Kickboxing Mad Kids Grading

it was the ProKick kids big day as over 30 junior members all attempted to move up the ladder of Kickboxing excellence onSunday October 12th : All images © Prokick.com. Click here for full terms & conditions.

IT was a weekend of Kickboxing madness at the ProKick HQ in Belfast – whilst it is full steam ahead on Ireland biggest Full-Contact kickboxing event planned for the 1st of December at the Waterfront Hall. Other important events needed attention as well - the ProKick team returned from Dublin last week still on a high and with no rest for the squad along with Belfast’s very own professional world champion Gary Hamilton. The Shankill road man is back in the gym with no respite for this weeks (October 17) Full-Muay Thai bout in Italy – with other members preparing for Switzerland at the end of the month and Scotland in November.

But for the ProKick kids their big day was today as over 30 junior members all attempted to move up the ladder of Kickboxing excellence. Sunday October 12th, saw over 30 kickboxing mad junior and 6 adults who missed the last exam in July take a step up the ladder of excellence as they passed grades from yellow right up to brown belt levels.

A grading is when KickBoxing students, non-contact and contact, are assessed through a series of levels / grades, with the base level being White Belt, through ten levels, finally reaching a Dan grade at black belt, which is equivalent, if you like, to a degree level in KickBoxing. This type of achievement would take, on average, between six and eight years.