’S SELF DEFENCE SEMINAR

No rehearsed attacks. No agreed sequences. No rinse and repeat techniques.

The kids entered the space one at a time with no idea what was coming.

They were confronted, challenged, bullied and sometimes physically attacked by larger leaders wearing protective equipment.

Their job wasn’t to win.

It was to think, use their words, recognise opportunities and escape.

Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn’t. And sometimes the result was pretty funny!

This is self defence training built around decision making, adaptability and dealing with the unexpected.