I was at the interclub on Sunday and will make the following points:-

Ryn reffed the first bout between Danny and Luke and I don't think anyone could say that this was anything but poure class.

martin reffed the next few and kept the control excellant

liam reffed the next few, including the first junior one with head contact. Th head contact was excessive, with to be honest very little technique, but as soon as Martin saw it he asked Liam to clam it down, which he did try to.

An observation for one of my parents "as soon as the kids start doing head contact the technique goes out of the window"!

This was true, also there were a few gyms there that don;t do thai and they were getting mashed with knees, not ahrd knees but they couldnt deal with them. There only ans was to put the heads down and swing!

I wasn't going to say this, but to be honest, there was some poor technique on show on sunday. If people were getting hurt it was in the main becasue they had no idea how to defend and not because the other person was going in to hard! Some very basic mistakes were being made and I found it a bit shocking.

I know that part of the reason for the late start was because one gym simply decided to pull ut 12 fighters on the morning. All the bouts were prematched, but the pullout resulted in it almost being completey re arranged.

Some instructors need to look at themselves and the caliber of student they were putting out! One gym in particular had no idea how to stand. Iwatched two of their lads warm up and it was unbelievable.

I don't like to say these thing out loud, but feel I needed to as it would appear someone is having a pop when it wasn't needed.

Sandy, you know I was there, before posting something like this, woud it not have been a good idea to ask me.

In addition to me, John Jarvis, Keiran Keddle, Rayn Rudkin, Mark Barlow, Liam Robinson, John Graham and quite a few more other instructors were there also. None of us were moaning

this was Martin's second interclub, and we all know they are not easy to do!